Profit-Sharing Incentive System For Account Vendors

A system, comprising:

• a computing device;
• an incentivizing engine associated with the computing device for estimating a potential profit associated with a merchant account, the merchant account enabling a merchant to accept credit card transactions for payment of goods and services;
• and
• wherein the incentivizing engine indicates to the merchant via a communication an amount of an up-front profit share as an incentive for opening the merchant account.

A system, comprising:

• a computing device;
• a profit sharing engine for estimating a potential profit associated with a merchant account, the merchant account enabling a merchant to accept credit card transactions for payment of goods and services;
• and
• a user interface for displaying an up-front profit share of the potential profit to the merchant as an incentive for opening the merchant account.

A method, comprising:

• marketing merchant accounts for enabling merchants to use credit card transactions for receiving payments;
• estimating an up-front profit share for individual potential merchant accounts;
• and
• transferring an indication of the up-front profit share to each merchant associated with a corresponding potential merchant account as an incentive for opening the merchant account.