{"id":572,"date":"2016-03-09T08:31:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T16:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/undebt.it\/blog\/?p=572"},"modified":"2021-03-08T18:53:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T02:53:54","slug":"march-2016-updates-fixes-debt-snowball-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undebt.it\/blog\/march-2016-updates-fixes-debt-snowball-table\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2016 Update: Fixes for the debt snowball table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just activated some changes to the debt snowball table today that I&#8217;ve been working on for quite a while now. There are two main areas that were addressed:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The current month (month #1 on the table) has never accounted for payments already made for the month. Now you can see what you&#8217;ve already paid and if there is any more due on the debt for the month. For example, if you have a debt that you need to pay $500 for the month and you make a $300 payment at the beginning of the month, you&#8217;ll see the $300 payment and also that you still need to pay the other $200. It should be much more accurate overall.<\/li>\n<li>Deferred payments are now supported. This is useful if you have a student loan that you don&#8217;t currently pay anything on. Just set the debts&#8217; due date to the point in the future where your payments will begin and it will be correct on the debt snowball table. The debt account doesn&#8217;t have to be a student loan for this to work, you can use it on any type of debt. For example, if you don&#8217;t a payment due next month on a loan, you can set the due date for the month after. <em><em>One important thing to note is that the deferred amounts will be added to your debt snowball and reallocated to other accounts if needed.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_579\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/undebt.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/deferred_payments.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-579\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-579\" class=\"wp-image-579 size-full\" title=\"deferred payments\" src=\"http:\/\/undebt.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/deferred_payments.png\" alt=\"deferred payments\" width=\"740\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/undebt.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/deferred_payments.png 740w, https:\/\/undebt.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/deferred_payments-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deferred Payments: Note how the total payments stay the same over the course of time. The money not being paid on the student loan is automatically re-allocated to other debts.<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Even though I&#8217;ve tested these changes out, there are so many different payoff scenarios that there could be problems. Just let me know if you run into anything odd and I&#8217;ll check it out. <del>Also the excel export doesn&#8217;t have these new changes added yet &#8211; I hope to have them added in within a week or two<\/del>. As always, thanks for spreading the word about the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just activated some changes to the debt snowball table today that I&#8217;ve been working on for quite a while now. 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