Hidden Fee #1:  Set Up Fees

There are all kinds of "set-up fees", "new account fees"

and "start-up fees" that you have to be on the lookout for.

These are administrative charges that some companies will try to add to your bill when you sign a contract with them.

They can add up to as much as $195 to getting started for you.

My company has eliminated ALL start-up costs. In fact, you pay nothing to get started, No Application Fee, No Programming Cost and Zero Deposit on Equipment

Not only that. We also give you $700.00 in credit card processing equipment free, so you can start taking credit cards right away.  

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Hidden Fee #2: Non-refundable Application Fees

A non-refundable set-up charge is the same as a set-up charge or an application fee. The only difference is the wording used in the contract.

Alpha Card Services has no set-up charges. The ONLY fixed fee you pay us is our statement fee of $5 per month plus processing

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Hidden Fee #3: Batch fees

If you're new to credit card processing, here's how it works:

Every day, you collect all the transactions authorizations in your terminal. Then, at the end of the day (or the end of a shift), you send them all at once in for processing to the bank, so the money can be sent to your bank account.

That amount you send in all at once is called a "batch."

Many credit-card processors charge you an extra batch fee of up to $.50 per batch. This can add up to $ 180 over the course of a year.

For example:

$0.75 batch fee x 30 shifts/month x 12 months = $270.00 extra per year in just one more hidden fee you didn't know about.

On the other hand, my company doesn't charge you batch fees.At all Ever. Period.

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Hidden Fee #4: Pass-through fees

There are 45,000 banks in the USA , and fewer than 1% of them are actually able to process credit card transactions themselves.

Most contract with a third party to do it. The bank acts as a middleman, and you get stuck with the extra pass-through fees.

These banks are in the banking business, not the credit card processing business.

Of course, they are willing to sign you up anyway, just for the additional fees, which you should not have to pay!

Alpha Card Services is direct with Visa, MasterCard, Discover and AMEX so we do not charge any pass-through fees.

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