Handling Fees

We encourage payment by credit card (Paying by Credit Card), and discourage payments by wire or cheque (Payment Methods).

There is a surcharge ("handling fee") of 7% on the invoice if the invoice is not paid by credit card, which covers the bank fees and an in-house fee for the additional processing work.

Payments by wire transfer or cheque also often add many weeks of extra time after acceptance of a manuscript, distorting our key success metric of timely publication (days from acceptance to publication).

If you are the representative or financial officer of an institution, please talk to us (support@jmir.org) about other forms to make payment more efficient.

Institutional Memberships

If you are receiving funding through membership in an institutional deal, the 7% handling fee will be waived. 

Please contact your institutional librarian or JMIR for more information about institutional memberships. You can also navigate to "Transform to Open Science": Transformative Institutional Memberships and Plan P – JMIR Publications.

Related:

• Payment Methods
• Paying by Credit Card
• Can I pay by wire/bank transfer? Where is your bank account information?
• Why has a 7% handling fee been added to my invoice and how can I switch to credit card payments?