Dental payment processing that moves the credit card fee off the practice.
Summit Payments serves dental practices nationwide. We take the card, post it into your software, and move the credit card fee to the patient where the law allows. Debit is never surcharged.
The fee shows itself
A $100 treatment. A $3 fee. $103 total.
The patient sees the fee on the terminal before they pay. The terminal reads the card, and when it is debit, the fee comes off. Some patients happily switch to debit.
Summit Health Pay posts the payment into Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental, DSN, PracticeWorks, Cloud 9, and Denticon. Summit Health Pay and Summit Cloud POS send receipts by text or email, so there's no printing at the front desk.
Why practices overpay
Seven in ten patients pay by card.
Most of those are credit cards, and the practice pays a fee on each one. On $50,000 in monthly card volume at a 3% effective rate, that is about $1,500 a month. That figure is illustrative.
With Summit, the credit card fee shifts to the patient. Debit is never surcharged, so debit stays a practice cost.
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Compliant surcharging
When a patient pays with a credit card, a 3% fee is added to their total, and that fee covers the practice's card processing cost. Debit cards are never charged extra. Summit sets up the signs and receipts so you stay compliant.
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Posting into your software
Summit Health Pay posts payments to Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental, DSN, PracticeWorks, Cloud 9, and Denticon. See integrations.
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Support built for dental
Our team knows how a dental office collects payments, where the friction is, and how to remove it. Setup takes 7 to 10 business days.
An illustration at $50,000 a month
Practices like yours save ten to fifteen thousand a year.
a month at a 3% effective rate. Illustrative, not a typical result and not a promise.
a year. The highest-volume practices have kept $20,000 or more. Your statement sets the real number.
The $1,500 is an illustration at a 3% effective rate. Debit is never charged extra. Your statement sets the real number.
In short
What is dental payment processing?
Dental payment processing is how a dental practice accepts a patient card, deposits the money, and posts the payment to the ledger. Summit Payments does that work for dental practices nationwide.
Summit Health Pay posts into Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental, DSN, PracticeWorks, Cloud 9, and Denticon. Debit is never surcharged.
What is dental credit card processing?
Dental credit card processing is the credit card portion of dental payment processing. A disclosed surcharge can apply to a credit card. It cannot apply to debit, and Summit never surcharges debit. The terminal reads the card type and drops the fee on its own, so nobody at the front desk has to decide.
Some patients happily switch to debit. More answers are on the answers page.
Reviewed by Brendon Degner, founder. Last reviewed .
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