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Merchant Services Audit & Consulting

Lower Your Merchant Fees Without Switching Banks or Processors

Contingency-based merchant services auditing and consulting. No savings, no fee.

Send 90 days of statements. Get a written savings estimate back. No sales call required.

$25B+
Monthly Receivables Audited
0
Vendor Changes Required
100%
Contingency-Based Engagements
EFFECTIVE RATE · UNAUDITED Benchmark Overpayment 15-40% Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 Costs that compound for years, unnoticed.
The Problem

Your Processor Is Not on Your Side

Credit card processing is one of the largest line items most companies never audit. For a mid-sized operator, it can run into seven or eight figures a year. For a PE-backed portfolio, it compounds across every business. And in almost every case, no one inside the organization is auditing it line by line.

Statements are buried in interchange codes, surcharges, assessments, and pass-through fees that almost no finance team has the bandwidth or the benchmark data to decode. Processors design it that way. Tiered rates absorb downgrades that should be passed through. Junk fees get added between renewals. By the time someone notices the effective rate has crept up, it has been costing the business for years.

Most companies overpay by 15 to 40 percent and never know it.

That money is sitting in your P&L right now. We find it, we recover it, and we make sure it stays recovered. No new vendors. No operational disruption. No risk to the engagement, because if we do not deliver savings, you do not pay.

Find Out What You Are Overpaying
What We Do

Four Ways We Recover What You Are Overpaying

From the first audit to long-term monitoring, every engagement is built to find hidden costs and keep them out, without touching your existing relationships.

01 / Audit

Merchant Services Audit

Full Transparency Into Every Line Item You Are Paying For

Statements are intentionally complex, and processors rely on that complexity to bury margin. We review your ERP, payment gateway, merchant services contracts, and current pricing structures, then reverse-engineer every line-item cost from interchange to assessments to processor markup. You get a clear, written breakdown of your true all-in cost and a side-by-side view of exactly where you are being overcharged.

  • A complete, plain-English picture of your processing costs
  • Hidden surcharges, padded interchange, and inflated markups identified
  • A documented savings opportunity before you commit to anything
Learn More About Our Audit Process
AUDIT · LINE-ITEM REVIEW Illustrative Interchange Pass-through Assessments Verified Processor Markup OVERCHARGE Recover Tiered Downgrades OVERCHARGE Recover Junk & Padded Fees OVERCHARGE Recover Effective rate rebenchmarked, line by line.
02 / Recover

Fee Restructuring

Real Savings, Captured Without Switching Banks or Processors

Once we know where the overcharges are, we go to work recovering them. As your merchant advocate, we negotiate directly with your existing processor on your behalf, card type by card type. We restructure pricing, eliminate junk fees, and rebuild the contract around your actual transaction profile. No hardware swaps. No new banking partners. No point of sale changes. The savings show up in your next statement.

  • Lower effective processing rates with zero operational disruption
  • Vendor relationships preserved and often strengthened
  • Hard-dollar savings that drop straight to the bottom line
Learn More About Fee Restructuring
EFFECTIVE RATE · BEFORE / AFTER Illustrative Before After Recovered Lower rate. Same bank. Same processor.
03 / Protect

Ongoing Monitoring

Keep the Savings, Permanently

Saving money once is easy. Keeping it saved is where most companies lose ground. Processors quietly raise rates, reintroduce surcharges, and add pass-through fees over time. Through our proprietary monitoring software, we function as an extension of your finance team. We watch every statement, flag rate creep the moment it appears, and intervene with your processor before the cost lands on your P&L.

  • Statement-level monitoring across every location and merchant ID
  • Immediate alerts when fees or surcharges change
  • Long-term protection of every dollar we recover for you
Learn More About Ongoing Monitoring
RATE MONITORING · ALERTS Alert & intervention Held rate Rate creep caught before it lands on your P&L.
04 / Extend

Bank Depository Audit

Recover the Hidden Costs Sitting Inside Your Banking Relationship

Merchant fees are not the only place your money is leaking. Bank account analysis statements come with their own layer of treasury fees, service charges, earnings credit rates, and product line items that rarely get audited with the same rigor. We review every fee across every entity and account, benchmark them against what your balances and transaction volume should command, and recover the overcharges directly from your existing bank.

  • Account analysis statements reviewed line by line across every entity and account
  • Treasury fees, service charges, and earnings credit rates benchmarked against your deposit profile
  • Recovered fees and improved terms negotiated with your existing bank, no relationship disruption
Learn More About Bank Depository Audit
ACCOUNT ANALYSIS · ALL ENTITIES Acct 1 Acct 2 Acct 3 Acct 4 Treasury Fees Service Charges Earnings Credit Maintenance Recovered Reviewed Every fee, every account, benchmarked.
Free Audit

See What You Are Overpaying. In 15 Minutes.

Send us 90 days of statements. We will send back a written estimate of your annual savings opportunity. No sales call required to find out the number.

Who We Serve

Built for Complex Merchant Environments

We work with operators who take card payments at scale and need a partner who understands the difference between a broker and a real audit.

Middle Market and Enterprise

Multi-location operators, high-volume e-commerce, and complex omnichannel businesses where processing fees run into the millions.

Private Equity

We partner with PE groups to audit acquisitions during diligence and run portfolio-wide savings programs post-close. Clean EBITDA add. Zero operational risk.

Every Industry

Healthcare, hospitality, retail, B2B, SaaS, manufacturing, professional services. If you accept cards, there are savings to find.

Why Clients Choose Us

The Largest Merchant Services Audit Firm in the Country

We have audited more than $25 billion in monthly credit card receivables across middle market operators, enterprise organizations, and private equity portfolios. That scale gives us a pricing benchmark no broker, ISO, or in-house finance team can match.

No Vendor Switching

Your bank, processor, and tech stack stay in place.

Pure Contingency

No savings, no fee. We get paid when you save.

Built for Complexity

Multi-location, omnichannel, and PE-backed environments.

Ongoing Protection

Savings are monitored long after the audit closes.

News & Insights

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Find the Savings Hiding in Your Processing Statements.

Ninety days of statements is all we need to tell you exactly what you are overpaying and how much we can recover. The audit is free. The engagement is contingency-based. The risk is zero.