Q - Is there a way to give the quoted price and if they choose to pay by credit card there would be a 3% CC fee added? Instead of the business owner eating the fee?
One way we worked around this is we simply added the card fee to every service across the board. Its basically worked into our rate. That way the client doesn't have to choose between fixing something and not because the card fee is too high. We eat the fee, but we are adjusting so that eating it doesn't affect us at all.
I add the fee in manually. Been doing that for about a year now. I just add it as a line item and state what it is clearly and it has never gotten pushback from my customers. I’m also a fence contractor and those fees can be pretty high. I gave a discount last year on my last job of the year and the fees completely wiped the discount.
GMF1 You can also add in a "tax" to be a clickable add on to every invoice and make it a percentage that way you never have to perform any math. We did that for a while and it worked out pretty well.
Like Stephen said, we buried the processing fee into the regular rate of services. We also provide modest rate increases annually (usually 4-5%) to offset these!
