Release Details #
Release Title: Chargent version 7.80
Release Installation URL: Chargent Installation & Updates
Release Date: March 2025
Release Overview #
We’re excited to announce Chargent version 7.80, delivering our newest feature – Card Surcharging.
Credit card fees have risen dramatically,directly impacting your profitability. Raising your prices to offset these fees hurts your competitiveness, yet absorbing them reduces your cash flow. A more effective approach is to recoup those fees by surcharging.
How does surcharging in Chargent work?
This set-and-forget feature boosts your bottom line and raises profit margins the day you enable it. Automatically, Chargent calculates and incorporates card surcharge fees into your payment processes.
How do I stay compliant?
We’ve partnered with surcharging experts InterPayments to ensure that every transaction is compliant. Over 60 regulatory bodies govern surcharging. Rules and rates vary based on state and card brand. Our integration with InterPayments includes automated, real-time updates to ensure that these rules are followed. And to back that up, InterPayments provides full indemnification to your business.
What will it take to set up?
There’s no upfront costs, and setup is done in minutes with clicks, not code. Contact us today to get started.
This release also addresses a known issue with ACH payments using the Braintree gateway integration.
New Features #
Credit Card Surcharging
Where: Chargent Base and Orders version 7.80 and newer – Works with Payment Console, Payment Request, the Take Payment component.
Strengthen your cash flow today by recovering credit card transaction fees with our new surcharging functionality. We’ve partnered with InterPayments in order to enable your business to leverage this exciting feature with easy setup and guaranteed compliance.
Immediate Cost Recovery
Recover transaction fees by passing them to customers, improving cash flow.
Automated Surcharge Management
Surcharging fees are automatically calculated and inserted into the payment process.
Built-In Compliance
Effortlessly comply with legal requirements and industry standards with complete indemnification.
Clear Customer Communication
Fees are itemized and communicated to the customer during the payment process before the transaction completes, allowing your customers to choose another payment method should they see fit.
Quick, Simple Setup
Your Salesforce administrator can configure surcharging in Chargent quickly and easily, requiring only clicks – not code. And the Chargent Support team is ready to help you through the process and answer your questions.
Ready to recover these fees? Learn more here: Setting Up Surcharging
Updates #
Braintree Payment Gateway – ACH Payments
Fixed an issue wherein ACH payments using the Braintree payment gateway would not complete due to the use of test endpoints in production environments.
