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Merchant Card Fee Audit

Three statements tell us
if your processor is overcharging you

What to send

Your last 3 monthly processing statements — the full statements, not the summary page.

Card processing statements are the least readable documents in business. Downgraded transactions, padded interchange categories, duplicate assessments, rate creep after the first year, and fees for services never ordered hide inside them — behind terminology designed not to be questioned.

Email your three statements

Where the money hides

Where the rate creeps

Downgrades never appear as an error. They appear as a slightly higher effective rate, month after month.

Processing statement — fee detail Illustrative example
One month, card-present volume $486,200 across 9,240 transactions. Effective rate 2.40%.
01 Interchange, passed through Card brand schedules, as settled $8,472.30
02 Card brand assessments 0.14% of volume $680.68
03 Downgrade surcharge $61,400 settled late, +0.95% $583.30
These were qualified card-present sales, downgraded because settlement fell outside the window. Settled on time, the same volume carries no downgrade at all — $583.30 in a single month.
04 Processor markup 0.25% of volume + $0.08 × 9,240 items $1,954.70
Total fees billed $11,690.98
Illustrative example built from the error patterns we look for. Not a client document, not a client result.
What you get

A plain-English breakdown of what you actually pay per transaction, recovery of identifiable overcharges, and the effective-rate number you can hold your processor to.

What it costs

50% of recovered amounts. No recovery, no fee.

What to send

Your last 3 monthly processing statements — the full statements, not the summary page.

How long it takes

Findings in about ten days.

Send three statements

Your last 3 monthly processing statements — the full statements, not the summary page. Findings come back in about ten days. If there is nothing to recover, we say so in writing and you owe nothing.

Email your statements

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