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Card Fee Field Guide

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About the Card Fee Field Guide

The Card Fee Field Guide is published by Avendo, a credit card processing platform for e-commerce businesses.

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Who publishes this guide, and why?

Avendo publishes this guide to explain, in plain words, how credit card processing fees are calculated and how businesses can lower them. It is one of a small number of websites Avendo publishes. Avendo's main website is avendo.tech.

What Avendo does

Platform

Routing each sale to the best available rate

Avendo connects an e-commerce checkout to multiple payment processors and automatically routes each transaction to the processor offering the best available rate in real time. Merchants get clearer pricing and processing reports.

It works with existing checkout pages, so stores do not need to rebuild how customers pay.

Who and how

Small businesses first, through enterprise

Avendo serves e-commerce businesses from small businesses through enterprise organizations, with small businesses as its first focus.

Avendo says it does not bill or charge merchants directly; its compensation is handled between Avendo and payment processors. It works exclusively with PCI DSS-compliant processors and gateways.

Why this site exists

Card fees are easier to lower once you can read them. This guide explains interchange, assessments and markup, collects published rates and statistics with their sources, and offers a free calculator. Because Avendo publishes it, Avendo appears in some comparisons; we explain how in our methodology.

Have a question about your own store? Contact Avendo through its contact page.

Read the credit card processing cost guide

Want a second look at your card fees?

Avendo connects your existing checkout to multiple payment processors and routes each sale to the best available rate. Tell the Avendo team about your store and ask how it would work for you.

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