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What is Interchange-Plus Pricing?

It’s the fairest model out there. Interchange-plus pricing works by adding a constant, flat margin on top of Interchange. So typically, Interchange-plus pricing models will also be written in the two component format, with a percentage fee and per-transaction fee above Interchange. This allows merchant service providers to price their accounts fairly, [...]

What is Interchange?

What is Interchange?It’s the underlying cost of a credit card sale. There are many entities involved whenever you process a credit card transaction. First, there is the acquiring bank, who Dharma represents. Dharma and other MSPs are referred to as Merchant Service Providers. As you will discover merchant services are varied, but the [...]

PIN Debit Annual Fees

When you accept PIN debit transactions, you’re processing over different networks than what Visa/Mastercard/AMEX use. These PIN networks are managed separately, and charge annual fees for their usage to MSPs like Dharma. Dharma always passes these fees through at cost. Each PIN debit network has a different annual fee, ranging between $8 and [...]