How Much Can You Save on Your Monthly Rates with Sage 100 Credit Card Processing?
You've undoubtedly heard a lot about Sage 100 credit card processing and how it enables easy processing of Level 3 payments that require enhanced data. You may not realize precisely how much you can save on your interchange rates. Find out exactly how much you can expect to save when you integrate payments with your Sage 100 financial management system.
In case you missed it in this previous post about Sage 100 credit card processing here’s a short summary of what it means to process Level 3 payments.
The term Level 3 refers to the ‘line-item details’ you must transmit when a payment card is presented for purchase. Transaction details will include purchased items, quantities, and other merchant-specific order information. This information is made available when the purchaser uses any card issued for a specific type of business purchase by a business or government agency such as government-issued cards, business or corporate purchasing cards.
Generally, government agencies and some businesses that also use purchasing cards will mandate Level 3 data to monitor their employees’ spending. A fast-growing segment of payment types, you’ll want to be prepared when those types of cards are presented or risk expensive downgrades.
For the business taking the card, processing transactions by including level 3 data will result in lower costs than level 1 data, resulting in a lower overall cost. Visa’s interchange rate reimbursement table specifically displays that B2B payments are charged better pricing.
Now let’s take a close look at Visa’s rates and calculate exactly how much you can save with Level 3 processing:
For example, a transaction that qualifies for Commercial Level 3 would be charged 1.90% + $0.10 which is .60% cheaper than the rate for a Commercial Level 2 transaction which is shown as 2.50% + $0.10.
In scenarios where you accept a commercial credit card and don’t provide level 3 data, you’ll pay .80% more because the Commercial Card Not Present category will cost you 2.70% + $0.10 compared to Level 3.
The single most expensive fee category, and one you’ll want to avoid, is the Commercial Standard Interchange Reimbursement Fee category. If you accept a commercial credit card, don’t provide level 2 or 3 data, and also fail to pass minimum requirements, you can expect to pay a whopping 1.05% more than you could have paid with Level 3.
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