ANSWER ID:13157You will need to find out from your Merchant if GST is applied to the surcharge. For the purposes of this support note, we are assuming that 'll assume the surcharge from the Merchant is a GST-free transaction. The quickest solution is to create easiest way to cater for credit card surcharges in RetailManager is to create a new item in the stock window. Check the option to make it a static quantity and fraction item. Set the Tax code to be what your Merchant has specified. When a credit card payment is going to be processed, . Then when you process a credit card payment, you can add this item to the sale and change the selling price of the item to be the price to the amount of the surcharge. | UI Text Box |
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| Before you begin Take a backup of your shopfront by going to the File menu and choosing Backup. |
If you are prompted to close all open windows click OK and select the location to save your shopfront backup. For more For more detailed instructions |
see our support note Backup and restore a RetailManager Shopfront.Task 1 - Creating | UI Expand |
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| title | 1. Create an item to represent the surcharge |
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Go - In RetailManager, go to the Information menu and choose Stock.
- Enter the desired barcode for the new item, press Tab, then select the option to create the barcode.
- Enter the Description as Credit Card Surcharge $0.02 per $1, or similar (as applicable).
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option - options Static Quantity and Fractional Quantities.
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Set the item to have the [Australia only]FRE [New Zealand only]N-T Tax-Code and a $0.02 sell price (as applicable). See our example below.
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Note: If you have multiple merchant fee ratesSelect the applicable Tax Code. If you're not sure what to choose, check with your accounting advisor. For our example, we'll choose a code that doesn't attract GST.
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| Multiple merchant fee rates If your merchant fee rates vary between merchants, you can select the option Change Description at POS. |
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This will allow This allows you to change the description to the relevant charge when processing the sale, for example Credit Card Surcharge $0.04 per $1. |
- Click Commit.
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| You could also setup multiple surcharge items |
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with like this with the card type in the description, for example CCA AMEX Surcharge $0.03 per $1 |
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, code or CCD Diners Surcharge $0.04 per $1. |
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This will allow This allows you to simply choose the appropriate surcharge item at the time of sale. |
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| title | 2. Process the sale and include the surcharge |
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| - Go to the Transaction menu and choose Sales.
- Enter the Staff and Customer
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- Enter the item(s) being sold.
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Surcharge Item - surcharge item (as created above).
For the Qty of the surcharge item, enter the total price of the item(s) being sold. In the example below, we
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Note: If you have selected 're adding the 2% Credit Card Surcharge item to a sale with a total value of $899.00.
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| If you selected the Change Description at POS option when creating the surcharge item, the description can be changed at this stage |
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if required, for example Credit Card Surcharge $0.04 per $1. |
- Specify the payment details then click Commit.
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