Cost Plus Pricing - Credit Card Processing and Merchant Account
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Interchange Plus Pricing

Transparent pricing and no locked-in contracts

Interchange plus pricing, also known as cost-plus, is the most merchant-friendly pricing method used in payment processing. Cost-plus discloses the exact margin payment processors make for each credit card transaction. 

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We aim for the lowest payment processing fees ever. We pass through bank fees at wholesale with a transparent markup. The table below shows our percentage markup after interchange and bank fees.

Monthly Credit Card Sales​

In-Person Payments​Online or Keyed Payments​

$15,000 to $25,000

0.38% and $0.08

0.48% and $0.23

$25,001 to $50,000

0.33% and $0.06

0.43% and $0.18

$50,001 to $100,000

0.28% and $0.06

0.38% and $0.17

$100,001 to $250,000

0.23% and $0.05

0.33% and $0.14

$250,001 to $1,000,000

0.18% and $0.05

0.23% and $0.12

$1,000,001 to $5,000,000

0.10% and $0.04

0.20% and $0.08

$5,000,001+

0.08% and $0.03

0.12% and $0.06

  • No cancellation fee
  • Free customer support
  • No setup fees
  • No negotiating needed

Other pricing plans are available

Cost Plus Pricing FAQ

Let us help you make an informed decision. We’ve put together a list of our most commonly asked questions about Cost Plus pricing.
Interchange plus (aka “cost plus”) pricing is a straightforward way to price. If you have cost plus pricing, it is more transparent because it is much more difficult to have hidden fees. In cost plus pricing, processors take all the bank fees, card brand fees etc, pass them straight through to the merchant, then add a markup (i.e 20%) for their fees. So, if you were being charged 20% using interchange pricing, you would say, I am being charged “cost plus 20”, which in general is a pretty good deal. You can check out all the interchange rates as they are published by Visa and MasterCard.

Overall, the best way to tell what you are being charged is to take all your fees and divide that by how much you processed in credit card sales. This is known as your effective rate. Read more about the effective rate in payments.

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The fundamental flaw with other traditional pricing models is that they hide the interchange costs and allows processing companies to charge more of a markup. By consolidating a wide variety of rates into a smaller number of tiers, processors can essentially “round up” to the highest rate in each tier. While this may make your monthly statement a lot easier to read, it also means you’ll be paying higher rates for a lot of transactions – and you probably won’t be able to tell which transactions are being charged abnormally high rates.

By showing you the actual interchange costs, interchange-plus pricing allows you to more easily see what the markup is. This in turn encourages processors to set more reasonable markups. This transparency helps ensure you are getting the best rates.
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