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Processing Credit Card Fees in Accounting

Hi Mark,
What is the best way to record a charge for receiving card payments,. A customer will simply settle their account using a card, but we will be charged a 1.75% fee for each transaction at the time and just receive the Toal minus 1.75% directly into our bank account for each individual payment.

hope that makes sense.
Will wait to hear from you
Regards
Andrew


Posted by Andrew Knapman on Jul 19, 2019 9:58 AM BST

Hi Andrew,

The simplest way to handle the credit card fee of 1.75% is to first record
a full payment from your customer, then record a separate 'Money Paid Out'
transaction from your cheque account (or your card merchant account) for
the amount of the fee, allocated to the Bank Fees expense account.


Posted by Solar Accounts Customer Support on Jul 19, 2019 12:41 PM BST

Thanks Mark
I appreciate your help



Posted by Andrew Knapman on Jul 19, 2019 1:03 PM BST