Ask HN: Is anyone charging extra their customers for credit card payments?

On top of Stripe’s 2.9% + $0.30 how much extra to charge based on how long it takes for a payment to reach the business bank account. If it takes 14 days for payment to reach from Stripe to Business Bank Account, is it…

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On top of Stripe’s 2.9% + $0.30 how much extra to charge based on how long it takes for a payment to reach the business bank account.

If it takes 14 days for payment to reach from Stripe to Business Bank Account, is it fair to charge 2% APR?

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Gaishan8 days ago

Starting from October, credit card surcharges are banned in Australia.

https://www.rba.gov.au/payments-and-infrastructure/review-of...

Would the business apply the proposed 2% APR on the time it takes any refunds to arrive in the spirit of being fair?

toomuchtodo8 days ago

They are legal in most of the US and usually limited to cost recovery for the merchant fee (3-4%).

If a business can support pay by bank via instant payments, that is a cheaper, almost instant option. With that said, Stripe is the least amount of friction for accepting payments online until the merchant fees become painful at scale.

thomasjeff17 days ago

Why is it illegal?

dlcarrier8 days ago

Must businesses I deal with charge 3%. I don't know of any which have a charge less than 3%, except gas stations which usually charge ten cents per gallon, which used to be more than 3%, but now is much less than 3%.

hypercube678 days ago

This question is very practical. Credit card fees are a burden for small businesses, but passing costs to customers may affect sales.

thomasjeff17 days ago

Not only the credit card fees but also the delay in payouts. If Stripe holds your money indefinitely, how to take that risk into account?

gus_massa7 days ago

In many places that's ilegal, but you can offer a 3% discount on cash ;)

thomasjeff17 days ago

Why would it be illegal?

gus_massa7 days ago

Gemini says that in USA it's legal except in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and Puerto Rico, but it's a gray are in other states and cite https://allaypay.com/blog/processing/credit-card-surcharge-l... that agree with that. Wikipedia agree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surcharge_(payment_systems)

My recommendation is ato ask a real layer instead of listening to randoms from the Internet that are not giving legal advice.

Here in Argentina it's nice that whatever price you see in the store window or shelf is the same number that you pay. (It's specially nice when you pay in cash). The only exception are the telephone companies, but they are consider shady anyway. (This is unlike USA that at the last second they add some random taxes and whatever, so you never know how much you are going to pay.)

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