The payment system supports the ability to automatically create a credit card/eftpos surcharge attime at time of entry.
Select Preferences, My Money, Discount Rates (under Payments) and configure as follows:
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Discount No. 10 ENTER-No.-AS-APPROPRIATE
Description Credit Surcharge (or Merchant Fee Surcharge)
% or $ %
Ratio -2.50 (Note use of negative symbol)
Round to Cents 5 AS-APPROPRIATE
Now select Payment Options, Field #4 “Surcharge Number” to point to this discount table entry.
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Now whenever an amount is detected for credit card/eftpos, the system will prompt “Add surcharge to this payment Y/N”.
If confirmed the program will calculate the surcharge, add it to the payment line and create a subsequent negative discount line for the surcharge itself.
Eg, using the above example of a 2.5% surcharge, with a patient owing $100, the system calculates a “discount” Credit Surcharge of -2.50 and the total owing would be $102.50.