Loan Manager – Latest Posts
Total Flexibility in your Payment Schedules
Loan servicing made easy Completely adapt a payment schedule to your borrower’s needs and real life such as irregular payments, seasonal cashflow, interest-only, principal-only, partial, late, unpaid payments, lump sum, automatic fees, negative balances in intercompany loans, interest rate changes, residual value…
How can I see interest that accrued on unpaid payments?
Question: I have a question regarding interest accruing on unpaid payments. We have a franchise that is working on their cash flow right now and we wanted to give them an updated statement on what is owed to us for their franchise loan. How can I see interest that accrued on unpaid payments? So for […]
How to change the Windows Short date format
Margill prefers a date format that contains 4 digits for the year. This is especially important for calculations that may (if these still are out there!) predate the year 2000. How to change the Windows Short date format: Windows 10 gives you various ways to change the short date format (Control Panel or Settings) 1) […]
Can we email an amortization report to each borrower when interest rates change?
Margill Loan Manager – Can we email an amortization report to each borrower when interest rates change? Yes this can be done. First, I guess you updated the interest rates though the Main window with Ctrl Alt Shift i. Ideally you have a custom field that identifies the loans that are tied to the specific […]
Early payoff – How to do this in Margill Loan Manager
Q: How to do an early payoff in Margill Loan Manager A: For example, the loan term was originally for 5 years or 60 months (so end date was in June 2020). The borrower calls you, the creditor, and wishes to payoff his/her loan early, on October 12, 2018. Original payment schedule: I first […]
Loan Servicing with Excel? Pitfalls and alternatives
Loan Servicing with Excel? Pitfalls and Alternatives I’m a great fan of Excel. I think it is the most important and useful software ever developed. I first started using spreadsheets many years ago with Lotus 123 which was a great tool that lost the spreadsheet war to Microsoft. Excel can be used in so many […]
Margill Loan Manager: Is there an audit trail that can be printed to show transactions / changes to records on a daily basis?
Q: Is there an audit trail that can be printed to show transactions / changes to records on a daily basis? A: Yes very easily. Go to the Main Margill window, select all the loans (probably only Active loans) , Tools > Various > Display the history of changes for selected Records. You can then […]
How to obtain the daily interest amount (per diem) in Margill Loan Manager
Q: How to obtain the daily interest amount (per diem) in Margill Loan Manager? A: This can be added very easily through a simple Mathematical Equation. Go to Reports > Equation Management and click on Name the Equation Select the two required fields (balance and interest rate) from the various themes on the left Add […]