• The Maculator Merchant Account Cost Comparison Calculator includes pre-loaded data for over a dozen representative merchant accounts  and 37 third party credit card processors which can be selected with a drop-down list.   The list of providers can also be filtered by various features including < 3% rates, free fees, multi-languages, multi-currencies, digital only, high risk content and others.  It provides input fields for monthly sales dollars and monthly sales number.  The monthly costs for two selected processors are calculated and compared side-by-side.  You can also enter rates for any other processor including discount rate, transaction fee, batch header fee, monthly gateway fee, monthly statement fee, annual fee and yearly fee.  The Maculator gives you the option to save your data and compare any number of processor rates in one view.
  
  
• The Basic Rate Comparison Calculator by Merchant Account Services  allows a merchant to get a rough idea of what fees they will be paying on a monthly basis with four different providers based on the basic fees associated with accepting credit cards. It is not meant to be comprehensive. For a comprehensive calculation of your potential fees use the Advanced Rate Comparison below.
  
  
• The Advanced Rate Comparison Calculator by Merchant Account Services allows a merchant to get a thorough idea of what fees they will be paying on a monthly basis with four different providers based on the basic fees associated with accepting credit cards. It is meant to be comprehensive. A basic fee calculator is linked above.
  
  
• The True Merchant Account vs Third Party Processor Fee Calculator also by Merchant Account Services allows a merchant to compare a true merchant with gateway to the three most popular third party processors.
  
  
• With the Quick and Simple Merchant Account Fee Calculator by Merchant Equipment Store you can calculate your estimated monthly cost to process credit cards. This tool will not account for downgrade charges and several other miscellaneous fees, and should give a decent indicator of the real monthly cost to accept credit cards. The Advanced Merchant Account Fee Calculator below includes downgrade charges and other fees.
  
  
• The Advanced Merchant Account Fee Calculator by Merchant Equipment Store allows you to calculate your estimated monthly cost to process credit cards. This tool will account for downgrade charges and several other miscellaneous fees, and should give a decent indicator of the real monthly cost to accept credit cards.
  
  
• The E-commerce Solution Total Cost Calculator by Product Cart Early Impact helps you to compare Hosted vs. licensed E-commerce solutions. How much will it cost to run your e-commerce Web site? When you are reviewing different shopping cart software, the answer might not be that obvious. Use our calculator to find out. We go beyond the "start up" costs, as running an Internet store is something that you will be doing for quite some time. Typically, there are two main options: Hosted e-commerce solutions and Licensed shopping cart software.

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• The Fee Calculator by Ohio Connect helps you to determine What Merchant Service is Best for Your Website? Are you looking to sell products or services online? No doubt you've done some research and found quite a few options out there to accept credit card payments on your website. We've built this merchant service picker to help you determine which provider would be best for you and your specific business.
  
  
• The Merchant Account Fee Calculator by Merchant Account Forum enables you to predict your takings for various merchant accounts based on sales volume. To use it, you can either enter in the transaction fee, discount rate and monthly fee from a merchant account you've seen advertised, or select a merchant account from the drop-down list which will automatically fill the above three values in. Then enter your estimated average ticket value (i.e. the average sale value from your website) and the number of units you hope to sell, then click on the calculate button.  The drop-down list includes 8 processors, including a few 3rd party processors.
  
  
• The Merchant Account Comparison by Digitally Justified Technologies allows you to enter your average monthly sales volume and the number of transactions.   The outcome is a list of  monthly costs for 30 providers including a half dozen 3rd party processors.   The monthly costs include total monthly fees, setup fee, discount rate, transaction fee and other details.  You cannot enter rates to compare other providers that are not listed.
  
  
• The Merchant Rates Calculator by MerchantRates.com provides input fields for your business name, e-mail, contact name, phone, zip code, current processing status, industry, equipment needs, annual fee, transaction fee, monthly statement fee, number of locations and average ticket amount.  The output of this form is an Instant Merchant Account Rate Quote.  All fields are required.  No pre-loaded provider information is included.
  
  
• The PayPal Compare Calculator by 1-Hit.com provides only two input fields for average sale amount and monthly sales amount.  The output is a calculation of cost per year and cost per transaction for Electronic Transfer, PayPal, 2CheckOut, StormPay and ClickBank.  No other processors or cost profiles can be compared.