Credit Card Glossary: Terms and Definitions
Discount rate
The discount rate is the fee paid by merchants to credit card processors as a fee associated with accepting general-use credit cards (such as Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover). Typically this fee runs between 1 percent and 3 percent, depending on the nature of the transaction.
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