Every year, businesses pay approximately $180 billion in credit card processing fees. These fees are convoluted, confusing, obscure, and often misleading. Credit card companies make money off cardholders in a wide range of ways and their income has been experiencing solid growth for years. They charge for
Interest Income
Interchange Fees
Cash Advance Fees
Annual Fees
Penalty Fees
Enhancement Income
Credit card company made 163 billion of these Incomes in 2016 from Businesses & Individuals. This money comes from the bank account of business who happens to be your client or whom you work for. In this session, we will look behind the curtain of the credit card processing industry and show you how the card brands and banks operate, common red flags that could complicate your fee structure, and ways that you can reduce or eliminate unfair or inflated processing fees within your merchant account. In this FREE CPE WEBINAR we shall cover:
History of Credit Card and credit card processing industry.
Credit card industry: Understanding the structure.
Understanding the fee structure and who benefits from these fees.
How to mitigate fees without changing the credit card processor.
What is surcharging? And is it legal? Benefits and Drawbacks of credit card surcharging.
How surcharging should be done? DIY or basic methods that can help you reduce your credit card fees.
Merchant account audits – the higher saving approach.
How Merchant account audit proves to be beneficial for different Industries?
Involvement of different entities in Merchant Account Audits.
Understanding of Ideal Audit Process.
The working process of Verisave to reduce credit card surcharges.
RECOMMENDED FOR :
CPA or Accountants or Tax Professionals : This webinar will give you insights on advising your clients on how to significantly reduce your credit processing fees and will help you in being a valued advisor.
CFO, Staff Accountants, Director of Finance, Controller : you are always expected to improve bottom-line of your company, this webinar will help you in understanding step by step how you can really reduce your company’s credit processing fees up to 50% and that too without switch processor.
Learning Objectives
To attain the knowledge of the credit card processing industry
To identify various steps of reading your merchant statement
To identify where your surcharging fees is going
To identify various steps you can take to reduce your fees
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About Presenter
Jeremy Layton, BA (Business Finance)
Advisor, Verisave
Jeremy Layton started Verisave back in 2001 with the service of identifying and collecting overpayments made by their customers to their suppliers. In 2010 Jeremy noticed that most of his customers were paying a lot of money to process credit card payments. After digging a little deeper, he found that most of his customers were actually paying much more than they needed to and Jeremy was determined to help them reduce these fees. Over the past 10 years Jeremy has become an expert in all things relating to the credit card processing industry. In fact, Verisave saved its customers over $30 million on credit card processing fees.
Verisave is a seasoned auditing company that helps organizations identify and eliminate excess merchant processing fees. Since 2002, the Verisave team has served clients throughout the United States in a variety of industries by providing clarity and transparency in a complicated area of business. Our team of processing industry experts brings experience and knowledge to the table with one goal–to identify and implement measurable savings for your business.
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Testimonial
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Veronica Burba , CPA(
Jan 13th 2020
good insights provided on credit card surcharging issues. Also, the content was presented in such a way that it was easy to understand.
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Mary Hayden , CPA(
May 5th, 2020
Very informative content! Learned the tactics to save the processing fees which will be beneficial for me and my clients.
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Ann Dominick , CPA(
Apr 15th, 2020
Thank you for sharing the valuable information on the credit card processing industry. Learned a lot about the fee structure of credit card and ways to eliminate inflated processing fees
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Paul Streett , Bookkeeper
Dec 14th, 2020
it taught alot of new things that i didn't know before taking the course
