Ask HN: What expenses do banks incur by accepting ACH transfers?
I can see that my bank charges $25 to accept 10 ACH transfers per month.
Stripe charges between $5 and $25 (maximum) per ACH transaction [1].
I'm curious, what costs do banks have to process a transaction, and what would determine their price?
This example is facetious, but Venmo is free and they deduct directly from my bank account too.
Is it just the costs of keeping their servers running, or it is some transactional expense, or liability, etc.?
[1] https://support.stripe.com/questions/pricing-of-payment-methods-in-the-us
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[ 5.2 ms ] story [ 14.3 ms ] threadEssentially $0.000185 per transaction ($18.50 per 100,000 transactions) + the cost of maintaining their own infrastructure.