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by almost_usual 4887 days ago
I remember reading somewhere the average swipe fee is 1.6% for cards. Don't know how accurate that is but I'm assuming it's not far off.
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You're pretty close to the mark - at least for a company doing that much payment volume. Maybe closer to 1.8% or so. There's dozens of variables (debit vs credit, issuing bank, network, international, chargeback rates, etc...) so it's hard to say with any reasonable degree of certainty.
There's a higher fee for "Card not present" transactions.
Square is card present though.