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How much is your payment stack actually costing you?

Adjust the sliders. The savings counter reflects real recoverable revenue — failed charges retrieved, interchange optimized, compliance automated.

Estimated Annual Savings with Ledger

$0

Based on 78% recovery rate, optimized routing, and automated compliance

No credit card. No commitment. Three fields.

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50,000 txns/mo
1,000500,000
$48
$5$500
3.2%
0.5%15.0%

Savings Breakdown

Failed charge recovery$718,848
Interchange optimization$1,320
Compliance automation$57,600
Total Annual$777,768
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Problem 01 — Failed Charges

Your retry logic is a duct-taped cron job.

A 3.2% failure rate sounds manageable until you do the math. At 50,000 transactions a month, that's 1,600 customers who didn't pay — and a cron job that retries them all at 3am Tuesday regardless of card network, issuer behavior, or account balance.

78% of failed charges are recoverable with intelligent timing, network-aware retries, and issuer-specific backoff curves.

Solution — Smart Retry Engine
ledger-sdk.ts
1import { Ledger } from '@ledger/sdk'
2
3const charge = await Ledger.charge({
4 amount: 4800,
5 currency: 'USD',
6 retry: {
7 strategy: 'intelligent',
8 maxAttempts: 4,
9 issuerBackoff: true
10 }
11});
12
13// charge.recoveryRate → 0.78
Problem 02 — Multi-Currency Routing

You're paying 3.5% FX spread on every cross-border payout.

When a payment crosses a currency boundary, your processor picks a route. Not the cheapest route, not the fastest route — the route that maximizes their margin. You're funding their treasury desk.

Ledger evaluates 14 routing paths in real time and selects based on spread, settlement speed, and counterparty risk — before the transaction is authorized.

Solution — Real-Time FX Routing
FX Route Optimizer — LiveLive · 2s ago
USD → EUR (€42.10)
Selected0.82% spread
USD → EUR via Citi
3.50% spread
USD → EUR via JPMorgan
2.10% spread
Settlement speed
InstantT+0 (real-time)
Counterparty rating
AAA · Tier 1
Annual FX savings
$127,400
Problem 03 — Compliance Orchestration

Your compliance stack is four vendors and a Notion doc.

KYC from one vendor. AML screening from another. PSD2 SCA from a third. The Notion doc explains what happens when they disagree. It's been wrong twice. The second time cost you $240,000.

Compliance rules in 40 countries, unified under one decisioning layer. A single API call returns a pass/fail with audit trail attached.

Solution — Unified Compliance Engine
ledger-sdk.ts
1const result = await Ledger.compliance({
2 userId: 'usr_8kX2mP',
3 amount: 24000,
4 jurisdiction: 'EU',
5 checks: ['kyc', 'aml', 'psd2']
6});
7
8// result → {
9// status: 'approved'
10// auditId: 'aud_9fZ4kQ'
11// latency: 180ms
12// }
Problem 04 — Reconciliation

Finance closes the books four days late every month.

Every payout to a seller generates a settlement file. Every settlement file has a different schema. Someone on your finance team spends Tuesday through Friday parsing CSVs and emailing processor support about a $0.03 discrepancy.

Real-time ledger entries, normalized across all processors. One schema. Zero Tuesday emails.

Solution — Real-Time Reconciliation
Reconciliation Dashboard — Feb 2026Live · 2s ago
Transactions processed
48,291
Matched automatically
Perfect48,291 (100%)
Discrepancies flagged
0
Processor schemas unified
7 sources
Finance close date
−4 daysFeb 1 · Day 1
Pending human review
$0.00

By the numbers

Infrastructure that ships receipts, not excuses.

$2.4B
Routed annually
Across 40 countries
99.997%
API uptime
12-month trailing
78%
Failed charge recovery
vs. 22% industry avg
180ms
Median API latency
p99 under 400ms
40
Countries supported
Live routing
$0
Setup cost
10,000 free transactions

From the field

The people who wired it in.

"We were losing $340,000 a year to failed subscription charges. Our engineering team spent two weeks building a retry system that recovered maybe 20% of them. Ledger recovered 81% in the first billing cycle. We shut down the cron job."

Priya Nambiar

CTO · Archway Financial

Series B · $62M raised

$340K/yr recovered
"Cross-border payouts to our marketplace sellers used to take a dedicated ops person four days a month. We had a spreadsheet, three banking portals, and a prayer. Now it's a single API call and reconciliation closes on day one."

Marcus Oduya

Head of Finance Operations · Stackflow Commerce

Series C · 14,000 sellers

4 days → same day close
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