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, unravelling 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
Get in touch
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
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.
Airline Unlocks Savings and Reduces Payments Costs with CMSPI
Our experts continue to support the client with insights into upcoming payments industry changes – partnering closely with their internal team.
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.
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.”
“Following the project completion, I have to admit I was surprised at how much CMSPI were able to do, mid-contract, and we are really delighted with the results they achieved for us. We have some significant cost reductions without us having to make any major changes operationally or with supplier relationships.”
“Deciding to bring on CMSPI was one of the best decisions we have made for the category. The level of expertise and professionalism is world class. The team at CMSPI has done a great job in providing the independent market facts to allow us to develop our short and long term strategies with focus on reducing costs.”
“CMSPI’s input has been invaluable – we had highly competitive rates, but, they enabled us to drive cost savings we simply couldn’t access ourselves due to market visibility and their data capabilities. Any merchant looking to optimize their payments costs should work with CMSPI – they’re truly the payments experts.”