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Shell Federal Credit Union

CC Acct Opening Disclosure W Intro

The filed agreement discloses a purchase APR of 17.99%. Below: every term the document states, what it leaves out, and how the cost compares with the rest of the database.

Before you read the numbers.

The purchase rate was read from a row the document did not label explicitly, so it carries more uncertainty than the other figures here.

Disclosed rates and fees

Every figure below was read from this issuer's filed agreement. Anything the filing does not state is left out of this table rather than shown as zero.

Terms as disclosed in the filed agreement for CC Acct Opening Disclosure W Intro
Purchase APR17.99%
Late payment feeup to $25
Foreign transaction fee1%
Cash advance fee$0
Balance transfer fee$0
Grace period21 days

Analysis

On the record for CC Acct Opening Disclosure W Intro: a 17.99% purchase APR, filed by Shell Federal Credit Union. That purchase rate ranks near the 28th percentile across this corpus of 4,587 filings.

What the agreement puts on the record

Shell Federal Credit Union submitted the terms for CC Acct Opening Disclosure W Intro to the CFPB's agreement database; this is what they contain. The filing runs three pages.

Terms captured from the document include a purchase rate, a late payment maximum, a foreign transaction fee and a grace period. It is silent on a cash advance rate, a balance transfer rate and a penalty rate.

Note that the purchase APR row in this table carries no explicit label in the filing, which introduces some ambiguity about what it covers.

How the purchase rate compares

Measured against every other filing on the site, 17.99% is about the 28th percentile for purchase APR; it undercuts the typical filing.

The cost of carrying a balance

Put $5,000 on the card and never reduce it, and twelve months of interest at the disclosed purchase rate comes to approximately $985.

The corpus median purchase rate is 21.99%, which on the same $5,000 would cost about $1,229 a year. This filing saves roughly $244 annually against that benchmark.

These figures are arithmetic on the disclosed rate, not a quote: they assume the balance is never reduced, ignore any payments, and take no account of fees charged separately.

Where the fees are

For cash advances the filing discloses a cash advance fee of $0.

A balance transfer costs a flat $0 up front. The filing does not separately state the rate applied to transferred balances.

Foreign transactions attract 1%. On $5,000 of overseas spending that is $50, charged on top of whatever exchange rate applies.

When a payment is late

The maximum late fee is $25 — roughly the 32nd percentile of the late fee ceilings disclosed across this index.

The grace period

21 days is the disclosed grace period for purchases — the interval in which paying in full costs nothing. With a corpus median of 25 days, this window is narrower than the norm.

What is outside the disclosure

This page cannot tell you an annual fee and penalty pricing, because the filing's disclosure table as read does not contain them.

It is worth being explicit about scope: these filings record terms and pricing. They say nothing about rewards programmes, cardholder benefits, promotional offers or who the issuer will approve, and this review does not speculate about any of it.

The issuer's other agreements

There are 6 filings from Shell Federal Credit Union in this index.

Reading the agreement yourself

The filed PDF is linked from this page and runs three pages. It is the authority for every figure summarised above; where this page and the document disagree, the document is right.

In short

The pricing here is middling by the standards of the index — 17.99% on purchases is near enough to typical.

The source document

This page is a reading of one document: the cardholder agreement Shell Federal Credit Union filed with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Where the two disagree, the filing is correct and this page is wrong.

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