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Customer experience operations articles & guides

Field notes on customer-experience operations. Written for the people who run onboarding, billing, and support, not just measure them.

Billing

Positive Pay Fees by Bank and Positive Pay Cost per Month

Positive pay costs $25 to $60 a month per account on published US bank schedules, and $25 to $130 a month for 300 checks once per check and exception fees apply. Thirteen banks priced on one workload, plus what U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo and Truist accept in public contracts.

Billing

Remote Deposit Capture Fees and RDC Cost per Month by Bank

Remote deposit capture costs $15 to $95 a month at 100 checks and $15 to $640 at 1,500 checks on published US bank fee schedules, plus a scanner that is either leased free on a two-year contract or bought for $410 to $1,138. Eleven banks priced on one workload.

Billing

Commercial Collection Agency Fees and B2B Collection Cost by Agency

Commercial collection agencies charge 10 to 50 percent of what they recover, or a flat $5 to $24 per account for a letter program. Here are the rates six US agencies publish, what the same $67,000 of overdue invoices costs at each, and why the age of the debt moves the fee more than the agency does.

Operations

Digital Mailroom Cost and Pricing for Mail Scanning Services

A business digital mailroom costs about $60 to $360 a month for 100 letters opened and scanned and $770 to $3,100 for 1,000, on published US plans. Here are 13 providers priced on the same workload, the per page and per piece overages, and the fees outside the plan.

Billing

Lockbox Services Pricing and Bank Lockbox Fees per Item by Bank

A bank lockbox costs about $0.27 to $0.57 per check on current published fee schedules, plus $105 to $300 a month and a setup fee. Here are six banks priced on the same workload at 200, 1,000 and 5,000 checks a month, and the line items that decide the bill.