Different Credit Card Merchant Fees, How To Lower Credit Card Merchant Fees, Defend Against Merchant Processing Services
Everything You Need to Know About Visa's Account Name Inquiry Fee Have you seen the Visa Account Name Inquiry Fee on your monthly merchant processing statement? Wondering what it is and if you should be charged for it? Visa doubled this particular pass-through fee...
Worldpay Price Increase, Fees, and Updates (2025) Worldpay from FIS commonly sends notices to customers about new processing rate increases, changes, and noteworthy updates. Here at Merchant Cost Consulting, we try our best to stay up to date with changes from...
How to Spot Padded Assessments Assessment fees are just part of accepting credit credits. They’re imposed by the card networks and passed through to merchants on monthly statements. Unfortunately, some payment processors inflate or “pad” these assessment fees....
Visa Issuer Never Approve Fee: Cost, Meaning, and How to Avoid If you’re reviewing your monthly processing statement and stumble upon a Visa Never Approve Fee, you might be wondering what this means. While the charges might be minimal, it’s important to get this...
Visa ISA Fee Explained (International Service Assessment) Wondering why some Visa transactions are more expensive to process than others? There are lots of different factors that impact your Visa interchange rates—including the specific type of Visa card and the...
CardConnect Fees and Updates For Payment Processing Our team here at Merchant Cost Consulting is always monitoring the latest interchange fees from payment processors and card networks industry-wide. Read on to learn more about CardConnect’s fees, rate increases,...
Toast Credit Card Processing - Rate Increases and Updates (2025) Toast is a restaurant POS (point-of-sale) system. In addition to its POS software, Toast also provides payment processing as an integrated solution with its platform. If you're using Toast for payment...
American Express Assessment Fees (2024) In addition to the interchange fees charged by American Express for each transaction, there are other fees imposed at the card network level by Amex. Also known as pass-through fees, assessments are paid directly to American...
EVO Payments Interchange Rates & Fee Updates (2025) If you’re using EVO Payments to process credit and debit card transactions, you need to read and bookmark this resource. We’ll keep you updated with all of the latest interchange rates, updates, and relevant...
What is the Visa Base II Transmission Fee? Making sense of the assessment fees on your monthly credit card processing statement can be daunting for any business—especially since the name of each assessment isn’t always self explanatory. What’s even more confusing...
