Your payment costs and performance can both be better.
Independent payment optimisation for retailers and brands. EcomStream renegotiates PSP costs, runs payment RFPs and manages payment performance on merchant mandate, across online, POS and unified commerce.
Before founding EcomStream in 2017, Ramon Helwegen worked on the provider side, at Verizon, Ingenico and EMS. No PSP mandates, no acquirer partnerships and no revenue share with providers.
Results in the clients’ own words
“Our payment setup needed optimising, so we brought Ramon in as our expert, someone who would firmly take our side with the PSPs.”
“Together we managed to achieve significant savings on the costs of the Payment Provider using a rational approach.”
“With EcomStream we are saving 20 per cent on our operational costs regarding payments.”
How it works
Nothing is asked of you before the first conversation.
A half-hour call
You describe your payment set-up and what is coming up: a contract that ends, a new market or platform, or payments that underperform. You hear which of the four services fits, or that none does.
What the work runs on
Your PSP contract and invoices for a cost engagement, your requirements and volumes for a payment RFP, your PSP reporting for Managed Performance Optimisation, the role for interim work.
A written proposal
Scope, planning and how the work is paid, set out before anything starts.
The engagement
EcomStream manages it from beginning to end, through the provider conversations to the result. What your team keeps is the decision.
Questions merchants ask first
We have run our contract through AI
AI tells you what your contract says. It cannot tell you what comparable merchants pay, because that is not published. EcomStream establishes where you stand against the market benchmark, then negotiates to beat it, not just to meet it.
We are locked into a contract
A remaining term binds the relationship, not the price. Rates sit in a pricing schedule that can be amended without reopening the agreement, restarting the term or touching your integration.
Our provider should not know we brought someone in
It does not have to. In silent partner mode the provider deals only with your team, from the first request to the signed contract.
We have no capacity for this
That is the purpose of the model. In all four services EcomStream manages the project from beginning to end, from the analysis through the provider conversations to the result. What your team keeps is the decision.
Clients EcomStream worked for
Read the client cases
Rated 5.0 on Google. Ramon’s work on payments has been published by Consultancy.nl, Emerce, Frankwatching and Henry Stewart Publications.
What EcomStream does
Cut your PSP costs
PSP cost optimisation
Your current contract, renegotiated on your mandate.
No cure, no pay. No upfront fee.
Get more from your PSP
Managed Performance Optimisation
Performance and contract terms, acted on every month.
A fixed monthly fee.
Or look up what providers publish
The Retail Payment Methods Transparency Index shows, per payment method, which providers offer it in your market and the price each one publishes, read at source.