Payment Processing Solutions for Utility Providers
Visa, MasterCard, and Discover offer incredibly low interchange rates to businesses that provide utility services. These special rates are called the utility interchange rates, and they can help to reduce your monthly credit card processing fees by up to 70%.
Does My Business Qualify
If your business provides ANY of the following services, you're eligible for a Utilities merchant account:
Waste Disposal & Waste Management Sevices
Residential Trash Collection
Container Rentals
Roll-off Services
Water / Gas / Electric Distribution or Generation Services
Sanitary Utility Services
Integrations
What Are The Utility Interchange Rates
The most important thing to understand about a Utilities merchant account is that you do not pay a percentage discount rate on the credit and debit card payments you process. Instead, you only pay a flat, per transaction fee.
Example: If your business processes a Visa consumer credit card payment in the amount of $500.00, you will only pay a $0.75 transaction fee on that sale.
Typically you would pay a discount rate of between 1.5% to 2.5% plus a transaction fee. But with a Utilities merchant account, there are NO percentage rates; you only pay the flat, per transaction fees listed below:
Visa
Debit-$0.65
Credit - $0.75
Rewards - $0.75
Signature - $0.75
Commercial - $1.50
MasterCard
Debit - $0.45
Credit - $0.65
Rewards - $0.75
World - $0.75
Commercial - $1.50
Discover
Debit - $0.75
Credit - $0.75
Rewards - $.75
Commercial - $1.50
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