Scheme Invoices represent a large, often unnoticed savings opportunity for most card issuers and acquirers.
Substantial savings can typically be made in a short time frame, with little resource requirement, and with no system integration.
Monitor and visualize fee performance to surface changes and their financial impact.
Our platform ingests scheme invoices and automatically flags new, increased, or misapplied fees, providing a clear view of fee trends over time.
Scheme fees can represent up to 20% of your revenue.
Analyze invoices to uncover avoidable or excessive charges.
Our Payment Economics Experts conduct a detailed review of existing fees to pinpoint areas where charges can be reduced or eliminated, using historical benchmarks and billing patterns.
We typically identify between 7% and 15% of total fees which can be avoided or eliminated.
Remediate fee issues through quick fixes and strategic initiatives.
We provide realization likelihoods for all opportunities, and provide hands-on support to prioritize initiatives and implement savings.
Clients typically convert a large proportion of the savings opportunities identified.
Monitor scheme bulletins to stay ahead of upcoming fee and compliance changes.
A cloud-based platform alerts you in real-time to new announcements and streamlines the internal response, reducing risk and improving readiness.
Bulletins have increased by 34% from '22 to '23, totaling almost 2,000 bulletins.
A scheme fee review finds your savings once. Keeping them is the harder part, because Visa and Mastercard introduce and adjust fees constantly, so costs that were optimized this quarter drift back the next.
CardTraq for Scheme Fee Tracking is how you hold the gains. The platform tracks every charge month over month, flags new and changed fees as they appear, and turns the one-time findings of a review into an ongoing, governed cost line.
We're saving our issuer and acquirer clients millions in scheme fees, every year, by applying a scheme fee review to size the opportunity, then moving onto the platform to protect and extend the savings.
Contact UsThe platform serves all Visa and Mastercard issuers and acquirers globally, as well as most ISOs, helping them save millions annually by identifying charges which can be reduced, eliminated, or passed through to clients.
Fee Movements Detail gives you a single view of every charge across all schemes, countries, and subsidiaries, down to the individual fee line, so you can see exactly what you are paying and how it is trending.
New Fee by Month isolates fees that appear for the first time, including one-off charges like fines, so you can spot, question, and contest them before they become recurring.
Fee Decomposition breaks total scheme cost into its components and tracks over time, so you can compare across schemes, geographies, and subsidiaries.
Period-on-Period Change in Fees shows how each fee category has moved between periods, which gives you the basis to budget accurately, price products, and negotiate with the schemes from evidence.
Private Equity-owned issuer of Mastercard prepaid cards across US, Australia, UK, and Republic of Ireland.
A NASDAQ-listed global payments company with card issuing businesses across multiple continents.
A European issuer of commercial cards across multiple geographies.
A top 10 acquirer operating across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Our clients typically achieve 40–80% realization of savings identified, analysis is completed in 4–6 weeks, and the majority of savings are realized within months.
Our optional Forecasting & Accruals Accounting add-on calculates accrued scheme fees, such as quarterly and annual fees, and forecasts future fees from input volumes by jurisdiction. Outputs inform budgeting, pricing decisions, and scheme deal negotiations.
Can you clearly explain what you are paying Visa and Mastercard in scheme fees, and what is driving those costs? If not, you are not alone, and the opportunity is usually larger than expected once the drivers become visible.
Our free guide explains how Visa and Mastercard scheme fees work, how they are assessed, who pays them, and why they continue to rise faster than payment volumes.
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Our experts can work alongside your team to identify and implement savings opportunities and ensure you get the maximum value from the CardTraq platforms.
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