Furthermore, processing costs are low: about 30 cents per transaction, half the cost of clearing a cheque.
Working with Xtime, what if it could slash the phone- and mail-processing costs of just half of those reservations?
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But it wants a guarantee that vendors can keep a small percentage of the tax to cover processing costs.
Earlier this year Granite set up an Internet site and bought a cheque-scanning machine to cut processing costs and help with marketing.
Redbox sees "millions of small dollar amount transactions, and interchange fees represent a larger percentage of card processing costs compared to a typical retailer, " making it "relatively more susceptible to any fee increase, " the filing said.
Visa and MasterCard now face a massive class action, led by Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ), that accuses them of using their clout in the credit card market to force retailers to accept their debit cards, which carry higher processing costs.
The single standard allows a bank to monitor its counterparty risks globally, streamlines back office processing and reduces costs in data management.
Van Bergen says the park will reduce carbon emissions by cutting down on food processing and transport costs, while stimulating local industry and social bonds.
Historically gold companies calculated total cash costs per ounce by including only mining, processing, selling and royalty costs, said Imaru Casanova, senior gold analyst and investment team member of the Van Eck International Investors Gold Fund (INIVX) and the Van Eck Global Hard Assets Fund (GHAAX).
Banks have also done a good job bringing down the costs of processing cheques.
Many magazines make barely enough from subscription revenues to cover the costs of processing payments and mailings.
Warnings about fragile technology, overwhelmed data-processing centres and surging costs suggested slow progress.
This includes mining, processing, and support costs as well as a review of contract services, parts and supplies, and salaries and wages.
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Mitek's technology increases convenience for the consumer by eliminating the need to go to the bank branch or automated teller machine, and dramatically reduces processing and customer acquisition costs while increasing customer retention.
The watchdog is calling for a simplification of charging structures for using cards overseas, cash withdrawal fees for UK transactions to reflect the costs of processing, and clearer explanations of exchange rates after all fees are added.
It costs a few billion dollars to build a modern semiconductor wafer processing plant, and chip development costs can run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Some of the topics raised by the members' expenses committee have been raised with him before - including the cost of processing claims, a comparison of costs with the previous expenses system and the amount of time MPs were spending processing claims.
Much of its appeal lies in the relative cheapness of high-volume transactions a result of the low marginal costs of electronic processing.
The value proposition to merchants is clear eliminate fraud and chargeback risk, accept transactions from any country in the world, and increase profitability by saving on processing fees and PCI Compliance costs.
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Farmers often form cooperatives, reform communities or put together processing and marketing agreements to cut costs.
More importantly, the subsea smart grid set the stage for large-scale subsea processing, which would reduce the costs of developing deep-sea fields dramatically.
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Banks are trying to weaken the law during the rulemaking process and convince the Fed that some processing fees, like fraud prevention costs, should be broadly defined.
As an incentive, participating merchants who use certain sales tax processing services get their tax collection costs subsidized and aren't held responsible for mistakes those services might make.
They must exclude from calculation of the charges costs associated with original collection and processing of the information.
Egenera computers may cost 30% more than a comparable amount of bargain-basement processing, but their centrally managed operations eliminate setup and maintenance costs, as well as cables and multiple copies of systems.
Since November, Union Bank has also allowed borrowers to roll the costs of a refinance, like the appraisal fee and loan processing fee, into the mortgage.
In other efforts to cut costs, the Postal Service has closed or consolidated dozens of mail-processing plants and relocated or cut hours at many post offices.
The key to the future is being able to control our costs not just at the farm level but across the industry and at the processing level too.
Sandbridge Technologies' SB3010 chips are flexible enough to handle a wide range of protocols, multimedia and application processing, which would enable handset makers to built multifunction handsets using a single chip, driving costs down.
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Graphic health warnings (GHW) threaten serious costs in terms of smoker concentration on fear (as opposed to danger avoidance), defensive processing, and reactance, as well as feelings of low self-esteem and self-efficacy.
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