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Pricing models explained
Flat-rate vs dual pricing
This page explains how flat-rate pricing and dual pricing work. Which one fits depends on your business’s sales, how it takes payments, and your state’s rules.
Edge is a dual-price program: you post both prices, cash and card, everywhere you post prices, following the rules in your state.
The first model
How flat-rate pricing works
Flat-rate pricing bundles processing charges into a stated rate for a defined type of transaction, often a percentage plus a fixed amount. A provider may use different rates for in-person, online or manually entered payments, and other fees may apply.
The second model
How dual pricing with Edge works
With dual pricing, the business posts two prices, cash and card, everywhere it posts prices, following its state’s rules.
Customers see both prices before they pay.
How Edge works
Edge is a dual-price program
Edge is a dual-price program: you post both prices, cash and card, everywhere you post prices, following the rules in your state.
What Edge is
Edge is a unique program that supports a dual-price model for all goods and services, allowing businesses to experience the same profit margins on all transactions.
Know the rules before you sign
The rules on posting two prices come from your state and from the card brands, and they are not the same everywhere. Before you sign, we walk you through what your state and the card brands publish. We are not a law firm, and whether a rule applies to your business is your decision.
Approval and your software plan
You still have to be approved. Your rate is set when your application is underwritten. Edge runs on a monthly software plan, due whether your device is placed or bought. Call us for the current monthly software plan price before you apply.
Next step
Questions about which model fits?
Call us and we will walk through how each model would work for your business and which rules apply where you are. Call us for the current monthly software plan price before you apply.
Talk it through first: call (888) 713-5175.