How it works Expertise Ecosystem About
PaymentsIQ — Payments Consulting

Payments, run
like a discipline.

A boutique payments intelligence firm built for businesses that run on recurring revenue. Strategy, execution, retention in both its forms, and chargebacks — run as one discipline, measured against a single scoreboard.

Process view — Retention · Recovery Illustration
Subscription payment
CARD ••••  ·  RECURRING
DECLINED
STEP 01
Decline received
The payment fails. The reason code is captured, not guessed at.
STEP 02
Signals read
Decline code, issuer behavior, and account history are reviewed together.
STEP 03
Fix selected
Retry timing, card update, or a different route — the fix that fits the cause.
STEP 04
Recovered
The payment goes through, and the outcome feeds the next diagnosis.
How to read this:A schematic of the diagnostic process — every engagement applies it to your real payment data.
Interchange line item
CARD ••••  ·  MONTHLY STATEMENT
AUDITED
STEP 01
Line item audited
One line on the statement, read against the rate it should have carried.
STEP 02
Gap found
Qualification, downgrade, and routing checked for where the extra cost crept in.
STEP 03
Re-routed
Volume pointed to the lowest legitimate cost path for that transaction type.
STEP 04
Cost reduced
The lower cost shows on the next statement — and is held there, cycle after cycle.
How to read this:A schematic of the audit process — every engagement applies it to your real statement data.
Dispute opened
CARD ••••  ·  CHARGEBACK
OPENED
STEP 01
Dispute opened
A chargeback lands with a reason code and a response deadline.
STEP 02
Evidence assembled
Order, delivery, and customer communication records pulled into one file.
STEP 03
Response filed
Representment built on the evidence and submitted inside the window.
STEP 04
Answered
The outcome feeds prevention, so the same dispute stops recurring.
How to read this:A schematic of the dispute process — every engagement applies it to your real dispute data.
Authorization rateON TRACK
Recovery rateIMPROVING
Voluntary churnWATCH
Involuntary churnON TRACK
Chargeback ratioON TRACK
Effective rateIMPROVING
Dispute win rateBASELINED
The framework:One scoreboard for the whole operation — baselined per engagement, reported against your own baseline.
How it works

Every payment operation fails differently.
Know why — then fix it.

01

Measure

The right metrics, baselined from day one.

02

Diagnose

Where revenue and margin are leaking, and why.

03

Fix

Root causes addressed — process, routing, vendors, configuration.

04

Run

Kept moving, reviewed against the scoreboard.

The scoreboard — metrics framework
Authorization rate
Recovery rate
Voluntary churn
Involuntary churn
Chargeback ratio
Effective rate
Dispute win rate
The framework:Baselined per engagement. Reported against your own baseline.
Expertise

Four disciplines.
One operator.

Discipline 01

Payments Strategy

Which processors, which payment methods, which markets — and in what order. We set the roadmap from the economics of your operation, not vendor pitches.

Payment Health CheckA fixed-scope diagnostic: your metrics baselined, the leaks named, the fixes sequenced.
Discipline 02

Execution & Implementation

Vendor selection, rate negotiation, integration oversight. We sit on your side of the table and stay until it's live and performing.

Interchange & Routing OptimizationCard costs and routing rebuilt line by line, so more volume lands at the lowest legitimate cost.
Discipline 03

Retention — Voluntary & Involuntary

Customers leave two ways: they decide to, or their payment quietly fails. We work both — save plays and cancellation flows on one side, decline recovery on the other.

Failed Payment RecoveryEvery decline read, routed, and worked until it recovers or proves it can't.
Discipline 04

Chargebacks & Fraud Prevention

Disputes answered with evidence, alerts wired in before they become chargebacks, fraud controls tuned so protection doesn't cost good volume.

Chargeback & Fraud PreventionPrevention, alerts, and representment run as one program, measured on ratio and win rate.
Ecosystem

The companies we work with.
And recommend when they fit.

Proof

In their words.
Nothing paraphrased.

“
Jerry & his team at PaymentsiQ are the best recurring payment leaders I have known in my time doing this.
Aaron Stibel
Chief Business Officer, LegalZoom
Previously Operating Partner, Bryant/Stibel
“
Give Jerry & team a goal, and they will get it done and more.
Peter Oey
Chief Financial Officer, Grab
Client results — published with client permission, verified numbers only.
The Operator

Jerry Krayzman.
Fifteen years inside the machine.

Portrait of Jerry Krayzman, founder of PaymentsIQ

Jerry Krayzman

Founder, PaymentsIQ

Jerry's career in payments began at CreditReport.com, acquired by Experian. From 2010 to 2022 at LegalZoom, he ran billing operations, payment solutions, and fraud prevention for one of the largest subscription businesses in the country. He then led billing and payments product at SurveyMonkey as Director of Product Management, Billing & Payments.

Today, through PaymentsIQ, he brings that operating experience to subscription and recurring-revenue businesses directly — establishing the metrics, finding the issues, and moving the numbers that matter.

CPFPP CTP 15+ YEARS IN PAYMENTS
Speaking
Payments Leaders' Summit (incl. Amsterdam 2024) · Money20/20 · Merchant Risk Council · MAG · Subscription Show

Jerry also founded Future of Payments Leaders, the private, vetted community for payments executives.

FAQ

Got questions?
Straight answers.

A structured diagnostic of your payment operation — authorization, recovery, both forms of churn, chargebacks, and cost — baselined against your own data. It ends with a prioritized list of what to fix, in what order, and why.

In four phases: Measure, Diagnose, Fix, Run. Metrics are baselined first, root causes found second, fixes implemented third — then performance is reviewed against the scoreboard on an ongoing basis.

No. PaymentsIQ is advice, vendor selection, negotiation, and implementation support. We're paid by clients, which keeps every recommendation honest — vendors get recommended when they fit your operation, not for any other reason.

Subscription and recurring-revenue businesses — companies where payments repeat, declines compound silently, and retention is revenue. If your billing runs on a cycle, this work applies to you.

PaymentsIQ

Put your payments
on a scoreboard.

Baselined from day one, measured against your own numbers — that's when a payment operation starts improving on purpose.

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