Interchange, assessments and markup — what each one costs, and who actually keeps it.
FEES & PRICING
Payment fees and pricing, explained
Interchange, assessments, markup and effective rates — what each cost actually is, who keeps it, and how to work out what you are really paying.
Calculators
Payment processing fee calculator
See what card processing costs you each month, and what a lower rate would be worth.
Effective rate calculator
Divide your total fees by your total volume — the only number that compares cleanly across processors.
Payment fee impact calculator
A 2.9% + 30¢ rate is not 2.9%. See what it actually costs at your average transaction size.
How much to charge to receive an exact amount
Enter the amount you want to land in your account. Get the amount to invoice.
Chargeback cost calculator
Not the fee — the profit. See how many clean sales it takes to earn one chargeback back.
Failed payment revenue calculator
Nobody cancelled. The card just stopped working. Size the leak and what fixing it is worth.
Guides
Send more information with a B2B transaction and pay materially less interchange.
The retry-and-remind process that recovers failed subscription payments.
The service that fixes expired cards before they ever fail.
The customers you lose without anyone deciding to leave.
A forced reversal by the customer's bank — and why it costs far more than the sale.
The warning shot before a chargeback — and your best chance to stop one.
The qualified/mid/non-qualified model, and the reason it persists.
The transparent pricing model — and the volume at which it starts to win.
One number for every card — what that simplicity costs, and when it is worth paying.
The largest fee in every card payment, and the one nobody can discount.
The one number that compares cleanly between processors.
Six changes that actually move the number, in the order worth trying them.
