PCI Non Compliance Fee: An Expensive Reminder
Processors use PCI non-compliance fees as an expensive monthly reminder to prompt businesses to become PCI compliant.
Processors use PCI non-compliance fees as an expensive monthly reminder to prompt businesses to become PCI compliant.
Is a PCI fee just another junk credit card processing fee, or is it a legitimate charge? Actually, it’s both.
Contrary to popular belief, PIN debit transactions incur more than just a flat fee, often making signature debit transactions cheaper to process. Understanding the ins and outs of debit card transaction fees will ensure you’re not losing hard-earned money pennies at a time.
A pos wats or pos wat fee is a communication fee that is charged each time a business’s credit card equipment dials the processor’s toll-free 800 number to get or give information.
More often than not, credit card transaction fees contribute more to cost than credit card processing rates.
The term basis point is thrown around a lot in the credit card processing industry, but many sales people fail to realize that most people aren’t quite sure exactly what a basis point is, or what it means in terms of credit card processing fees.
A retrieval fee is charged when a customer or the customer’s issuing bank requests a copy of a sales draft in order to substantiate a transaction. This is called a retrieval request, and most credit card processors charge a nominal retrieval fee to process a request.
In 2012, Visa added a Transaction Integrity Fee to its list of charges for accepting a Visa credit card at a business.