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Overview

How it works

In order to calculate and charge a Credit Card Convenience Fee and Credit Card Surcharge, an item must be added to the Material table and the following commands must be added to the Interact initialization file, Interact.ini. 

Modifying Interact

The ECC feature can be configured to apply a processing convenience fee when transactions are paid for with a credit/debit card. It can also be configured to apply a tax to the fee. 

When applying a convenience fee, Interact will automatically generate a multiple item transaction/ticket. An additional item in the material table will need to be added and used specifically for the convenience fee transaction. The Multiple Items feature does not need to be activated to use this feature.

Interact will calculate the convenience fee on the Total Charge of the transaction. The Total Charge includes the material fee, freight fee, and added charge fees.

An option is available to include any taxes charged in the convenience fee calculation.

Modifying Interact

Adding a Material

The ECC feature will generate an additional transaction to store the convenience fee. Adding a material item to be used specifically for the convenience fee transaction will allow Interact reports to provide detailed information about the convenience fee. Interact will automatically generate a multiple item transaction and use this item to store the fee.

• Select Admin Maintain | Categories |   Material
• Click the Add New button, the Code and Description fields should be blank
• Enter a Code (i.e. CCSur CardFee)
• Enter a Description (i.e. Credit Card SurchargeProcessing Fee)
• Click the Save Changes button

Modifying the initialization file [Weigh Options]

The following Interact.ini file settings have been added to activate the ECC feature. All settings must be added to the [Weigh Options] section.

• CreditCardConvenienceFee
• CcMaterial
• CCSurchargeTotal

CreditCardConvenienceFee

• CreditCardConvenienceFee=x.x

Activating the Feature

To activate the convenience fee feature, select Setup | Configure | Prices. Scroll to the Electronic Credit Card section. Enter the Convenience Fee percentage.

• For example, 1.0 will calculate a 1.0 % convenience fee on the total charge of the transaction. Zero (0) is a valid entry. Obviously, a convenience fee will not be calculated if the value is zero.

CCMaterial

• CcMaterial=Material Code

Replace Material Code with the code created in the Material Table; CCSur in the above example.

CCSurchargeTotal

• CCSurchargeTotal=On/Off

Finally Interact needs to know if Select the Surcharge Material from the available drop-down list. The selected material will be used when processing the Convenience Fee transaction.

If any taxes charged during the transaction are to be included or excluded from the Credit Card Convenience Fee calculation.
To include taxes charged to the transaction, enter On. To exclude taxes charged to the transaction enter Off.
In the following sample report, ticket 132829 excluded the tax of $1.50 from the calculation because CCSurchargeTotal was set to Off.check the Surcharge on Total box.

The settings will look similar to the following.

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The CCSurchargeTotal was set to On for ticket 132832, the tax of $8.63 cents was included in the Convenience Fee calculation.