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The EU regulates credit card fees caping them at 0.3% [1]. That is roughly a fifth of the fees charged in the US and roughly two orders of magnitude smaller tha
by bhelkey 2y ago
The EU regulates credit card fees caping them at 0.3% [1]. That is roughly a fifth of the fees charged in the US and roughly two orders of magnitude smaller than Apple app store fees.
[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/fees-for-card-based-payments.html https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/fees-for-...
- thefounder 2y agoI think that’s a different fee. As a merchant accepting credit card or debit card payments is going to cost you the same 2-3%. At least that’s what Stripe or local payment processors charge
- bhelkey 2y agoStripe charges 1.5% + €0.25 ($0.27) in the EU to accept EEA cards [1]. Stripe charges 2.9% + $0.30 for processing domestic cards in the US [2]. The reason it charges 1.4% more for accepting US cards is the US card fees (interchange fees). These fees are complicated and roughly five times more than European card fees [3]. [1] https://stripe.com/en-fr/pricing https://stripe.com/en-fr/pricing [2] https://stripe.com/pricing https://stripe.com/pricing [3] https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/small-business/credit-card-processing-fees https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/small-business/credit-car...