A cash-on-instalments personal or fixed repayments loan provides you with your loan amount upfront in cash, deposited to your nominated bank account. You then repay the loan amount plus interest in equal fixed monthly instalments over the agreed repayment period (the loan tenure or loan tenor). In some cases the loan balance may be recorded as a balance owing on a credit card, so that when you make loan instalment repayments you free up some of the card’s credit limit so that it is available for making purchases.