The Railroad Yard Pipe & Steel.
Four years, hundreds of thousands saved, and almost no support calls. A high-volume steel and pipe supplier shows what dual pricing looks like when it is set up right, and stays that way.
- ~$99,000
- Eliminated per year
- ~100%
- Card fees offset
- 4 yrs
- Near-zero support calls
The challenge and the solution
The challenge
The Railroad Yard has supplied pipe, steel, buildings and custom fabrication across Oklahoma since 1978: a high-volume operation running about $300,000 a month in card payments.
With a national "Global" processor, they were paying roughly 2.75%, about $8,250 every month in fees, on a business where every point of margin matters.
The solution
In 2022 we moved them to Dual Pricing, so a clearly posted card price offsets processing entirely. We deployed Dejavoo P1 terminals for card-present sales in the office and the Dejavoo iPOSpays virtual terminal for back-office invoicing, and helped shift more volume to lower-cost ACH.
Terminals came at no cost on a placement program, warrantied for life. We stayed on-site until everything worked; the whole transition took under a week.
The impact
Roughly $8,250 a month, about $99,000 a year, is now offset instead of paid. Four years in, that is hundreds of thousands kept in the business, with near-zero support calls and every terminal repaired or replaced at no charge.
The numbers and the technology deployed
Monthly processing, before and after
- Card volume
- $300,000
- Prior rate (Global)
- 2.75%
- Prior monthly fees
- $8,250
- Black Mesa (Dual Pricing)
- ~$0*
- Monthly savings
- ~$8,250
*Card price offsets processing under a compliant dual pricing program; savings estimated from prior processing statements.
Technology deployed
- Program
- Dual Pricing
- Terminals
- Dejavoo P1
- Gateway
- Dejavoo iPOSpays
- Methods
- Card-present, invoicing, ACH
- Equipment
- Lifetime warranty
Solutions used
In the client’s words
Black Mesa Payments brought us dual pricing. This has saved us hundreds of thousands of dollars with very little negative impact from our customer base. They also answer the phone when we need them, and have fixed or replaced any terminals needed along the way. They transformed our company financially.
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