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A payment surcharge, also known as checkout fee, is an extra fee charged by a merchant when receiving a payment by cheque, credit card, charge card, debit card or an e-money account, [1] but not cash, which at least covers the cost to the merchant of accepting that means of payment, such as the merchant service fee imposed by a credit card company. [2]
For one, the business has to notify the appropriate credit card associations and clearly disclose that it charges a fee for the use of a credit card. Credit card surcharges can’t exceed the cost ...
Credit card surcharges are becoming more common, but they’re not legal in every state.
A part of the settlement that allows merchants to charge fees to customers paying via credit card in order to recoup swipe fees took effect on January 27, 2013. Debit cards and transactions in the ten states that prohibit credit-card surcharges will not be affected.
The Durbin amendment also gave the Federal Reserve the power to regulate debit card interchange fees, and on December 16, 2010, the Fed proposed a maximum interchange fee of 12 cents per debit card transaction, [9] which CardHub.com estimated would cost large banks $14 billion annually. [10] On June 29, 2011, the Fed issued its final rule ...
Banks, card processors and processing networks like Visa and Mastercard each charge a fee to process credit card transactions. The sum of those fees is called the “swipe fee,” which usually ...
AOL pays extra expenses whenever we process a payment from a checking account, so the fee allows us to continue offering you the option to pay your monthly bill without using a credit card. If you want to avoid paying this fee, you can learn how to change your payment method or go directly to My Account and choose a different payment option ...
MarketWatch reported that Visa and Mastercard will lower published credit-card interchange fees by four basis points in the U.S. for at least three years. The two companies also won’t raise ...