Published US online card rates for Stripe, PayPal and Square side by side — every figure linked to the provider's own page, plus what they don't disclose.
Monthly plan price and per-invoice payment fee for FreshBooks, QuickBooks Online and Wave in one table — two numbers vendors publish separately.
Chargebee, Recurly and Stripe Billing rates compared — and why each stacks on top of card processing. Includes where every vendor stops publishing prices.
How much Stripe, PayPal and Square keep from an online card sale, broken down by sale size, with an international-card row and a manually-keyed-card row — every figure computed from each provider's own published rate.
How much PayPal keeps from an online sale, broken down by payment type — PayPal Checkout, card payments, QR code, Pay Later, invoicing and donations — with every figure computed from PayPal's own published rates.
How much Stripe keeps from an online sale, broken down by payment method — online card, manually entered card, international card, currency conversion, ACH Direct Debit and Klarna pay-over-time — with every figure computed from Stripe's own published rates.
PayPal's Goods and Services fee is charged to the seller, not the buyer — see what a seller keeps from a $10 payment, a $100 payment, a $1,000 payment and a $10,000 payment, the international surcharge, and how it compares with a Friends and Family payment.
How a Stripe, PayPal or Square merchant fee line is built from a percentage part and a fixed part, with the sale size where the fixed part stops driving the total — computed from each processor's own published rate.
A head-to-head of what Stripe and Square charge for a card sale — tapped or swiped in person, entered online, keyed in by hand, and paid with a card issued outside the United States — computed from each provider's own published rate.
How much Square keeps from a card sale on its Free, Plus and Premium plans, by sale size and payment type — in person, online, keyed in, Afterpay and ACH — every figure computed from Square's own published rates.
What Visa and Mastercard let a merchant add as a credit card surcharge, and why the processor's own percentage rate follows that surcharge onto the buyer's total — computed against Stripe's and Square's published rates across four sale sizes.
What Stripe, PayPal and Square charge on $10,000 sales a month, by average ticket size and channel — computed from each processor's own published online and in-person rates.
PayPal's Instant Transfer fee is not just 1.75% or 1.50% — a published minimum, a maximum cap on personal accounts, and a free Standard option all override the flat percentage. See what a personal and a business account actually keep after an Instant Transfer, computed at three transfer sizes from PayPal's own published rates.