Convenience Fee

The Convenience Fee program allows merchants to apply an additional charge to a customer’s bill (with their consent) for the convenience of being able to pay for goods and services using an alternative payment channel.

1. Getting Started with Convenience Fee

Moneris Sales Support

Phone: 1-855-465-4980

The Convenience Fee program allows merchants to apply an additional charge to a customer’s bill (with their consent) for the convenience of being able to pay for goods and services using an alternative payment channel. This applies only when providing a true convenience in the form of a channel outside the merchant's customary face-to-face payment channels.

The Convenience Fee is a charge in addition to what the consumer is paying for the provided goods/services. This charge appears as a separate line item on the consumer’s statement.

The Convenience Fee program provides several benefits. It may allow you an opportunity to reduce or eliminate credit card processing fees and improve customer satisfaction.

To begin processing Convenience Fee transactions, you will need to contact Moneris' Sales Support to activate this feature on your store.

2. Create Payment with Convenience Fee

Convenience Fee Purchases can be performed using the Create Payment API call (POST request on /payments). Some key things to note about a Convenience Fee transaction include:

  • paymentMethod (Object)

Only Visa and Mastercard cards can be used in a Convenience Fee transaction.

  • automaticCapture (Boolean)

This must be set to TRUE for Convenience Fee transactions.

  • amount (Object)

This is the amount of the transaction itself. This does not include the amount that the cardholder is being charged as a Convenience Fee.

  • convenienceFee.amount (Object)

This specifies the amount that the cardholder is being charged as a Convenience Fee.

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