01 · free
Your own savings
Fully backed by money you already have. Borrowing against it costs nothing and cannot produce a loss.
01 Members
Every other lender writes you a loan and hopes you keep needing one. Clear is built so your third year costs less than your first, because by then you are borrowing against your own savings.
Your deposit is your share.
02 Draw order
You do not choose a product. You spend, and the line takes from the cheapest thing backing you before it touches anything expensive.
01 · free
Fully backed by money you already have. Borrowing against it costs nothing and cannot produce a loss.
02 · lowest paid rate
Held at a discount to what they are worth today. You keep the position and it matures in full.
03 · mid
Sized on the income landing in your accounts. It grows as your income holds and plans clear on time.
04 · highest
Genuinely unsecured, opt-in, and small on purpose. The tier that replaces a payday loan.
Repayment runs the other way.
The most expensive part unwinds first, so the numbers work in your favour without you managing it.
Every rate is on the screen where you take it.
You see it before you take it. Cost accrues on what you still owe, so clearing early always costs less, and nothing compounds.
03 Term plans
One limit across every shop you use, so what you owe in total is a number you can always see.
Financing at a Clear shop. Needs a linked bank account. Paid by QR code, never a card swipe.
Cash to your account rather than a spending line. Unlocks after six clean cycles. This is the personal loan, without the personal loan.
The Equity-Lease Participation Agreement. Unlocks at 15,000 equity credits, and it is backed by the house itself, not by your limit.
Each rung asks for something real.
You can see the locked ones and what they would cost from your first day.
You can hold several plans. You cannot hold several limits.
Five stores usually means five ceilings and a hidden total. Here there is one ceiling: with $2,000, four $500 plans fit. $2,500 does not.
The ELPA is the Equity-Lease Participation Agreement. It puts the house in your name while the land underneath stays common.
04 You pick the split
Spreading it further costs more, and the screen says so in dollars rather than hiding it in a rate.
At the counter you pick a split. Later that week, or three cycles in, you can pick a different one.
Balance at Mike’s Tire
$940.00
4 payments of $246.75
2% a cycle on what you still owe
Clearing early always costs less.
05 Savings
Every dollar you save is matched one-for-one in equity credits, and raises your credit limit by a dollar.
1:1
Matched in equity credits, dollar for dollar
36 mo
The match runs for the first thirty-six months of saving
$1,500
The most that is matched in any one month
~30 days
Before credits vest — the number tracks money that arrived and stayed
The gate
15,000
credits unlocks your Equity-Lease Participation Agreement and your Clear Deed. Most first-cohort members are expected to reach it in twelve to eighteen months.
Drawing on savings
A pause, not a penalty.
New credits stop accruing while you are drawn against. The ones you have already earned are never taken back, and the app says so.
While you live there
You borrow, not withdraw.
Contributions are not withdrawable while you live in a Clear home. They come out on conversion or exit.
What we do not do
No late fees
ever
No compounding
the balance never grows on its own
No credit-score pull
to approve a first plan
No shopping app
competing with the shops you use
06 The cycle
A cycle closes, the balance rebalances, and you are told where you stand in one line.
The only state that asks anything of you.
Nothing is required. Clearing early still costs less.
Nothing is owed. But drawing on your savings pauses your progress toward a home, which is the reason to top it back up.
The one that says everything is at zero.
Nothing is hidden behind a statement.
Nothing accrues while you are not looking, and there is no document to open later to find out what changed.
Top off is not repay.
In the third state nothing is owed, but progress is paused. The verb is top off because you are spending your own money, not servicing a debt.
07 The comparison
Including the part where they beat us.
Klarna’s best outcome for you
You owenothing.
Then you are back where you started, and their app is trying to sell you something else.
Ours
You ownsomething.
The waterfall is designed to move you from borrowing to spending your own money.
Klarna is a single tap at checkout. Your first Clear transaction asks for a membership and a linked account, and takes about three minutes.
You sign up once, not once per shop. Every later purchase anywhere in the network is just your existing line.