Social Media Ideas for Credit Card Surcharging

Surcharging Doesn’t Always Save: Here’s What Every Dental Manager Needs to Know

  Credit card surcharging programs are increasingly being marketed to dental practices as a simple way to offset rising processing costs. On the surface, the pitch is appealing: pa...

Credit card fees are a cost of doing business

Surcharges for credit cards, kitchen staff and tips are obscuring the true cost of a restaurant meal. Read the story on VTDigger here: Credit card fees are a cost of doing busines...

Another State Grapples with Debit Fee Surcharges

As merchants and cardholders continue to pass the hot potato of surcharges back and forth, Louisiana is on the verge of imposing stiff penalties on retailers that add additional ch...

Capping Credit Card Fees Threatens To Hurt Consumers and Small Businesses

Lawmakers can’t change the fact that expenses must be offset somewhere.

Whine Wednesday: Undisclosed Credit Card Surcharges In Denmark

When I was in Denmark in early May, I realized after a while that sometimes transaction amounts were slightly off, and I wondered if the merchant had been able to sneak in a Dynami...

Louisiana Act 751 ends debit card surcharges starting Aug. 1

MONROE, La. (KTVE/KARD) — Louisiana Act 751 will make it illegal for businesses to charge a surcharge on debit card purchases, effective Aug. 1. Gov. Landry signed the bill into la...

How high-end credit card perks are hurting shoppers who pay in cash

This article is part of “Unaffordable America,” a series examining rising economic inequality in the U.S. and the policies that drive it. At the Tiger Fuel gas station and conve...

Merchants blast credit union rule

Retail and restaurant groups say federal credit union regulators imposed an “unlawful” rule preempting an Illinois law that curbs payment card fees.

CE Webinar – Surcharge Strategies That Work: Making an Informed Decision for Your Practice

AADOM Members log in HERE to watch the recording and accrue CEU. Approved for 1 CEU for AADOM members. AADOM is an AGD PACE Approved Provider (can be used towards AADOM Designation...

Looking Beyond the Statement Fee at the Real Cost of Payment Processing

Last month, a judge granted preliminary approval to the two-decade-long Visa-Mastercard $38-billion...

Looking Beyond the Statement Fee at the Real Cost of Payment Processing (Dimitri Akhrin)

Last month, a judge granted preliminary approval to the two-decade-long Visa-Mastercard $38-billion...

Measure prohibiting debit, gift-card transaction fees passes Senate

The Senate passed a bill on June 18, sponsored by Senate Majority Leader M. Teresa Ruiz and Senator James Beach, to amend current law and prohibit businesses from imposing a surcha...

Tax or Fee? Retailer Considerations for the Rising Wave of ‘Delivery’ Charges

Is BNPL financing raising prices?

Buy now, pay later financing impacts consumer prices as merchants pass along processing costs, a consumer advocate report asserts.

VILLERE: Louisiana Living is More Expensive…Time to Pass the Credit Card Competition Act

With so much focus on inflation and affordability, it’s worth asking whether we’re overlooking some of the structural costs that quietly drive up prices. Swipe fees are one of thos...

Visa, Mastercard fend off fee foes

Despite the passage of state legislation and a federal court settlement aimed at taming credit and debit card fees, the card networks and their issuers prevailed in the first half...

Visa and MasterCard set one swipe rate at the top for nearly every card in nearly every American shop — which means your...

Visa and Mastercard publish a swipe-fee rate card that every issuing bank in America charges at the same rate — which is why your bank competes for you with points and lounge acces...

Legislation to ban interchange fees hits barriers in two states

Colorado’s governor vetoed one bill. And similar legislation in Illinois faces a permanent injunction.

How Debit Card Users Subsidize Credit Card Rewards

Every swipe of a rewards credit card generates perks for the cardholder, but researchers say the costs of those rewards are shared more broadly. Data from Harvard Business School f...

Robinhood Gold Card Adding 3% Foreign Transaction Fee for New Cardholders

Australia’s merchant card fee bill rose $175 million in a year

New research from Money.com.au, conducted by Primara Research reveals Australian merchants paid $175 million more in card fees over the last year.

UP extends peak surcharges to all Southern California shippers

The fee, which sources say is $300 per container, applies only after a shipper exceeds its contractual weekly allotment and is reset every week, so there are ways to avoid the char...

UP extends peak surcharges to all Southern California shippers

The fee, which sources say is $300 per container, applies only after a shipper exceeds its contractual weekly allotment and is reset every week, so there are ways to avoid the char...

Future of Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act Remains Uncertain