Small tickets. Big fees.
A $3 coffee on Square at 2.65% + 10¢ is an effective rate of nearly 6%. C-stores get crushed by per-transaction fees because the math is brutal on small tickets. Dough's interchange-plus pricing or dual pricing usually cuts your processing bill in half — plus Boost gets you a free shop website and Google review card to bring in repeat customers. Cheap Interac debit. Fast checkout. Two-day switch.
See what your store would save
Send us your last statement and we'll show you exactly what your store's monthly bill would be on Dough — plus which Boost tier your volume qualifies for.
Small tickets break flat-rate processing. Most C-store owners don't realize it.
A 2.65% + 10¢ rate looks fine on paper. On a $3 coffee, it works out to almost 6%. On a $5 pack of smokes, it's nearly 4%. Across a thousand small sales a week, you're hemorrhaging fees most owners never bother to calculate.
The 10¢ transaction fee is the killer
Square's "2.65%" rate forgets to mention the 10¢ per swipe. On a $4 sale, that 10¢ is another 2.5% — your real effective rate is closer to 5.15%.
Interac debit charged like credit
Most processors bill debit at 0.5%-1% per transaction. On $50K of Interac sales, that's $250-$500/mo. Dough charges $0.04 flat on Interac — usually under $50/mo for the same volume.
Slow checkout costs customers
If your terminal is laggy on contactless payments, the lunch-rush line moves slower, and customers who can't wait two minutes walk out. A faster terminal pays for itself in throughput.
You have no online presence at all
No website. No Google business profile. No reviews. New customers who Google "convenience store [your neighbourhood]" never find you. Boost fixes the digital basics on Dough's dime.
Three reasons high-volume small-ticket stores switch and stay.
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Cheap Interac kills the per-transaction tax.
Interac is half your business. Most processors charge 0.5%-1% on each debit swipe. Dough charges $0.04 flat. On a store doing $30K of Interac a month at 2,000 swipes, that's $250 saved per month on debit alone — before we even start on credit.
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Dual pricing lets you eat the fee on cards or pass it cleanly.
Most C-stores already post separate cash and card prices for gas. Dual pricing applies the same idea to the whole store — your price board shows both prices, customers self-select, and the math works for everyone. Legal in every province including Quebec.
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Boost finally gets your store online.
Corner stores almost universally have no website, no Google business profile, and no review presence. New residents to the neighbourhood Google "convenience store" and never find you. Boost rebuilds the basics — review card on the counter, simple website, Google profile, monthly social — funded by fees you're already paying.
$40K/mo C-store on Square, switching to IC+
Estimate based on a typical C-store card mix (60% Interac, 40% credit) and average ticket of $8. Real savings depend on transaction count, ticket size, and credit/debit split. Send your last statement and we'll show you the exact math.
The terminal that keeps the line moving.
Fast checkout, fast contactless, fast receipts. Built for high-volume small-ticket counters.
Clover Mini
Compact countertop unit. Built-in receipt printer. Fast tap, chip, swipe, and contactless. Designed for high-throughput retail lines — coffee runs, lottery, smokes, drinks.
- Tap, chip, swipe, contactless
- Built-in receipt printer
- Fast contactless checkout
- Email receipts (optional)
- Free if your store qualifies
Clover Station Duo
Full POS with customer-facing display. For larger stores running multiple registers, gift card programs, or full inventory tracking.
Second Clover Mini
For stores with two checkout lanes or a separate gas-pump-payment counter. Both link to the same merchant account.
Ingenico Desk/5000
Traditional wired countertop unit. Lower profile, simpler interface for stores that don't need Clover's app ecosystem.
Newland N910
Wireless option backed by Elavon. Useful if your store also does sidewalk sales or delivery.
Terminal pricing depends on which contract you sign — month-to-month or four-year term with a free terminal. See all our terminal options →
The numbers most C-store owners don't realize they're losing.
"I was on Square for years because it was easy. Switched to Dough and dropped about $800 a month off my bill. The Interac alone was costing me a fortune. Plus they set up a website for the store — I've never had one in 12 years of running this place."
A typical Canadian corner store — anonymized example, $40K/mo card volume
Most C-stores look like this — high transaction count, small tickets, on Square because it was the easiest thing to set up. Switching to interchange-plus pricing with $0.04 Interac debit typically saves $500-$1,000 a month. Most owners qualify for the Pro tier of the Boost program — a five-page website, hosted free.
Typical store numbers
The online presence corner stores almost never have.
Most C-stores have no website, no Google business profile, no review presence. Boost handles all of that — funded by the processing fees you're already paying somebody.
Store website built for you
One to five pages depending on your tier. Hours, location, products, contact, photo gallery. Mobile-friendly. Hosted free at Pro and Premium tiers.
Monthly social content
Posts for Facebook and Instagram every month — graphics and captions. New product announcements, lottery winners, neighbourhood callouts. Up to 12 posts a month at Premium tier.
Custom AI assistant
A GPT trained on your store's hours, products, and FAQs. Customers can ask "are you open right now" or "do you sell lotto" — answers right on your site.
Google review card
Free at every tier. A tap-to-review NFC card for the counter. Customers tap, leave a Google review on the way out. Reviews drive walk-ins from people Googling your neighbourhood.
If it has a counter and a cooler, we can help.
Smoke shops, dépanneurs, ethnic grocers, gas C-stores — same pricing principles apply.
Quick answers, no fluff.
The questions every C-store owner asks before switching. If yours isn't here, call us at (647) 691-9085.
Dual pricing (separate posted prices for cash vs card) works well because customers expect to see both on the price board. Interchange-plus is the simpler option and still cuts the fee significantly versus flat-rate processors.
If you run lottery, you'll keep your existing OLG/Loto-Québec lottery terminal — Dough handles the regular sales side.
Lottery is processed through your provincial lottery terminal (OLG, Loto-Québec, WCLC) not through Dough — that's how it works at every processor. Same setup as you have now, just lower fees on the regular retail side.
On Dough's interchange-plus pricing the same sale runs much closer to wholesale interchange. C-stores with high transaction counts but small tickets often see the biggest percentage improvement when they switch.
For larger stores or multi-register setups, the Clover Station Duo gives you a customer-facing display and full POS features. See all terminal options →
Visa Debit and Mastercard Debit run as debit cards, also at low flat fees. Across a high-volume C-store, this alone can save hundreds of dollars per month versus a typical processor.
Higher-volume stores qualify for the Pro tier with a free five-page website hosted free. See the full Boost tiers →
Make more dough from every sale at the counter.
Send us your last statement. We'll show you exactly what your store would save and which Boost tier you'd qualify for. No commitment, no pushy reps.