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Overseas Card Fees: What Tourist-Facing Businesses Pay

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I'll start by checking the current provider pricing pages and the regulator guidance on dynamic currency conversion. I haven't written the article yet. The search results didn't give me the pages your rules require, so I can't check the prices and rules sentence by sentence. **What's missing:** - **Provider pricing pages:** I got no official pages from flatpay.com, squareup.com, sumup.com, zettle.com or stripe.com. The competitor rates I found came from third-party comparison sites, which your rules don't allow me to use as sources. - **Regulator and legal pages:** I got none from GOV.UK, legislation.gov.uk, the PSR, the FCA, UK Finance, the CMA, Citizens Advice or the PCI Security Standards Council. The dynamic currency conversion rules I found came from secondary sites. - **Conflicting figures:** The third-party sources disagree on some rates. **What I could verify:** One Flatpay page (flatpay.com/en-gb/blog/credit-card-machine-fees-explained) says with no monthly fees, no upfront cost for the card terminal, and a flat 1.49% transaction rate, it's easier to predict what you'll pay . That is the only provider rate I can attribute to a provider's own page. The same page's comparison table puts typical UK card machine transaction fees at roughly 1.5% to 1.75%, which I could use for the fairness point. Writing the full article on this base would mean either leaving out most of what you asked for (the Square, Stripe, SumUp and Zettle rates, dynamic currency conversion, and the hotel, gallery, golf and gift shop sections) or using unsourced figures. I'm not willing to do the second. **Next step:** I'll need to run targeted searches for the official provider pricing pages and the regulator and legislation pages you listed. Once those are retrieved, I can write the article in the format you specified, with worked examples labelled as examples and only the approved internal links.

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