Verisurge is a payment processor with a compliant credit card surcharge program built into the core of the product — registered with the card brands, disclosed at checkout, and live in days, not months.
Most legal-vertical processors added surcharging after the fact. Verisurge was built around it.
This is the order it happens in — each step depends on the one before it.
Verisurge submits your 30-day card-brand notice to Visa, Mastercard, and Discover the day you sign up — no separate paperwork on your end.
Choose a surcharge rate capped at your actual processing cost. We calculate the ceiling for you so you're never over the allowed limit.
Checkout pages, invoices, and terminals automatically show the surcharge before the client pays — required, and handled for you.
Card-brand surcharge rules are specific, and getting them wrong creates real liability. Verisurge keeps every account inside the lines automatically.
Every client payment — surcharge included — deposits at full gross value into the correct account, trust or operating, at the moment of payment. Nothing is netted out at the transaction level, because nothing is allowed to touch IOLTA except the client's own funds.
Verisurge's fees settle separately: processing costs, the platform fee, and any referral obligations are aggregated across the month and swept as a single line-item debit from the firm's operating account — never trust. One predictable draw a month, reconciled once, instead of a fee split trusted on every transaction.
Clio is discontinuing its native LawPay integration on August 31, 2026 — every firm running Clio with LawPay will need to select a new processor before then. Verisurge is built to make that transition straightforward.
Verisurge integrates with QuickBooks and Clio through a partner connection, so trust deposits and the monthly fee sweep line up with the books you're already keeping.
Our onboarding team pulls your historical LawPay and QuickBooks data and remaps it for you — client ledgers, matter history, and open invoices included. Not a CSV export handed to your office manager.
Run Verisurge alongside LawPay for a full billing cycle. Your bookkeeper checks the numbers against your existing books before anyone flips the switch.
A rough monthly estimate based on typical card-processing volume.
A South Jordan, Utah-based firm processing roughly $323K/month in card volume implemented Verisurge's compliant surcharge program and recovered approximately 3% in monthly processing costs — money that now goes straight back to the firm's bottom line instead of card fees.
| Month | Volume | Saved |
|---|---|---|
| April | $312,400 | $9,372 |
| May | $329,800 | $9,894 |
| June | $318,650 | $9,560 |
| July | $334,200 | $10,026 |
| August | $321,950 | $9,659 |
| Total | $323,400 avg | $48,510 |
Straight answers to the questions that come up in every one of these calls.
Yes, in most states — when it's done correctly. That means the surcharge is capped at your actual cost of accepting the card, disclosed to the cardholder before they pay, and preceded by a 30-day notice filed with the card networks. Verisurge handles all three automatically on every account. It's never permitted on debit or prepaid cards, and a handful of states — Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, and Puerto Rico — restrict it outright, regardless of processor.
Nothing about how it works changes. Every client payment — surcharge included — deposits at full gross value into the correct account, trust or operating, the moment it's paid. Nothing is netted out at the transaction level, because nothing is allowed to touch IOLTA except the client's own funds. Verisurge's fees settle separately, once a month, as a single line-item pulled from your operating account only.
Yes. If your state doesn't allow surcharging, your account is automatically routed to Verisurge's flat-rate processing structure at signup instead — no surcharge program, but still a transparent, compliant rate with no risk of running afoul of state law. You don't need to do anything differently; we detect it and configure the account correctly from day one.
Once your account is approved, you're live in 5–10 business days. That window includes a full billing cycle running Verisurge alongside LawPay in parallel, so your bookkeeper can confirm the numbers match before anyone actually cuts over. Nothing switches until you've seen it work.
There's no deadline to use Verisurge specifically, but Clio is discontinuing its native LawPay integration on August 31, 2026 — so if your firm runs Clio and LawPay together, you'll need to select a processor before that date regardless of which one you choose. It's worth starting that evaluation now rather than in August.
Yes — Verisurge now integrates with QuickBooks and Clio through a partner connection. Trust deposits post at full gross value like any normal transaction, and Verisurge's fees settle as a single line item once a month rather than a per-transaction fee split. MyCase and PracticePanther aren't supported yet; our team handles that migration manually during onboarding.
Card-brand rules don't allow surcharging debit or prepaid transactions, so those run on a flat processing rate instead — applied automatically, with no separate setup or action needed on your end.
No. There's no minimum monthly volume required to get started — the savings scale with your processing volume, so firms doing higher volume see the most dramatic recovery, but there's no cutoff below which you don't qualify. Run your own volume through the calculator above, or get started and we'll tell you honestly what the numbers look like for your firm.
Yes. Alongside compliant card surcharging, Verisurge supports ACH bank transfers at 1% per transaction, capped at $25 — worth considering for larger transactions like retainers or settlements, where a capped ACH fee often beats a percentage-based card fee even after surcharging. We can help you figure out which payment types make sense where.
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