Oklahoma Late Fee Calculator

Work out interest on an overdue B2B invoice under Oklahoma law. The legal default rate — what applies when the contract is silent — is 6%, and the statute is quoted verbatim below. All math runs locally in your browser.

6% legal default rate (contract silent)
Max written B2B rate
10% constitutional ceiling as the residual rule; statutes authorize higher rates for various licensed/consumer lending regimes.
Cap regime
Hard cap — 10% (constitutional)
Statute
15 O.S. § 266; Okla. Const. art. XIV, § 2
Verified
how we verify · changelog

Legal rate absent a contract rate; liquidated sums earn interest from the day the right to recover vested.

Pre-filled with Oklahoma's statutory default (6%) — the rate that applies when no rate was agreed. If your contract states a different rate, enter that instead.

What Oklahoma law actually says

[...] in the absence of legislation fixing maximum rates of interest, all contracts for a greater rate of interest than ten percent(10%) per annum shall be deemed usurious; provided, further, that in contracts where no rate of interest is agreed upon, the rate shall not exceed six percent (6%) per annum.
— Okla. Const. art. XIV, § 2. Read it at the official source · row verified 2026-08-21.

Quoted verbatim from the linked official source — not our paraphrase. How we source and re-check every row is documented in the data methodology.

Maximum late fee in Oklahoma — written B2B contracts

Hard cap 10% (constitutional).

10%/yr constitutional ceiling is the residual rule for ordinary B2B contracts; no blanket business exemption. Higher rates need a specific statute (licensed/consumer regimes).

Basis: Okla. Const. art. XIV §2; 15 O.S. §266. Compare all 51 jurisdictions on the full state table and the cap-regime map.

B2B invoices only — not rent, not consumer debt

Everything on this page is about business-to-business invoices. Residential rent late fees live in Oklahoma's landlord-tenant law and consumer credit has separate, stricter rules — two different bodies of law. The distinction is explained in B2B invoice late fees vs. residential rent.

Use this data

Oklahoma's row — rate, cap, citation, verbatim quote, verification date — is part of our open 51-jurisdiction dataset: CSV · JSON (CC BY 4.0, cite myinvoicetemplate.com). Set late-fee terms on your next invoice with the free invoice generator, or state them clearly using the wording guidance in the payment terms guide.

Oklahoma late fee FAQ

Can I charge late fees on overdue invoices in Oklahoma?

Yes — on business-to-business invoices. If your contract or invoice states a late-fee rate, that rate governs (subject to the cap rules below). If nothing was agreed: 6%. Legal rate absent a contract rate; liquidated sums earn interest from the day the right to recover vested. Statute: 15 O.S. § 266; Okla. Const. art. XIV, § 2, verified 2026-08-21. Consumer and rent debts follow separate laws.

What is the maximum late fee I can charge in Oklahoma?

For a written B2B contract: 10% constitutional ceiling as the residual rule; statutes authorize higher rates for various licensed/consumer lending regimes. Basis: Okla. Const. art. XIV §2; 15 O.S. §266. The full cap analysis is in the section above; this covers business-to-business deals only — consumer credit has stricter separate caps.

What interest applies if my contract doesn't mention late fees in Oklahoma?

The statutory default rate of 6%. Legal rate absent a contract rate; liquidated sums earn interest from the day the right to recover vested. Statute: 15 O.S. § 266; Okla. Const. art. XIV, § 2 (verbatim quote on this page, verified 2026-08-21).

Does this cover rent, apartment, or consumer late fees in Oklahoma?

No. This page covers business-to-business invoices only. Residential rent late fees are governed by Oklahoma's landlord-tenant law, and consumer credit for personal, family, or household purposes has its own stricter caps and disclosure rules. Those are different statutes than the commercial-interest law cited here.

Where does this data come from, and when was it verified?

Every figure on this page comes from our 51-jurisdiction dataset: each row researched against the controlling statute or the state's official current-rate page, independently re-checked, and stamped with its own verification date — Oklahoma's row was last verified 2026-08-21. The operative legal text is quoted verbatim on this page with a link to the official source, the methodology is public, every verification pass is logged in the changelog, and the full dataset is downloadable (CC BY 4.0).