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When you use a debit card at, let's say, the grocery store, the bank keeps a small percentage of what you paid and gives the remaining balance to the grocery store. So if you bought $50 of groceries, the bank would keep approx. $2 and only give the grocery store $48. These are called merchant or ACH fees. The same is true of credit cards but the merchant fees for credit cards are higher than they are for a debit card. That is why most businesses prefer that you use your debit card over your credit card because they will pay a lower merchant fee on the transaction. The reason businesses take debit and credit cards even though they lose a percentage of the sale is because they bet they will make more sales if they offer these forms of payment than if they only take cash. So they pay a little bit to make more sales. In the end, this ends up being a very smart and profitable strategy since few people carry cash anymore.

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