This unsecured term loan calculator amortizes a business-purpose installment inside the published program box: $50,000–$500,000, terms of 3, 5, or 7 years, and an illustration rate inside Approx. 6%–18%. It is built for operators who need a known monthly payment — working capital, a merchant cash advance payoff, a restaurant buildout, a partner buyout, or the personal equity layer on a real estate close.
Jaken Finance Group originates hard money, bridge, and DSCR loans on investment property. This calculator sizes a separate product: an unsecured note referred to Preferred Funding Group. Property math still belongs on the DSCR calculator and the second-position DSCR calculator. Program narrative lives on unsecured term loans.
Unsecured term loan calculator
Model a 50,000–500,000 business-purpose term loan on a 3, 5, or 7-year amortizing schedule. Compare the payment to a merchant cash advance. Results are estimates — not a loan offer. Pricing is quoted per file by Preferred Funding Group.
Monthly payment
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Fully amortizing
Total interest
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Over the full term
Total repaid
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Principal + interest
Effective cost
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Interest ÷ principal
Program checklist
Term loan vs merchant cash advance
| Term loan | MCA | |
|---|---|---|
| Amount funded | — | — |
| Estimated monthly outflow | — | — |
| Total extra cost | — | — |
What the outputs mean
Monthly payment is fully amortizing principal and interest. There is no interest-only toggle on this product because the published terms are installment terms. If you need interest-only carry, you are usually looking at a bridge loan on real estate, not this note.
Total repaid is payment × number of months. Total interest is that figure minus principal. Effective cost is interest divided by principal, so you can compare a 5-year 12% note (interest is a fraction of principal spread over 60 months) to a merchant cash advance whose factor is concentrated in a handful of months.
The program checklist turns green when amount sits in the $50,000–$500,000 box, term is 3, 5, or 7 years, and the modeled rate is inside the illustration band. Green is not an approval. It means the scenario is eligible to discuss. Preferred Funding Group still quotes the file.
How the payment is calculated
The formula is standard amortizing P&I. Monthly rate r is the annual illustration rate divided by 12. Number of payments n is years × 12. Payment is principal × r × (1+r)^n ÷ ((1+r)^n − 1). At a 0% rate the tool would divide principal by n; you will not see 0% on an unsecured business-purpose note.
A $150,000 loan at 12% for 5 years is about $3,337 per month. Total repaid is about $200,200. Interest is about $50,200, or roughly 33% of principal if you hold to term. Shorten to 3 years and the payment climbs while interest falls. Lengthen to 7 years and the payment drops while interest rises. That is the only trade-off this product offers: time versus total dollars. Pick the term your operating statement can service, then prepay if cash recovers.
Move the rate. The same $150,000 over 5 years at 8% is about $3,041 a month. At 16% it is about $3,649. The Approx. 6%–18% band exists because unsecured pricing is file-driven — credit, income, use of funds, and existing obligations. Treat the slider as a sensitivity table. Do not screenshot 6% and call it your rate.
Merchant cash advance compare — remaining balance only
Leave MCA amount at zero if you are not replacing an advance. When you are, the important number is what you still owe, not what was originally funded. A 1.42 factor on $120,000 means $170,400 to repay. If $90,000 of that is already drafted, you are refinancing the leftover, not the advertisement.
Extra MCA cost is (amount × factor) − amount. Implied monthly outflow is total repay divided by the months you enter. Compare that to term-loan interest and term-loan P&I. If extra MCA cost left is smaller than term-loan interest, finishing the advance is usually the cheaper path. If drafts are $21,000 a month and the term-loan P&I is $2,760, the refinance is about survival and payroll, not about winning a basis-point contest.
The FTC staff perspective on small-business financing describes merchant cash advances as factor products with daily or weekly collection. This calculator does not compute an MCA APR — converting a factor into APR requires assumptions about term that the contract may not state. It compares dollars out the door, which is what hits the operating account.
Walk the refinance decision in prose on refinance a merchant cash advance.
Presets and when to use each
Working capital is a generic $150,000 / 5-year / 12% illustration. Use it for inventory, deposits, or a tax payment. Stress the rate up 2–3 points before you decide the payment is comfortable.
Refinance an MCA loads $120,000 against a 1.42 factor over 8 months. Replace those MCA fields with your payoff letter. Then read the compare note: the tool will tell you if the term loan’s extra cost is lower, and by about how much the monthly outflow drops.
Restaurant buildout loads $175,000 at 12.5% over 5 years — a kitchen and dining-room package that is too mixed for a single equipment invoice. Pair it with unsecured loans for restaurants and, if you have 45–90 days, SBA restaurant loans. If the invoice is one serial-numbered asset, use the equipment financing stack at 6%–14% instead.
Partner buyout loads $250,000 over 7 years at 11.5%. The longer term is there because buyouts are large relative to monthly draws. Confirm that the departing partner’s compensation coming off the books actually exceeds the new payment. Narrative: business acquisition and partner buyout. Larger goodwill purchases still belong on SBA 7(a) acquisition loans.
CRE down payment loads $100,000 at 11% over 5 years — a typical equity gap on a DSCR purchase or a 10% hard-money remainder. Remember: this payment does not sit inside DSCR. Rent covers the property loan. You cover this note. Walk that stack on real estate down payment funding. Use-case cash-flow tools: DSCR down payment, fix-and-flip down payment, commercial down payment, and Airbnb furniture financing.
Startup working capital loads $75,000 at an illustrative 14% over 5 years. Use it to stress a payment that has to come from personal income before the company prints revenue. Narrative: unsecured loans for startups. SBA remains the cheaper long path on SBA startup loans.
Cannabis operations loads $200,000 at 13% over 5 years for licensed payroll, security, or opening cash — not plant inventory and not the building. Keep real estate on cannabis property bridge loans. Ops narrative: unsecured loans for cannabis businesses.
Equipment gap loads $85,000 at 12% over 5 years for the slice a UCC lender will not title. Price a serial-numbered dealer invoice on equipment financing at 6%–14% first. Contrast: unsecured vs equipment financing.
The upside this calculator is trying to show
Financing a defined business need can raise the odds that the underlying project happens on time. A known installment lets you keep collateral free for the loan that should sit on an asset. Replacing daily MCA drafts with a monthly P&I can turn a cash-timing crisis into a budget line. Closing a partner buyout in 3–10 days can be worth more than waiting on a cheaper 7(a) that funds after the partner has already lawyered up.
The calculator will also show you when financing is a bad idea. If total interest on a 7-year note exceeds the profit on the project, do not take the note. If an MCA is two months from done, do not refinance it. If a rental’s DSCR is already 1.02, adding a personal $2,174 payment does not show up in the DSCR ratio — it shows up in your checking account. Run the DSCR calculator next to this one so you see both layers.
What this tool will not do
It will not pull credit, will not generate a payoff letter, and will not reserve funds. It will not mix this product’s Approx. 6%–18% band with Jaken Finance Group hard money at 8.99%–13.5% or DSCR at 5.75%–10.5%. Those ranges are different programs on purpose. It will not invent a FICO floor — none is published for this referral product.
Consumer mortgage rules such as Ability-to-Repay describe owner-occupied home credit. This calculator is for business-purpose unsecured capital. If the use is a house you live in, stop and use a consumer lender.
After you have a payment you can live with
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If a building is part of the plan, pick a property-loan scenario with Jaken Finance Group in parallel so the deed loan and the unsecured note are not trying to be the same file.
Calculator outputs are educational estimates only, not a loan offer or a payoff quote. Rates, terms, and approval are quoted per file by Preferred Funding Group and can change. Jaken Finance Group originates non-owner-occupied investment property loans. Unsecured term-loan pre-qualification is a referral and is separate from Jaken Finance Group property-loan origination. Funding speed of 3–10 business days assumes a complete file.