An amount that is not the stated number of payments
period-multiple-mismatchon by defaultJapanese / English
An amount said to be 12 monthly payments that is not 12 times the monthly one
Example
How to fix
Check which of the base amount, the count and the amount is right, and correct the others. If the amount has a discount or tax in it, say so.
Why it matters
When a premium table says "Annually (12 monthly payments) $298", readers trust the figure without working it out. It goes wrong when the monthly premium is changed and the annual line is not. When a count is stated as a number of a base ("12 monthly payments", "12 times the monthly premium") with one amount beside it, the amount is compared with that many of the base stated before it ("Monthly: $24"). An annual premium is often cheaper than twelve monthly ones, so an annual amount that does not say it is twelve monthly payments is never compared.
What it does not flag
An annual amount that does not say it is a number of payments ("Annually $280"), a range of counts ("11 to 12 payments"), a sentence or row with two amounts, a statement with a discount, tax, "about" or "each", and a base label with two amounts are not compared. A multiple before any base is compared only when the document states one base. Amounts in different currencies are not compared. A table that names the monthly amount only in its column heading is not read.
Turning it off or relaxing it
Technical details
- Layer
- L3
- Status
- stable
- Severity
- warning
- Languages
- Japanese and English
- Suited to
- business, technical, blog, legal, docs, academic, literature, speech
Levels
Set a level for this rule under rules in chaff.yaml. With nothing set, it runs at the level its genre gives it (see By genre below).
| strict | error |
|---|---|
| normal | warning |
| relaxed | info |
This rule has no limit to count to. A level sets how a finding is marked: relaxed keeps the finding and marks it a step lower.
By genre
- Runs by default in
- technical/spec, technical/readme, blog/tech, blog/essay, blog/owned-media, business/proposal, business/report, business/email, business/press-release, business/meeting-notes, legal/contract, legal/statute, legal/judgment, legal/patent, docs/manual, docs/faq, docs/glossary, academic/paper, speech/address, speech/transcript
- Turned off by the genre in
- literature/fiction, literature/essay, literature/poetry, literature/play
Message
{amount} is not {count} × the {label} amount ({base}), though it says {multiple}
This page is built from the rule's definition file:packages/chaff/rules/period-multiple-mismatch.yaml