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What you can find on Promissory.ca

Promissory.ca has four kinds of page, and the search box above indexes all of them.

Loan category pages

Ten pages covering the main kinds of Canadian consumer credit: personal loans, instalment loans, payday loans, bad credit loans, car loans, business loans, debt consolidation, mortgages, home equity lines of credit, and emergency loans. Each explains what the product is, who it suits, what lenders look at, and what it costs.

Guides

111 longer articles that answer a single question in depth — how to get a personal loan, how the mortgage stress test works, what a payday loan costs in each province, how to rebuild damaged credit, how CRA tax instalments work, and what makes a promissory note legally binding, among others. Every guide is written for a Canadian reader and cites the official source behind each factual claim.

Calculators

16 tools that run entirely in your browser: a loan payment calculator, an APR calculator that folds fees into the true cost, a total-cost-of-credit calculator, a payday loan cost calculator using the federal $14 per $100 cap, a mortgage payment and affordability calculator that applies the OSFI stress test, a HELOC and home equity calculator, and a debt consolidation comparison. Nothing you type is transmitted to a server.

Reference data

Short, factual pages that state a single regulated figure with its publisher, source link and the date it was retrieved: the criminal rate of interest, the payday loan cost cap, payday rules by province, CRA tax instalment due dates, mortgage qualification rules, minimum down payments, and the Interest Act disclosure rule. Where no official figure exists, the page links to the source instead of estimating.

City and province pages

Local pages for 721 Canadian communities across all thirteen provinces and territories. Each city page sets out the provincial rules that apply to borrowers there, the loan categories available, what a payday loan costs, and links to nearby communities.