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Twig Transfer Card — Worked Woodland Examples

Carry the twig, not the interest. The model moves £3,000 from a 24.9% card, charges the 3% fee up front and compares two years of zero interest with two years of leaving the balance where it was.

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Demo rate card0% on balance transfers for 24 months with a 3% fee, then 26.9% illustrative APR (variable)

The pound values and percentages on this page are invented AcornBank product terms, chosen for a realistic bank-style example. They are not current market offers, an invitation to deposit or invest money or a forecast of what a real bank will pay.

Product detailDemo terms
Account type0% balance transfer credit card
Rate, reward or charge0% on balance transfers for 24 months with a 3% fee, then 26.9% illustrative APR (variable)
Illustrative credit limit£1,000.00 to £10,000.00
Access0% on balance transfers for 24 months with a 3% transfer fee, then 26.9% APR (variable); new purchases are not interest-free
Eligibility in the scenarioAn adult story applicant transferring a balance from a different fictional lender within 60 days
FeesNo model account fee
What ends the offerA missed or late payment in the model
CurrencyGBP (£), used solely for fictional calculations

Try your own numbers

Change the amounts to see what Twig Transfer Card would do in the story. Fictional figures, no application, no advice.

Monthly payment over 12 months£113.51£162.09 interest at 26.9% APR
Transfer fee at 3%
£36.00Then 0% for 24 months.

Twig Transfer Card in charts

The same fictional model as the tables below, drawn rather than written. Hover or focus a mark for its value, or open the table view.

Paying off £1,200 at the standard rate26.9% APR, equal payments over 12 months
  • Balance
  • Interest so far
£0£500£1,000£1,500StartM2M4M6M8M10M12Start · Balance: £1,200M1 · Balance: £1,111M2 · Balance: £1,019M3 · Balance: £926.24M4 · Balance: £831.30M5 · Balance: £734.46M6 · Balance: £635.68M7 · Balance: £534.92M8 · Balance: £432.14M9 · Balance: £327.29M10 · Balance: £220.34M11 · Balance: £111.25M12 · Balance: £0.00£0.00Start · Interest so far: £0.00M1 · Interest so far: £24.06M2 · Interest so far: £46.33M3 · Interest so far: £66.77M4 · Interest so far: £85.34M5 · Interest so far: £102.01M6 · Interest so far: £116.74M7 · Interest so far: £129.49M8 · Interest so far: £140.22M9 · Interest so far: £148.88M10 · Interest so far: £155.44M11 · Interest so far: £159.86M12 · Interest so far: £162.09£162.09

Interest rounded monthly; eleven equal payments and an adjusted final payment.

View as a table
PointBalanceInterest so far
Start£1,200£0.00
M1£1,111£24.06
M2£1,019£46.33
M3£926.24£66.77
M4£831.30£85.34
M5£734.46£102.01
M6£635.68£116.74
M7£534.92£129.49
M8£432.14£140.22
M9£327.29£148.88
M10£220.34£155.44
M11£111.25£159.86
M12£0.00£162.09
Moving £3,000 from a 24.9% cardTotal paid over 24 months
  • Fee
  • Interest
£0£200£400£600£800Twig Transfer Card · Fee: £90.00£90.00Twig Transfer Card · Interest: £0.00£0.00Twig TransferCardLeaving it where it is · Fee: £0.00£0.00Leaving it where it is · Interest: £750.94£750.94Leaving it where itis

Stacked cost above the £3,000 balance itself, which is repaid in both cases.

View as a table
CategoryFeeInterest
Twig Transfer Card£90.00£0.00
Leaving it where it is£0.00£750.94

Moving £3,000.00 from a 24.9% card

ItemTwig Transfer CardLeaving it where it is
Balance£3,000.00£3,000.00
Transfer fee£90.00£0.00
Interest over 24 months£0.00£750.94
Monthly payment to clear in 24 months£128.75£156.29
Total paid£3,090.00£3,750.94

Transfer assumptions: the fee is added to the balance on day one, every payment is on time, nothing new is spent on either card, and the old card’s 24.9% APR is held constant. New purchases on this card are not interest-free.

If £1,200.00 is borrowed at the standard rate after any promotional period

MonthPaymentInterest chargedBalance after payment
1£113.51£24.06£1,110.55
2£113.51£22.27£1,019.31
3£113.51£20.44£926.24
4£113.51£18.57£831.30
5£113.51£16.67£734.46
6£113.51£14.73£635.68
7£113.51£12.75£534.92
8£113.51£10.73£432.14
9£113.51£8.66£327.29
10£113.51£6.56£220.34
11£113.51£4.42£111.25
12£113.48£2.23£0.00

Borrowing assumptions: one £1,200.00 opening balance, no new spending, no fees or cashback, and 26.9% APR held constant. The equivalent monthly rate is (1 + 0.26899999999999996)^(1/12) − 1. Interest is rounded monthly; eleven equal payments are followed by an adjusted final payment. Total repaid: £1,362.09; total interest: £162.09. This chosen repayment plan is not a minimum-payment schedule. Reward and offer tables describe separate situations from this one.

Twig Transfer Card is 0% balance transfer credit card in the Credit cards range, used for moving an expensive balance somewhere it stops growing. Its live rate card, summary and worked tables sit above this text and update whenever the product record changes.

Follow the numbers, not just the headline

The tables show the opening amount, time period and result for this product type. Savings figures are before tax unless the wrapper is tax-free; investment figures are scenarios, not forecasts; borrowing figures separate payments, interest and outstanding balance. A displayed result is conditional on its assumptions, not a guarantee. Keep unrelated examples separate rather than adding their balances together.

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What the example does not promise

All figures are invented and shown to make the demo useful to read and crawl. No money is held, no application is available, and no deposit-protection, regulatory or tax-wrapper status is claimed. Calculations do not account for personal tax, inflation or unstated changes in rates. The fictional bank manager can guarantee only that the next paragraph contains no real acorns.

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