One route means one price, and it’s rarely the best one
Processing fees are one of the biggest costs you can actually control.
Different processors charge different fees depending on card type, country and currency. If every payment goes down the same route, you pay that route’s price every time, even for payments a cheaper processor would have handled just as well.
Add currency conversion, the cost of failed payments and fees you can’t see clearly, and margin drifts away without anyone noticing.













