All About Surcharges

Surcharges allow you to add a fee to actual mail costs during the accounting and reporting process. If you set up a surcharge in the Accounts application, you are creating a global surcharge, or surcharge that will be applied to each and every transaction processed by the mailing system.

If select and edit a surcharge on the Run Mail screen, you are applying a batch surcharge, or a surcharge that is customized for a specific transaction. The batch surcharge values revert to the global surcharge settings when you close the job, reload the job, or when the batch is ended.

You can apply a surcharge per piece of mail, per transaction, and/or per transaction percentage.

An amount per mail piece surcharge is calculated by multiplying the number of pieces processed by the surcharge setting. This surcharge can be set anywhere from -1.00 to 1.00.
An amount per transaction surcharge is applied to each batch (or transaction) run on the system. This surcharge can be set anywhere from -50.00 to 50.00.
A percentage per mail piece surcharge is calculated multiplying the postage cost of the entire batch by the percent transaction setting. This surcharge can be set anywhere from -100% to 100%.

NOTE: The dollar amount entered can be either positive or a negative. A negative amount indicates a discount will be applied to the postage amount for the piece of mail or transaction. A positive amount indicates a surcharge will be applied to the postage amount for the piece of mail or transaction.