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I noticed today that Authorize.net is not recording the payment processor fees. Is there a way to get the civiCRM payment processor to record such a fee so that we can record the data? I have found some information for paypal, but nothing for Authorize.net

I found this odd since the Authorize.Net is a core supported payment processor.

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Authorize.Net doesn't return this information, which is why it's not available in CiviCRM.

One of the fields returned in the PayPal API documentation is transaction_fee. Authorize.Net's API documentation has no equivalent in the "Response" section.

The reason is that Authorize.Net can't tell you the transaction fee based on a single transaction, because their calculations are more complicated than PayPal's. PayPal charges a high amount on every transaction, so they can give you a simple pricing structure. Authorize.Net gives, e.g., variable rates based on volume, which can't be calculated until your month is over.

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  • Authorize.net has adopted a similar pricing structure to Paypal's if you use them as a merchant account: authorize.net/solutions/merchantsolutions/pricing I have looked through the API and know they don't send transaction data. Is there a way to manually enter this fee amount for every transaction (sort of like a tax?) so that the bank fees can be calculated correctly?
    – Becca
    Commented Feb 25, 2016 at 17:36
  • @Becca You could write a hook to do this - hook_civicrm_pre is probably the right one.
    – Jon G - Megaphone Tech
    Commented Mar 17, 2016 at 19:16

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