About

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CashOtter is a referral service. We collect one loan request and share it with our lender-network partner, where one or more lenders review it. We are not a lender, not a direct lender, and not a marketplace.

See your payment before anyone sees your request

Pick an amount and the payment, cost of borrowing and total fill in immediately.

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No fee to submit. No obligation. Applying does not affect your FICO® Score.

Who we are

A referral service built around one number

Most sites in this category want eleven answers and a Social Security number before they will say what a loan costs. CashOtter works the other way round: pick an amount and the payment, the APR and the total appear before you type anything about yourself.

The figures shown are examples, not offers. Your lender discloses the actual APR, payment schedule and total repayment before you accept an offer.

The lender

Who actually lends the money

The lender

Loans are made by the lender named in your loan agreement, under its own lending license.

Support for your loan is set by the lender and shown in your loan agreement.

Our relationship with them

CashOtter is not a lender and does not make loans or credit decisions. Your request is shared with our lender-network partner, one or more lenders in the network review it, and you may be sent on to the lender that can continue. Each lender decides for itself whether to make you an offer and on what terms.

CashOtter is paid by our lender-network partner for advertising and referral services when we send a request. This costs you nothing. Your request is shared with that partner, one or more lenders in its network may review it, and you may be sent on to the lender that can continue.

Money

How CashOtter is paid

CashOtter charges you nothing. Submitting a request is free and carries no obligation. We may receive compensation from lenders or other advertising partners for referral or marketing services.

We are paid by our lender-network partner for requests we send. That is a commercial incentive to send requests, which is why we are equally explicit about who this product is wrong for.

What we promise

Five things, and you can hold us to them

  • The full cost up front

    Payment, APR and total repayment before the form, not after it.

  • Clear about who sees your request

    Your request is shared with our lender-network partner, one or more lenders in the network review it, and you may be sent on to the lender that can continue.

  • No fee to you, ever

    Submitting a request is free and carries no obligation.

  • Honest 'who this isn't for'

    If a nonprofit credit counselor or a payment plan with the biller is the better call, we say so.

  • A Do Not Sell link that works today

    Not a dead link, not a form that goes nowhere.

Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

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No fee to submit. No obligation. Applying does not affect your FICO® Score.