Can you charge fee for declined credit card payment / Get paid by credit card or ACH with Biller Genie April 13, 2020
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KEN KIRSCHENBAUM, ESQ ALARM - SECURITY INDUSTRY LEGAL EMAIL NEWSLETTER / THE ALARM EXCHANGE You can read all of our articles on our website. Having trouble getting our emails? Change your spam controls and white list ken@kirschenbaumesq.com ************************************ Can you charge fee for declined credit card payment / Get paid by credit card or ACH with Biller Genie April 13, 2020 ******************** Don't miss today's webinar on Employment Issues during Covid-19. All employers have employment questions re: termination, accommodation, vacation and sick time, change of duties, re-hiring during the PPP program. Register now: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7840822332954217742 *************** Free Webinars: register today for the upcoming webinars: *************** Webinar:Monday April 13 at 12:30 ET: Employment issues during COVID-19 Topic: Employee Management - Sick Leave, PTO generally, FMLA, Disability during COVID-19. 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When: April 14, 2020 noon ET Presented by: Tom Aronica, CEO of Biller Genie Who should attend: bookkeepers, office managers, owners Register Here:https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4240209824043066380 ********************** Can you charge fee for declined credit card payment ******************** Ken I don’t see any fee in the Standard Form Agreements that can be charged if a credit card is declined. We seem to be wasting a lot of time processing a credit card that gets declined. Then we have to chase the customer. Can we add some fee for this? I’ve heard of a bounced check charge, but not for declined credit card. Anon ********************* Response ********************* Good question; I agree that a charge for bounced check may be appropriate, especially if your bank is charging you. Although that is not in the Standard Form Agreement, it can be added in the contract. I asked Tom Aronica, president of Biller Genie and Skybank Financial. Here is his response: *** Ken I’ve never heard of a charge for a declined credit card transaction in the credit card world. With ACH, there is something called a “representment” fee which is similar to that of a bounced check fee. Generally we see this because ACH transactions are not real time and fees are assessed at the top and passed through for NSFs [non-sufficient funds] and other rejects. With credit cards, the declines are real time so foreseeably you can simply ask for a different form of payment or not deliver the product or render the services. I suppose if the argument is “a failing transaction will cost me time to remediate and thus you should pay for that time”, and that is clearly documented in the contract, that you could charge an “administrative” fee for this service, but it’s a stretch and I would bill it as a separate invoice from the normal transaction that was declined. The way we handle this in Biller Genie is to let the auto-pay transaction decline and then our system starts to automatically follow up on it until we collect payment, and if it ages beyond 30 days, we start to assess finance charges which accrue until the invoice is paid. Let me know if that helps, I hope everyone is safe! With Gratitude, Tom Aronica taronica@billergenie.com BillerGenie.com ********************* Get paid by credit card or ACH with Biller Genie ********************* Ken I want to share some feedback that I’ve been receiving from our alarm industry subscribers over the last few weeks. Many clients that were on the fence have come to us recently because they are now realizing how Biller Genie can take over the busy work while they focus on the continuity of the business. We can help any alarm dealer that is using QuickBooks or Xero to manage their RMR with sending their invoices in email or paper mail, handling all of the follow-up on overdue invoices, collecting payments online and closing the invoices once payment comes in - think of us like a virtual accounts receivable department that automatically manages the business processes between invoice creation and reconciliation. We also just launched a new feature that allows subscribers to charge a processing fee for customers paying online with a credit card or direct those customers instead to pay by ACH which is only 50 cents a transaction, and it’s a big help to offset some of the fees charged by credit card processors. As a reminder, we can connect almost any merchant provider to Biller Genie so subscribers don’t need to make any changes to their merchant account, and we also just launched an integration with QuickBooks Payments so QuickBooks users can also continue using their existing merchant account too. We are happy to setup a demo of any of the features or anyone can setup a free trial account online in just a matter of minutes to take a tour for themselves. The Biller Genie link and the setup a free trial can go here: https://hubs.ly/H0f8Mxd0 The setup a demo link can go here: https://hubs.ly/H0fG13H0 Tom Aronica, CEO / Biller Genie 305 615 2125 taronica@billergenie.com www.billergenie.com ******************** Response ******************** Automated billing and processing the payments through credit cards or ACH is no longer something to think about, you need to do it. Biller Genie services many alarm companies and you should check them out. 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