Make patient checkout simple, professional, and easy to manage.
Clover gives dental offices a straightforward way to accept patient payments at the front desk, review transactions, issue receipts, and keep payment activity organized from one secure system.
- ✓ Accept chip cards, contactless payments, digital wallets, HSA cards, and FSA cards at your front desk.
- ✓ Quickly enter a patient’s payment amount without building complicated menus, services, or treatment categories.
- ✓ Review transactions, process refunds, provide receipts, and monitor payment activity from your Clover dashboard.
Clover Flex or Clover Mini: which is better for your dental office?
Both devices can accept patient payments, print receipts, and provide access to Clover reporting. The main decision is whether your dental office wants a portable handheld device or a fixed front-desk terminal.
Clover Flex Gen 4
A portable, all-in-one payment terminal that can stay at the front desk or move throughout your dental office.
Clover Mini Gen 3
A compact countertop Clover terminal with a larger screen and a stable, professional checkout setup for your reception desk.
You take care of your patients. We will handle your Clover setup.
Dental offices usually do not need a complicated retail or restaurant POS setup. We help you choose the right device, configure a simple patient-payment workflow, train your front-desk team, and provide a real person to call or text when questions come up.
Work with a real Clover Expert.
Get personalized setup and ongoing support from someone who
understands Clover and simple dental-office payment workflows.
Personalized dental-office setup.
We keep Clover simple and build it around how your dental office collects patient payments.
Good hardware, more self-service.
A reasonable option for dental offices comfortable choosing and setting up the system themselves.
Support and pricing can vary.
The experience depends heavily on the company, contract, and individual representative.
Limelight keeps your dental payment setup simple.
The more your practice processes, the lower your rates can be.
Dental offices processing more than $20,000 per month may qualify for custom wholesale pricing. Smaller and newer practices can start with simple flat rates and move into custom pricing as their volume grows.
Wholesale pricing built around your actual volume.
Instead of paying one high flat percentage on every card, qualifying dental offices can use interchange-plus pricing. You pay the actual wholesale card cost plus Limelight’s fixed markup.
Added to the actual wholesale interchange and network cost for each transaction.
A practical estimate for many qualifying dental offices based on a typical card mix.
Your effective rate is the average percentage you actually paid after all processing costs are included.
Low starter rates with a path to custom pricing.
New dental offices processing less than $20,000 per month can begin with simple flat rates, including the same credit rate for swiped or manually entered cards.
Simple flat pricing, but mostly self-service.
Clover Direct can work for an office that already knows what it needs and is comfortable handling setup and support through Clover.
Low introductory pricing can become very expensive.
Some providers lead with an attractive starting rate, then increase pricing or add fees after the dental office is locked into an agreement.
Your lowest quoted rate is not always your real processing cost.
The 2.40% effective rate is an estimate, not a guaranteed rate. Actual effective cost varies based on card mix, transaction size, debit usage, rewards and commercial cards, monthly volume, chargebacks, and applicable interchange, network, regulatory, and account fees. Limelight pricing is subject to merchant approval and final written agreement. “As high as 5%” describes a possible effective cost some merchants may experience after rate increases and added fees; it is not a claim that every reseller charges this amount.
Make patient payments simpler.
Get competitive processing rates, professional Clover hardware, personalized setup, and a real payment expert your dental office can call or text directly.
Get a Dental Payment Quote →Dental processing questions, answered clearly.
Learn how Limelight prices new dental offices, how custom pricing works above $20,000 per month, what an effective rate means, and what to review before choosing a payment processor.
How does Limelight price dental offices processing less than $20,000 per month?
New dental offices expecting to process less than $20,000 per month can begin with simple starter pricing. The current starter rates are 1.55% + 15¢ for PIN debit, 2.60% + 10¢ for Visa, Mastercard, and Discover, and 2.99% + 15¢ for American Express. Final pricing is subject to merchant approval and the written agreement.
What pricing is available for dental offices processing more than $20,000 per month?
Dental offices processing more than $20,000 per month may qualify for custom interchange-plus pricing. A common qualifying offer is the actual wholesale interchange and network cost plus a Limelight markup of 0.50% + 8¢ per transaction. The final offer depends on monthly volume, average ticket, card mix, processing history, and other underwriting factors.
What does an estimated 2.40% overall effective rate mean?
An effective rate is the total processing cost divided by total card sales. For example, if a dental office processes $100,000 and pays $2,400 in total processing costs, the effective rate is 2.40%. It is an estimate rather than a guaranteed rate because the actual result changes based on debit usage, rewards cards, commercial cards, transaction size, and other fees.
Why can a higher-volume dental office receive lower rates?
Higher monthly volume can make custom pricing more practical because the processor can evaluate the office’s real transaction history and card mix instead of using one flat rate for every payment. In general, the more a qualifying dental office processes, the lower its markup may be.
Does Limelight charge a higher rate when a card is manually entered?
For dental offices using the starter flat-rate program, the Visa, Mastercard, and Discover credit rate stays the same whether the card is tapped, inserted, swiped, or manually entered. American Express is priced separately at 2.99% + 15¢. Custom interchange-plus pricing works differently because the underlying wholesale cost varies by transaction type and card.
Are debit cards charged at the same rate as credit cards?
Not under Limelight’s starter pricing. PIN debit begins at 1.55% + 15¢, which is lower than the Visa, Mastercard, and Discover credit rate of 2.60% + 10¢. This can benefit dental offices that accept a meaningful number of debit-card payments.
What is included with Limelight’s Clover support?
Limelight helps with device selection, application setup, Clover activation, employee access, receipt settings, refunds, basic training, and everyday payment questions. You also have a direct person to call or text instead of relying only on a general support number.
How is Limelight different from buying Clover directly?
Buying directly from Clover can be more self-service. Your office may need to choose the hardware, configure the system, and call Clover’s main support line when problems arise. Limelight adds personal setup guidance, direct account support, and help understanding pricing, statements, deposits, and equipment.
Can processing rates change over time?
They can. Card-network costs, regulatory fees, account pricing, and provider markups may change. Limelight reviews the pricing structure with you before activation and can help explain future statement changes. Always review the full agreement rather than relying only on one advertised percentage.
Can some dental offices really pay close to 5% in total processing costs?
Yes, an office’s effective cost can approach 5% when high processing rates, keyed-entry surcharges, monthly fees, annual fees, nonqualified pricing, equipment charges, and other add-ons are combined. This does not mean every provider charges 5%, which is why reviewing the full statement and effective rate is important.
Does Limelight require a long-term equipment lease?
Limelight generally steers dental offices away from long-term equipment leases. Equipment leases can continue even after a processing account is closed and may require the remaining balance to be paid in full. Your hardware and agreement terms should be reviewed before you sign.
How can I find out which pricing option is best for my dental office?
Share your expected monthly card volume, average transaction amount, and whether the office is new or already processing. Limelight can compare the starter flat-rate option with custom interchange-plus pricing and explain which structure is likely to make more sense.
Talk through your dental payment setup with a real Clover expert.
We can review your expected volume, current processing statement, hardware needs, and whether flat-rate or custom wholesale pricing makes more sense for your practice.
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