When you are authorizing a credit card payment for an order, you might not know what the final order total is going to be due to freight and handling charges. For each shipping method you have defined in your sysem, assign a default upcharge to add to the order total that you are authorizing on the customer's credit card to estimate and cover freight and handling charges. During credit card authorizations, the system adds this amount to the total order amount. This additional amount ensures that there are enough authorized funds available on the card to pay for the goods and potential shipping and handling fees.
To assign credit card authorization upcharges to a ship via:
From the Maintenance menu, select Ship Via to display the Ship Via Maintenance window .
In the Ship Via field, enter the shipping method to which you want to assign the information.
Click the Additional Information tab to display the Credit Card Information area.
In the Percent Upcharge % field, enter the percentage of the total order amount to add to the authorization amount to cover any freight or handling fees.
In the Minimum Upcharge field, enter the minimum upcharge to add to the total if the upcharge determined by the percent in the Percent Upcharge field is less than this amount.
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