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Montana Farmers Market EBT Manual
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How to authorize your market to accept food stamps

EBT machineDownload or order application from the USDA Food and Nutrition Service.
Order by calling: 1-877-823-4369
FNS Application to become an Authorized EBT Retailer

Mail application in to Helena FNS office:
Food and Nutirition Service
Montana Field Office, Helena (303)
10 Weset 15th Street
Suite 1500
Helena, MT 59626
406-441-1190

See manual for more details.

 

Choosing a Third Party Provider

While accepting both EBT and Debit/ Credit cards may boost sales for your market vendors, there is a cost that needs to be accounted for with machine purchase and fees from a third party vendor. This downloadable spreadsheet [MS Excel/23K] is a comparison of local and national third party vendor fees and machine costs in an Excel spreadsheet format. The formulas in the spreadsheet will allow you to manipulate some of the numbers, such as the number of transactions and the fees.

 

More Information on Starting and Maintaining a SNAP/EBT Project

Farmers Market Coalition Resource Library (online)

  • The Famers Market Coalition has a national resource list on the topic of accepting vouchers, EBT, and credit cards at farmers markets.

MarketUmbrella.org -- market inovations section

  • Free documents that feature the best of "lessons learned" from public markets everyhwere.

 

Using an EBT machine.

 

 
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