Vexutopia has lowered its gift-card payment fee and changed how merchants receive partially paid orders, according to product updates dated October 2-5. The changes affect its hosted checkout, where customers purchase a USD gift-card code through a linked store and enter it to fund an order. [S01] [S02]

The October 3 entry reduces the fee from 16% plus $1 to 14% plus $1 for payments completed from that date, including checkouts opened earlier. Reseller pricing is unchanged. [S01]

The data behind the story

Vexutopia lowers the percentage part of its gift-card fee

Published gift-card-specific pricing before and from October 3, 2026.

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Vexutopia October 3, 2026 changelog

Each rate also carries a fixed USD1 per transaction; the chart shows only the percentage component. Reseller pricing is unchanged. General merchant-agreement rates remain different and unreconciled.

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Vexutopia lowers the percentage part of its gift-card fee (%)
CategoryPercentage component
Previous percentage fee16%
From October 3, 202614%

These figures come from the dedicated gift-card documentation and October release notes. The general merchant agreement still lists different, volume-based platform rates; the operator has not reconciled that older page with the gift-card-specific schedule. [S01] [S02] [S05]

An October 2 change makes accepted codes count toward an order even

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