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How do I add a charge for credit card payments?
How do I add a charge for credit card payments?
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Written by Dan Fellman
Updated over a week ago

What if you want to display an additional charge in the estimate and invoice that is based on a percentage of the estimate (invoice) total to cover the cost of accepting payment by credit card?

ContractorTools provides two ways to cover the cost of credit card processing fees. One way is to add a "proportional cost" item to job estimates. Proportional costs are automatically calculated based on the total of all costs in the job, including markups and taxes. Here's more information about using proportional costs.

The other way is to...

  • Increase the total percent of your markups by the credit card charge amount (i.e. 3.5%).

  • Add a discount of 3.5% (Job > Job Info > Discount) to the job for "Cash Discount". 

  • Add a note in the job terms (Job > Estimate > Info > Terms) to the effect that "The total price will be discounted by 3.5% if payment is made by check or cash."

If the customer pays by Cash/Check, include the discount; it will be displayed in the estimate and invoice. If they pay by credit card, remove the discount. 

You can set up the discount and terms in your job template(s) so you don't have to do it repeatedly in each job.

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