Independent payments finance advisory

Find the money hiding in every transaction.

Interchange is opaque on purpose. Residuals are easy to accept and hard to verify. Pricing gets decided on instinct. We bring the rigor of a corporate finance team to the businesses moving the money, from independent agents to the investors buying their portfolios.

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Years across payments and corporate finance
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Buyer types served, from agent to investor
MBA
Finance, New York Institute of Technology
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Residuals to processor data feeds, end to end
Services

Where the margin lives, and how we find it.

Engagements are scoped to your stack and your numbers. Most start with a focused diagnostic and turn into ongoing optimization once the first wins land.

Residual & commission integrity

Independent audits of residual and agent commission calculations down to the interchange line, so you pay and get paid exactly what the data supports.

  • Residual reconciliation and leakage recovery
  • Agent and partner commission audits
  • Splits, buy rates, and bonus logic validation

Interchange & effective rate

Category-level review of how transactions clear, where downgrades happen, and how to qualify more volume at the right rate.

  • Effective rate and fee-stack analysis
  • Interchange qualification and downgrade fixes
  • Level 2 and Level 3 data opportunities

FP&A, forecasting & variance

The forecasting and variance discipline of a corporate finance team, sized for your company, so leadership can steer instead of guess.

  • Quarterly forecasts and rolling reforecasts
  • Actual to estimate variance analysis
  • Operating budgets and expense control

Pricing & deal strategy

Pricing models and deal reviews that let sales move fast without giving away margin. We quantify the risk and the upside before the ink dries.

  • Pricing models and rate-card design
  • Deal P&L and proposal risk reviews
  • Win-loss economics and margin guardrails

M&A & portfolio diligence

Buy-side and sell-side support for payments portfolios: revenue quality, residual durability, and the assumptions hiding under the model.

  • Residual and revenue quality of earnings
  • Portfolio P&L and attrition modeling
  • Synergy and integration finance review

Processor data & finance ops

The connective work between processor data feeds, accounting, and the P&L: cleaner reporting, a tighter close, and models the whole business can trust.

  • Processor and acquirer data feed reconciliation
  • Reporting and ad-hoc analysis on demand
  • Process, controls, and accounting alignment

Finance automation & tooling

Turn the manual month-end grind into systems that run themselves: automated reconciliation, residual and commission math, and live dashboards in place of fragile spreadsheets.

  • Residual, commission, and fee automation
  • Processor data feed pipelines and dashboards
  • Reporting, alerts, and close acceleration

Cost & process optimization

A standing review of where money and time drain out of the operation: processing costs, vendor fees, manual handoffs, and the workflows that quietly tax every close.

  • Processing cost and vendor fee reduction
  • Workflow and operational efficiency
  • Ongoing optimization, not a one-time audit

Fractional finance leadership

Senior finance leadership on call, without the full-time hire. We step in as your embedded finance lead, owning the numbers, the forecast, and the hard calls when you need them.

  • Embedded finance lead for ISOs and processors
  • Board, investor, and lender reporting
  • Strategic finance support through growth and raises
Follow the money

Anatomy of a single transaction.

Every authorization moves through four hands in under two seconds. On the acquiring side, margin leaks at each handoff. We know exactly where to look.

MERCHANT Effective rate PROCESSOR Residuals NETWORK Interchange ISSUER Authorization

Gold marks where margin leaks, and where we look first.

Who we help

One discipline, four very different scorecards.

Residuals, interchange, forecasting, and diligence are the same craft seen from four vantage points. We have lived all of them.

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ISOs, MSPs & agents

Protect residual income, audit commissions, and understand true profitability per merchant and per partner.

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Processors & ISVs

Sharpen forecasting, pricing, and unit economics as you scale payments inside your platform.

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Mid-market merchants

Audit your effective rate, fix interchange downgrades, and stop overpaying on every batch you settle.

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PE & M&A in payments

Diligence revenue and residual quality, stress-test the model, and price the risk you are actually buying.

Approach

Diagnose, quantify, then fix what pays back fastest.

No boilerplate decks. Every engagement starts in your data and ends with changes you can measure on the next statement.

Diagnose

We get into the residual files, processor feeds, statements, and forecasts and map where money is leaking or being left on the table.

Quantify

Every finding comes with a dollar figure and a confidence level, so you can prioritize by payback, not by opinion.

Optimize

We implement the fixes, build the recurring controls, and put reporting in place so the gains hold and compound.

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Avani PatelFounder · Payments Finance
About

Two decades on the inside. Now we work for you.

Our founder, Avani Patel, spent most of her career inside payments companies: building the forecasts leadership steered by, auditing the residuals agents lived on, reconciling processor data feeds, and pressure-testing the pricing behind big deals. She grew from financial analyst into a finance leader who owned optimization across residuals, accounting, and the data that ties them together.

That insider view is exactly what most ISOs, merchants, and even investors lack. We bring the rigor of a corporate finance department to organizations that do not have one, and a sharper read to the ones that do. Engagements are independent, confidential, and senior from day one. You work directly with us.

Finance Leadership Residuals Interchange Accounting Processor Data Feeds Commissions Forecasting Automation Optimization MBA, Finance

Where is your portfolio leaking money?

Tell us about your business and your numbers. We will tell you, honestly, whether there is meaningful upside worth chasing and how we would find it.