For Fairs with auctions, credit card fees can be a burdensome expense item, but more and more buyers prefer using credit cards instead of checks or cash. Transferring the credit card fees to the purchaser allows the Fair to offer that convenience, without incurring additional expense. Only purchasers who choose to use credit cards will be charged the fee.
Before you allow credit card payments, you need to have a Stripe account set up, active, and enabled for payment (Setup menu, Payment Integration tab). For more information on setting up a Stripe account, see Payment Integration and Stripe Resources
Important notes:
Your buyers will need to have a login account in order to pay by credit card. There is not an option for managers to enter credit card information for them, for security reasons.
Do not allow buyer login (Setup menu, Fair Details tab) until AFTER your entry registration period has ended. There are issues with login if the buyer account uses the same email address as an exhibitor account.
Because of rounding, a customer's credit card fee may occasionally be a penny more or less than the actual fees deducted by Stripe from the payment.