You Can’t Fix What You Don’t Measure
Ever looked at your personal credit card statement and realized you’re still paying for that streaming service you forgot to cancel? That’s how most treasury and payment teams discover inefficiencies in their card processing environment. The true costs and realities of vendor relationships become obvious when someone decides to do a deep analysis (and has the benchmarking data available to analyze their position.)
Redbridge’s Card Fees Insight Report is designed to make it easier to understand those complex fees and hidden areas of opportunity. This report is delivered monthly and gives payments leaders clarity on their full card environment — with detailed cost breakdowns, actionable insights, and recommendations informed by peer benchmarks. It’s an always-on audit and advisory tool, built for teams who need insights they can actually use.
Why Visibility is Difficult
Card fees don’t always show up neatly, they can be clear and crisp, translucent, or sometimes impossible to view. They’re buried across acquirers, gateways, payment types, and internal business systems – often using different naming conventions, pricing structures, and formats. That’s why most payments and finance teams struggle to get a complete picture. Even if they know something’s off, they don’t have the time or tools to pull it together.
This is especially true for smaller treasury departments. Most are juggling different priorities, overseeing liquidity, risk, and cash, with little capacity to dive into payment cost analysis. What gets lost is the clarity needed to take action: What are we paying? What are the main drivers of those costs? Could we be overpaying? Are these fees market standard? What’s driving any fluctuations? Without centralized visibility, the cost of inaction compounds over time.
What the Report Delivers
The Card Fees Insight Report turns fragmented data into actionable intelligence. Every month, the Redbridge Payments Team delivers a clean, comprehensive report that highlights your volumes, costs, and performance. This report provides better insight into your current payments landscape, the fees, card usage, areas for improvement as well as the why behind them.
Redbridge Clients Receive:
- A normalized audit of their card fee data across providers
- Insights informed by provider and industry benchmarking
- A visual dashboard tailored for finance leaders
- Clear metrics like effective rates, category-level breakdowns, and month-over-month trends
- Commentary from Redbridge advisors that flags unusual activity or opportunities for savings or negotiation
The Ongoing Process: Audit. Measure. Enhance. Evolve.
The value of the Card Fees Insight Report isn’t just in the data — it’s in the rhythm it creates. Each month, Redbridge follows a consistent cycle to help your team move from uncertainty to insight to action.
- Audit – Your raw card fee data is ingested and normalized
- Measure – Reports are generated, highlighting costs, trends, and benchmarks
- Enhance – Redbridge flags areas of opportunity or concern, with context and recommendations
- Evolve – Over time, you’ll identify what’s working, what needs attention, and how to adapt
This continuous loop turns reporting into a strategic advantage. Whether you’re managing multiple business units, preparing for growth, or simply want to understand your fees with confidence, this process ensures you’re never in the dark again.
Start Seeing What You’re Paying For
Treasury and payments teams need clarity. When you can clearly see what you’re being charged (and why) better decisions follow. The Card Fees Insight Report equips you with the data and analysis to stay ahead of cost increases, justify spend, and make informed adjustments.
This report and our expertise becomes an extension of your team, helping you manage a critical part of your cost structure with clarity and confidence.
Ready to get started?
Contact Redbridge to request a sample report or learn more about how monthly reporting can strengthen your payments strategy.