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Cut your PSP costs and lift payment performance
From the checkout to settlement.
Independent PSP cost and performance improvement for retailers and brands
One portfolio, four services, applied according to what your payment set-up is costing you. Every engagement is handled personally by Ramon Helwegen. Merchants only, never PSPs or acquirers.
PSP cost optimisation, the payment RFP and managed performance optimisation are engagements EcomStream executes on your mandate, from the analysis through to the result, and most clients run more than one of them over a contract cycle. Interim assignments sit alongside them, for when the gap is in your team rather than in your payment set-up. Start with whichever one matches what you believe your payment set-up needs. If you would rather understand the mechanics first, the knowledge pages set out what card payments actually cost and why transactions fail.
Cut your PSP costs
What you pay today, set against the benchmark for your profile, then renegotiated with your existing PSP, aiming for rates below it. Purely commercial, so your integration stays where it is.
For a contract that auto-renewed, volume that has grown into a lower tier, or an invoice nobody has ever questioned.
No cure, no pay. No fixed cost and no switch of provider: no financial and no operational risk.
How the renegotiation runs
Run a payment RFP
The full RFP on your mandate, from the first data pull to the signed contract. You approve the shortlist and take the decision, EcomStream does the work in between.
For new markets, a move to unified commerce, a replatform, or a renewal you will only sign once you have seen the rest of the market.
No cure, no pay. Implementation support through the migration is optional.
How the RFP runs
Get more from your PSP
Managed Performance Optimisation. Your payment set-up kept under watch month after month: performance analysed and corrected, the configuration at your provider checked, action taken on what has been left undone, your quarterly review run on your mandate, and the contract calendar watched so notice periods, auto-renewals and scheme fee bulletins do not pass unnoticed. The outcome is reported in euros of recovered margin. Three arrangements. The same work in all three, and what differs is how long anything can stay unseen.
For declines you cannot explain, or a new payment method or market that needs an independent analysis before launch. A rate cut does not lift authorisation. Run this alongside cost work and the two multiply: a lower cost per transaction, applied to more transactions that complete.
An ongoing arrangement. No upfront fee, a fixed fee per month.
What it delivers each month
Interim work
Senior payment expertise inside your organisation for a defined period, translating stakeholder requirements into a payment set-up that holds up commercially.
For a vacancy, a migration or a launch that needs a payments lead now, without adding permanent headcount.
A rate based on the hours worked.
How an interim assignment runs
One conversation is enough to know whether there is anything here
A thirty-minute Teams call, on your own figures. Nothing to prepare, the outline is enough.
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