Credit Card Surcharging Technology and Compliance: What Automated Tools Actually Handle for Dealerships
Surcharging has a reputation for being complicated, and that reputation is not entirely undeserved. Between card brand rules, state-level restrictions, and disclosure requirements, it’s easy to see why some dealership owners avoid the topic altogether rather than sort through the details. Technology has made surcharging more manageable to administer day to day, but it’s worth […]
Fee Creep in Dealership Payment Processing: How Real-Time Data Helps You Catch It Early
Fee creep is the gradual, often unnoticed increase in what a dealership pays to process card transactions — a small rate adjustment here, a new line item there, a reclassification that quietly changes how a batch of transactions gets priced. None of it tends to look dramatic in isolation. Collected over a full year across […]