Holiday Trading - What are the Holiday Trading repayment periods and what options are there? (for UK only)

What repayment options are there?

For clients who are on post-approval:

• Fixed repayment period is the only available option. 

For clients who are on pre-approval:

• Fixed repayment period
• Dynamic repayment period

How do the repayment period options work?

Fixed repayment period

When an employee submits an application, they need to pay it off in a specific time frame. For example, if a client chooses a fixed repayment period of 2 months, then their employees will need to always repay their applications for the upcoming 2 months after they’ve submitted their application.

In addition to this, clients can give their employees the option to choose the period of time they'd like to repay their application(s) for. Clients can select up to four repayment periods for their employees.

Dynamic repayment period

When an employee submits an application, they need to pay it off by the date the client selected for all their employees, no matter if employees apply 5 months or 5 days before this date (the date the client set up for all). For example:

Why the dynamic repayment period is not available when clients are on post-approval?

Taking this same example, when Mary submits her application on 01 March, she will agree with the Variation of Contract in which the agreed number of installments will be 5 months (from 01 March to 19 August), and the amount of money she will pay will be spread across this 5 months. The calculations are done automatically by the product when it's set to the pre-approval process. If the product is on post-approval there is no control over the approval. For example, there is no guarantee for Mary's application that it will be reviewed and approved on 01 March. The approver can do it on 01 April. Then Mary would have agreed to have her deductions spread across 5 months, but because the approver was late to approve the application, there are only 4 months left until the date Mary should have her application fully repaid. That is why the dynamic repayment period is only available for clients on pre-approval. 

How to set up the repayment periods

1. Log into the Reward Manager
2. Select the SmartPay tab
3. Select Administer
4. Select the Products tab
5. In Holiday Trading, select the green button Manage
6. See the fourth option here, called Payment Period