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Quick holiday check: do you know what happens to your processing fees when you refund an order? Here’s a 3-step way to find out: 1. Pull your refunded order volume from the last year. 2. Check your processor agreement or statements for how fees are handled on refunds. If it isn’t clear, ask your provider directly. 3. Multiply your refunded volume by your fee rate. That’s roughly what you paid to process sales that didn’t happen. Terms vary by provider, so it’s worth knowing before volume spikes. With Bolt, we credit back all fees on refunded orders. Link in comments 👇

Refunds are part of holiday retail. Paying fees on them shouldn’t be. Returns spike after peak season, and with some providers, the fees on those refunded orders never come back. It’s a silent tax that grows right when your volume does. With Bolt, we credit back all fees on refunded orders. For example: on $1M in refunded orders, a 3% fee would cost $30,000 (actual fees vary). And because Bolt is platform- and payment-agnostic, you don’t have to rebuild your stack to get it. Link in comments 👇

Holiday traffic is coming. Is your checkout ready for it? Every extra step between “add to cart” and “order confirmed” costs you sales, and peak season makes that gap more expensive. Bolt’s one-click checkout helps shoppers convert faster. Go live before your holiday code freeze. Link in comments 👇

Your customers are yours. Full stop. At Bolt, we believe that once a shopper checks out with you, you should keep ownership of that relationship regardless of what platform or processor you use next. Bolt is platform- and payment-agnostic by design, because switching tools shouldn't mean losing the customer data and loyalty you've spent years building.

2.9% + $0.30 sounds reasonable, right? But your actual number all-in: 7%.  7% seems to be the going-rate for allowing startups to operate. It’s the rate to get access to investors via an accelerator. It’s also become the rate to simply transact. Here’s the math taken from a real-world example: Real company example doing $250,000 / month with $25 average ticket size. Card processing fees - 2.9% = $7,250 - 30¢ × 10K charges = $3,000 - Intl/FX surcharges = $1,500 $11,750 all-in, 4.7% effective rate Disputes: $3,000 200 a month (2% dispute rate) at $15 14% win rate so $4,300 more in revenue claws back Billing/Subscriptions Platform Fee: $1,750 (0.7% of every recurring charge) Other:  $250 Total: $16,750/month. That’s OVER $200,000 PER YEAR IN FEES. Interchange is what every processor needs to pay their underlying bank and card networks. This is typically 2%. So… the processor's profit margin: 71% (or 5% on an absolute basis) Bolt's profit margin is only about 1% on an absolute basis. That’s an 80% reduction.  100% off of billing fees (it’s free) 100% of fees returned on refunds 66.6% off of chargeback fees ~60% off of the payment margin. Ready to switch? Message me now: ryan@boltapp(dot)com

We're honored to be featured in WooCommerce's Staff Picks newsletter. Bolt has partnered with WooCommerce for 7 years to bring merchants a best-in-class checkout experience. WooCommerce gives merchants deep customization and full ownership of their stores. Bolt Checkout turns that flexibility into higher-converting revenue. https://lnkd.in/enEi2isp

Bolt's MCP connector is live. Full documentation, implementation support, and test plans are available today. Point your coding agent at help.boltapp.com (see the AI tab) and it can get you extremely far on integration, on its own. Many exciting features are still to come over the next few weeks. This is just the start. https://lnkd.in/eZf4RVz2

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