Processing fees

Fees for registrations taken internally are always assessed to your organization, but you can choose who pays the membership processing fee for registrations taken online:

Absorb fee: Your organization pays the membership processing fee as well as the credit card payment processing fee. This is paid by deducting these fees from remittances your organization receives from .
Pass fee on: Your organization passes on the membership processing fee to participants. However, the credit card payment processing fee is still charged to your organization and deducted from any remittance sent to you. There is no credit card payment processing fee for payments made by cash or check.

The following is an example only. The membership processing fee may be variable and is set according to your contract with.

	Absorb fee	Pass fee on
Credit card payment from registrant	$50	$53 ($50 membership fee + 6% membership processing fee)
Membership processing fee (6% per registration but may vary)	-$3	$0
Credit card payment processing fee paid by your organization (3.95% of credit card payments but may vary)	-$1.98 (3.95% x $50)	-$2.09 (3.95% x $53)
Net amount your organization receives	$45.02	$50.91