Credit Card Processing Glossary
General: Interchange Rates
For each credit or debit card payment, the majority of the money that the credit card processor collects must be passed along to the bank that issued the card.
Visa and Mastercard define how big those payments are for each type of transaction and the resulting set of rules and formulas is called Interchange. More information on the details of interchange can be found in this blog post: Interchange
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