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Your Credit Score

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Your Credit Score

At L-Pesa, we have developed a credit score system to enable those who pay back their loans on time access to more funds when they need them. We use this score to differentiate our high-risk customers from our low-risk ones. If you are a low-risk customer and are able to increase your credit score consistently, then you are able to take advantage of a range of value added services. Our credit score system is based on a weekly repayment rate. When you start using our service with your first loan, your credit score is at zero. Each time that you complete a payment on time, your credit score goes up by one point. You will have five weeks to complete the payments for any loan and you end up with credit score of 5.

Once you have completed the payments, you are eligible for a higher loan. For each week that you complete the payment on time, you receive another credit score of one.

The credit levels you can achieve are as follows:

  • $1 First-Time Customer – Credit Score of 0 – 5
  • $10 to $100 Seasoned Customer – Credit Score of 13 – 196
  • Above $100 Preferred Customer – Credit Score of 206 and above.

When you reach a credit score of 100 or more, you become a preferred customer and are eligible for a range of benefits from L-Pesa.

Customer StatusCredit ScoreLoan amountDaysWeeks
Seasonal Customer0$1639
Seasonal Customer0$2639
Seasonal Customer0$3639
Seasonal Customer0$4639
Seasonal Customer0$5639
Seasonal Customer6$6639
Seasonal Customer8$7639
Seasonal Customer10$8639
Seasonal Customer12$9639
Seasonal Customer14$10639
Seasonal Customer16$12.5639
Seasonal Customer18$15639
Seasonal Customer20$17.5639
Seasonal Customer25$20639
Seasonal Customer29$25639
Seasonal Customer33$30639
Seasonal Customer50$40639
Gold Customer55$50639
Seasonal Customer60$60639
Seasonal Customer60$70639
Seasonal Customer65$80639
Seasonal Customer70$90639
Seasonal Customer75$100639
Seasonal Customer75$150639
Seasonal Customer75$200639
Seasonal Customer75$250639
Seasonal Customer75$300639
Seasonal Customer75$350639
Seasonal Customer75$400639
Seasonal Customer75$450639
Seasonal Customer75$500639
Seasonal Customer75$600639
Seasonal Customer75$700639
Preferred Customer150$800639
Preferred Customer175$900639
Preferred Customer200$1000639
Preferred Customer225$1500639
Preferred Customer250$2000639
Preferred Customer250$2500639
Preferred Customer250$3000639

Defaulting on your loan

If you default on your repayments, or you make a repayment late, you will lose one credit point for each week. Should you miss or delay 10 repayments in a row, your credit score will automatically change to zero, and you will have to wait a one full year to be able to build your credit score from scratch and only after you clean your previous loan.