We have designed the Kentuckiana Trade Exchange from the ground up to be a transformative barter exchange. We're not a corporation and we utilize open source software to reduce our overhead cost. We're a Kentucky registered non-profit. Any excess fees, after our monthly overhead, is refunded to our members in the form of new services or donations to a member non-profit.

To cover our overhead, our system charges a small brokerage fee in cash (10%) each time a member uses barter credits to make a transaction with another member on our site. We do not charge a monthly membership fee in either trade or cash, and our yearly membership fee is currently waived. This fee is applied only to transactions which result in the transfer of credits from a member to another member.

Placing your credit card on file with us is very simple. When you make your first purchase in our system, you will recieve an e-mailed invoice from our payment processor, Stripe, which outlines the fee for that transaction. Your first purchase will be in a "pending" state while we wait for you to open this e-mail. Once you've recieved the invoice, please open and pay it immediately with a major credit or debit card.

Invoice payments are entirely performed within Stripe and are PCI-Compliant. We accept every major credit and debit card, including Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. The credit card you use for this transaction will be placed on file with Stripe and used for all other cash brokerage fees from that point forward.

Currently you are not able to update this card information in your member account and it must be manually updated by one of our staff. If you'd like to update the card, please call our office at (502) 996-8809. In the near future this option will be available to you in your account.