Acquirer

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An acquirer is a member of MasterCard and/or Visa which maintains merchant relationships and receives all bankcard transactions from the merchant.

Acquirers charge the merchants fees which include: a monthly rent for the EFTPOS terminal (if it is not owned by the merchant) which is usually equivalent to around 10 to 30 USD monthly, a percentage fee on their transactions (which varies from country to country, for example in Poland it ranges from 1.8% to 2.5%, regardless of whether the card is debit or credit, in USA and many Western Europe countries the fee is often much lower for debit card transactions, than for those with credit cards), and sometimes (especially in the countries where fees for debit card transactions are much lower) an additional fixed fee per transaction, which ranges from 10 to 20 cents.

[edit] Examples:

• Bank of America
• Royal Bank of Scotland

[edit] See also

• Issuer
• merchant
• EFTPOS