Why dental practices overpay

Dental offices are different. You process 72% of payments via credit or debit card. Your average ticket size ranges from $200 to $500 per transaction. Yet standard payment processors charge you 3% to 4% on every single transaction, with zero dental-specific tools or support.

That means a practice collecting $50,000 monthly in card payments pays $1,500 to $2,000 in processing fees alone. Most of that goes straight to the processor. Nothing comes back to your practice.

Standard Processor

$6-$20 per transaction

No surcharging. No PMS integration. Generic support.

Summit Payments

Recover the fee

Compliant surcharging, PMS automation, dental support.

What Summit does differently

Compliant Surcharging

Recover card processing fees legally. In 48 states, you can pass the credit card fee directly to patients who choose to pay by card. Summit handles all compliance, notification, and state registration. You get the fees back.

PMS Integration

Payments post automatically to Dentrix, Eaglesoft, Open Dental, or Curve Dental. No manual entry. No double posting. No end-of-day reconciliation. Your front desk gets hours back every week.

Dental-First Support

Our team understands dental workflows. We speak your language. We know how your practice collects payments, where the friction is, and how to remove it. You get support built for dental, not retrofitted for dental.

The real difference: dollars recovered

Average dental practice (48 patients/week)

$735

Lost monthly to card processing fees

With Summit compliant surcharging

$60

Monthly processing costs

Annual recovery

$8,100

That stays in your practice

Based on $50,000 monthly card volume at average dental transaction size. Actual savings depend on your practice volume and current processor rates.

See how much your practice could recover

Every month you wait is money left on the table. Let's talk about what payment processing should look like for a dental practice.

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Payment processing built for dental