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Credit Surcharging and Cash Discounting: Do the Benefits Outweigh the Risks?

New report from Mercator Advisory Group examines developing regulations and opportunities for credit surcharging and cash discounting.

Image of Georgio Salas By Georgio Salas.
Updated Dec 29, 2021

BOSTON (PRWEB) December 29, 2021 - Mercator Advisory Groups most recent report, Credit Surcharging and Cash Discounting: Approaches to Managing Processing Costs, examines the changing regulatory landscape for surcharging and discounting, and offers recommendations on how to effectively adopt either strategy.

Credit surcharging and cash discounting are two approaches to shifting the cost of credit processing from the merchant to the consumer. While either approach can help merchants lower operating expenses and support their bottom line, they both come with challenges and risks. Merchants should be aware of the complex regulatory environment surrounding these strategies and weigh the risk of losing customers to competitors who do not surcharge or offer discounts.

For small merchants struggling with profitability, two main approaches exist to shift the expense of credit transactions onto consumers. In many ways, credit surcharging and cash discounting are two sides of the same coin: one charges a fee to those who choose to use a credit card, one offers a reward to those who choose cash. Still, these two approaches have experienced dramatically different treatment by state regulators and credit card networks alike, stated the author of the report, Laura Handly, Research Analyst at Mercator Advisory Group.

Highlights of this report include:

This report is 14 pages long and contains 2 exhibits.

Companies mentioned in report include: American Express, Discover, Kroger Inc., Mastercard, QVC Inc., Rite Aid Corp., Riverside Caf, Safeway Inc., Visa.

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About Mercator Advisory Group Mercator Advisory Group is the leading independent research and advisory services firm exclusively focused on the payments and banking industries. We deliver pragmatic and timely research and advice designed to help our clients uncover the most lucrative opportunities to maximize revenue growth and contain costs. Our clients range from the world's largest payment issuers, acquirers, processors, merchants and associations to leading technology providers and investors. Mercator Advisory Group is also the publisher of the online payments and banking news and information portal PaymentsJournal.com.