Thanks to OptBlue®, over 1.5 million places in the US started accepting American Express® Cards in 20171. Not one of them?
Here’s what it means to say yes.
Get paid at the same time as your other card brands, so all your card payments come to you at once.
Receive a single statement from your processor for all the credit cards you accept.
Your processor can answer questions for every card you accept through them.
Better rates
With OptBlue, you have options. Your processor sets your American Express Rate – just like they do for the other card brands you accept.
Contact your processor directly for more information on your rate.
With OptBlue, you have options. Because your processor sets your American Express Rate—just like they do for the other card brands you accept—you can shop around for the best rate for your business. Contact a processor directly to get started.
Participating Processors
Valuable customers
Business is better with diverse Card Members who spend more, more often, online and off.
On average, the annual spend of an American Express® Card Member is 3.1X that of non-Card Members2
On average, American Express Card Members spend $14K+ annually on their Card3
On average, the transaction size of an American Express Card Member is 1.8X that of non-Card Members4
Free marketing
From getting recommended to Card Members to signage that shows customers they can pay the way they want, get the tools that can help you reach potential customers
We know attracting customers is important to you.
That’s why we recommend businesses like yours to our Card Members for free.
We choose Card Members based on where and how they spend.
And could feature your business in our emails to them, in their online accounts and in search results on the Shop Small® Map.
Which means more exposure to Card Members who may be more likely to spend with you.
Promoting your business to Card Members is just one of the many ways we have your back.
We know attracting customers is important to you.
That’s why we recommend businesses like yours to our Card Members for free.
We choose Card Members based on where and how they spend.
And could feature your business in our emails to them, in their online accounts and in search results on the Shop Small® Map.
Which means more exposure to Card Members who may be more likely to spend with you.
Promoting your business to Card Members is just one of the many ways we have your back.
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1. Based on internal comparison of American Express small merchant locations in December 2016 to American Express small merchant locations in December 2017.
2. Nilson Report #1,103, February 2018. Spend per card derived from U.S. year-end purchase volume divided by year-end cards in force (CIF), not from individual consumer-level data. CIF represents the number of cards issued and outstanding with cardholders. Average Non–American Express spend per card includes Visa, MasterCard and Discover credit and charge card volume and CIF and excludes debit volume and CIF.
3. Nilson Report #1,125, February 2018. Spend per card derived from U.S. year-end purchase volume divided by year-end cards in force (CIF), not from individual consumer-level data. CIF represents the number of cards issued and outstanding with cardholders. Average Non-American Express spend per card includes Visa, MasterCard and Discover credit and charge card volume and CIF and excludes debit volume and CIF.
4. Nilson Report #1,103, February 2018. Transaction Size derived from U.S. year-end purchase volume divided by year-end purchase transactions, not from individual consumer-level data. Average Non-American Express transaction size includes Visa, MasterCard and Discover credit and charge cards and excludes debit volume and transactions.