The fees business owners pay to accept credit cards from their customers is a long-standing sore spot in business, if not flat out a hated necessary evil in their businesses. By showing CPAs what the actual, non-marked-up costs are, we want to empower CPAs to help themselves and their clients make the best financial decisions for their businesses. This course explains the various ways the merchant processing business and associated fees work as well as one way for businesses to get the absolute lowest rate possible. This course empowers CPAs and business owners to quickly know if they are paying too much and getting ripped off in the fees they pay.

Learning Objectives:

• Define the underlying wholesale costs of accepting credit cards 


• Determine the underlying fee structure of merchant services 


• Outline the unregulated nature of merchant services


• Identify how business owners are being purposely misled and “stolen” from 


• Compile insider tips and tricks about the merchant services industry to know how to get the best business financial outcome