- Update: Checkout Fee is now Admin Fee. This change complies with major card brand requirements.
Retailers, restaurants and other businesses can implement an admin fee to help with business expenditures, maintain exceptional service, and provide competitive prices. With Exatouch Point of Sale, an admin fee can be applied automatically as a set dollar amount or percent on a total purchase.
To implement an admin fee, define and apply the admin fee for all tender types in your Register app. The amount charged is applied to a customer’s total purchase for all tender types. Admin fees can be applied with or without a cash discount.
- Note: Only administrative users can change settings in your Exatouch system.
- From Home, navigate to Settings > Account.
- Tap the Admin Fee tab.
- Enter an Admin Fee amount, tap to select Percent to apply a percentage-based admin fee, or Dollar to apply a flat dollar amount admin fee. Admin fees are not applied to any tender type by default — tap to apply admin fees for all tender types.
- Optionally, tap to enable, edit, and print receipt messages for Guest Check (Pre-Payment) Receipt Message, Tendered Receipt Message, and Exempted Receipt Message.
- Tip! Use the provided variables when you customize your receipts. The variable {%disc} includes the percentage admin fee applicable to the tender type. The variables {$disc} and {dollar} include the total admin fee, in dollar amount format, applicable to the tender type. The variable {tender} includes the tender type used in this transaction.
- Optionally, enable Fee is Taxable to calculate tax on the Admin Fee, or enable Apply Fee to Taxes to calculate the Admin Fee on the order total and taxes on the order, if needed.
- Tap Save to save your work.
- Note: To calculate taxes on any Admin Fees, you must also enable Admin Fees in the appropriate tax groups. From Home, navigate to Settings > Tax Group Settings > and enable Admin Fee in the appropriate Tax Groups.
- Feature Note: Quick Cash Payments are not available if you apply a Admin Fee to Cash payments.
- Note: Please note that changes in federal banking regulations may result in adjustments to the EBT, dual pricing, cash discount features.
Exatouch Setup:
- Tender Type Discount: all tenders – 0.00%
- Admin Fee:Â 1.50 Dollar
- Admin Fee – Fee is Taxable: Disabled
- Admin Fee – Apply Fee to Taxes:Â Disabled
- Admin Fee – Apply To: All tender types Enabled
Customer payment, tender type Credit:
A $1.50 admin fee is included on a credit payment receipt.
Item Total: $30.40
Admin Fee: $1.50
Sales Tax: $1.45
Total: $33.35
Customer payment, tender type Cash:
AÂ $1.50 admin fee is included on a cash payment receipt.
Item Total: $30.40
Admin Fee: $1.50
Sales Tax: $1.45
Total: $33.35
Exatouch Setup:
- Tender Type Discount: all tenders –Â 0.00%
- Admin Fee:Â 3.50 Percent of order items total
- Admin Fee – Fee is Taxable: Disabled
- Admin Fee – Apply Fee to Taxes:Â Disabled
- Admin Fee – Apply To: All tender types Enabled
Customer payment, tender type Credit:
A 3.50% admin fee is included on a credit payment receipt.
Item Total: $10.46
Admin Fee: $0.37
Sales Tax: $0.00
Total: $10.83
Customer payment, tender type Cash:
A 3.50% admin fee is included on a cash payment receipt.
Item Total: $10.46
Admin Fee: $0.37
Sales Tax: $0.00
Total: $10.83
Exatouch Setup:
- Tender Type Discount: Cash –Â 3.00%
- Admin Fee:Â 4.00 Percent of order items total
- Admin Fee – Fee is Taxable: Disabled
- Admin Fee – Apply Fee to Taxes:Â Disabled
- Admin Fee – Apply To: All tender types Enabled
Customer payment, tender type Credit:
A 4.00% admin fee is included, but no tender type discount is included on a credit payment receipt.
Item Total: $17.13
Admin Fee: $0.69
Tax: $0.00
Total: $17.82
Customer payment, tender type Cash:
A 4.00% admin fee is included, as well as a 3.00% cash discount.
Item Total: $17.13
Cash Discount: -$.051
Subtotal: $16.62
Admin Fee: $0.69
Tax: $0.00
Total: $17.31
- Warning: Your admin fee must be at least 0.10% more than any cash discount offered.
- Tip! If you require assistance with setting up cash discounts, admin fees, or a combination of the two, please contact your Electronic Payments representative.
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