Due to ever-increasing fees, rule changes, shifting consumer demands, and a constantly evolving market, merchants encounter a web of complexity while striving to achieve significant cost savings and a seamless purchasing experience.
In addition to coping with a dynamic market, Global 500 merchants also grapple with a multitude of challenges in their payments supply chain, including fee transparency, data gathering, benchmarking, reporting, and more. This complexity makes it incredibly challenging for payments, treasury, and finance teams to truly maximise payments performance.
That’s where CMSPI comes in.
How we help you.
Our experts work as an extension to your team –
utilising a blend of powerful analytics, unique data
insights, and specialist expertise – to define strategies
that deliver impactful, immediate, and ongoing cost savings.
We seamlessly ingest information into the CMSPI Platform
and compare it against a unique data-lake of trillions in
consumer spend to deliver granular, transaction level insights.
We help you unlock hidden inefficiencies, enhance strategies,
and amplify your teams’ results.
Forensic Audit
+We perform a deep forensic audit of your transactions, unraveling complex fee structures to quickly identify hidden inefficiencies and ensure you’re not overpaying. We pinpoint opportunities to achieve both historic and ongoing savings.
Routing Strategies
+Our unique insights, deep data-lake, and the CMSPI Platform allows our specialists to map out optimised scenarios, drive impactful improvements to your routing set-up, and keep you in an optimal position amidst an ever-changing payments market.
Partnerships & Incentives
+Our routing specialists utilise unique data insights taken from our data-lake of trillions in consumer spend. We work with you and your supply chain partners to maximise the value of your incentive packages, SLA’s and contracts, and future-proof your arrangements.
Interchange Optimisation
+From downgrades and data rates to MCC optimisation, there are countless ways to optimise the highly expensive interchange fees that flow through to your invoices. Our experts help you uncover those opportunities and drive high-impact savings.
Alternative Payments Methods
+Our experts help you consider complexities including: the customers’ purchasing experience, new customer acquisition, cost, impact on current payments mix, and performance. We equip you with the data insights and expertise to make educated decisions.
International Transactions
+Taking payments between countries, or from international consumers, is often expensive. We help you untangle the complexity of FX margins and application, cross border fees, and DCC, utilising sophisticated intelligence tools and benchmarks to ensure you aren’t overpaying for international transactions.
Partner Selection & Performance
+We leverage our live and active market experience, unique data insights, and unrivalled visibility of the payments landscape to empower you to make to best partner selection decisions for your business. Our experts professionally manage RFP/RFIs, as well as leading incumbent negotiations.
Trusted by clients and partners
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Kate
Haller
VP, Payments Consulting
San Diego, CA
Kate is recognized in the industry for deep fashion, digital and QSR industry expertise.
Sam
Appleby
Director, Business Development
Manchester, UK
Sam has over 20 years’ experience in the payments industry and works with merchants across the globe.
Kate Haller
VP, Payments Consulting
San Diego, CA
Kate is recognized in the industry for deep fashion, digital and QSR industry expertise.
Sam Appleby
Director, Business Development
Manchester, UK
Sam has over 20 years’ experience in the payments industry and works with merchants across the globe.
Client Stories
Delivering High Impact Savings For A Prominent APAC Retailer
A prominent pharmacy retailer in Australia and New Zealand, operating a substantial network of over 500 stores, was focused on maximizing their customer experience while maintaining the lowest transaction costs.
Digital and Recurring Merchant Achieves Big Payments Cost Savings With CMSPI
After the successful completion of an audit and RFP, our experts are now focused on highlighting opportunities to drive incremental revenue growth.
CMSPI Reduces Chargebacks For Multi-Brand Restaurant Group Resulting in High Savings
Our experts provided visibility on the true impact of fraud and chargebacks, as well as inefficiencies in the current set up.
Our Process
Our process is designed to deliver high-impact savings immediately and on an ongoing basis, with low resource requirements from you.
It’s simple and seamless to partner with CMSPI – and you retain executive control at all times. Our commercial terms also reflect our commitment to driving a positive impact – we operate on a share of value delivered model, which means we share in successes.
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“Due to the unique tools we have at our disposal and our track record of delivering meaningful savings, we’re highly confident in delivering immediate and ongoing value for all enterprise merchants. Our commercial model reflects that – we rely on mutual success and we don’t get paid until we deliver results.”
“Using CMSPI’s proprietary analytical tools and data insights, the team were able to identify cost discrepancies and ensure we were driving maximal value out of our payments supply chain. CMSPI’s expertise has continued beyond this initial review to support us in our long-term payment strategy.”
“Since 2015, CMSPI has been a key strategic payments partner for A&F Co. With CMSPI’s guidance, we have worked together on projects that have increased revenue. We have also received support on cost reduction initiatives across our international payments arrangements. CMSPI provides invaluable expertise and we look forward to continuing our partnership.”
“CMSPI operated as an extension of Victoria’s Secret’s payments team, providing expertise and peace of mind in our payment arrangements. By leading negotiations on our behalf, CMSPI enabled Victoria’s Secret to significantly improve our debit routing incentives, driving high six-figure annual savings while maintaining our key payment strategy for stores.”