Northwest Payment Brokers

Glossary

What is markup?

The part of your card fee that goes to your processor. It's the only part anyone can negotiate.

Every pricing plan is a different way of showing, or hiding, the markup. Interchange-plus shows it on its own line. Flat-rate and tiered plans roll it into one number.

For example

Two processors quote you. The bank fees are the same in both offers, so the whole difference between them is markup.

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