For buyers — AP · Procurement · Treasury

Realize the rebate your program promised.

Turn promised rebate and working capital into realized net income and a shorter cash conversion cycle — by converting the strategic suppliers your bank left on the table, branded as you, on any bank.

The decision sits with the CFO and Treasurer.  A paid diagnostic sizes the realized opportunity before you commit.

Built for the office of the CFO — Treasury, AP & Procurement.

Realized, not forecast Issuer-agnostic Branded as you Inside your firewall

The bank is the foil, not the hero

Your bank ran a couple of waves, caught the low-hanging fruit, and spit out the rest.

You got roughly 8% conversion and a quarterly Excel report. The card program was sold on your whole supplier file — then the bank enabled the few that were easy, booked the win, and handed back the long tail. The rebate and working capital you were promised are still sitting in checks and ACH.

What they did

A couple of waves on the obvious suppliers, then declared success.

What you got

Roughly 8% conversion and a quarterly spreadsheet — positioning, not a guarantee.

What's left

The strategic suppliers no one worked — where the real rebate still lives.

What you get, by role

One program, four wins around the table.

The decision sits with the CFO and Treasurer — but everyone in the office of finance gets something they can measure. Here's what each role takes home.

CFO

Realized rebate to net income.

Rebate that lands in net income and working capital you actually free — measured after the fact, not forecast in a sales deck.

  • Benefit you can book this period, not a number you project.
  • Working capital freed across the whole file, not a slice.
Treasurer

Extend DPO. Shorten CCC.

Push Days Payable Outstanding out, shorten the cash conversion cycle, and free working capital — on any bank, with no switching cost.

  • DPO extended without straining strategic supplier relationships.
  • Issuer-agnostic — keep the bank and the rails you already run.
AP Leader

Hit the rebate and extend DPO.

You don't have to choose between earning the rebate and stretching terms. We work the whole supplier file so you get both.

  • Both objectives, not a trade-off between them.
  • The long tail worked supplier by supplier, not skipped.
Procurement

Hard savings toward your target.

Rebate is hard savings against your percent-of-spend savings target — and outreach branded as you protects the strategic relationships you own.

  • Counts as realized savings, not a soft estimate.
  • Branded as you, so supplier relationships stay yours.

Why it works

We work the whole file — not the bank's easy ~15%.

The bank's economics stop at the suppliers that onboard themselves. Ours don't. We run high-touch outreach across the strategic long tail, branded as you, issuer-agnostic, and inside your firewall.

The bank's program

The easy ~15%.

  • A few waves on suppliers that enable themselves.
  • Generic, bank-branded outreach you don't control.
  • Tied to the issuer that sold the program.
  • Long tail handed back untouched.
Activate, run by you

The whole supplier file.

  • High-touch outreach across the strategic long tail.
  • Branded as you — relationships stay yours.
  • Issuer-agnostic — runs on any bank.
  • Inside your firewall — your data never leaves.

The numbers behind it

The economics already favor the card. The reach is what's missing.

On cost alone, card wins outright. The reason the rebate goes unrealized isn't price — it's that most of your suppliers were never contacted.

82 / 12 bps

Net commercial-card cost versus 192–316 bps for check and ACH. On cost alone, card wins outright.

Source: Visa Commercial Solutions © 2023
59%

Of suppliers were never contacted in an anonymized Fortune 500 chemical manufacturer's enablement funnel — the strategic file the bank skipped.

Source: anonymized F500 funnel analysis

Reach — not fees — is the barrier. The bank works the easy slice; the realized rebate lives in the suppliers no one called.

Whole-file programFull reach
Bank's easy slice~15%
Illustrative supplier-file coverage

Bring the numbers to your CFO

Make the case before the meeting.

Two ways to size the opportunity and frame the decision for your finance team — before you ever book a call.

Framework

The Case for Card

The cost-and-working-capital argument, laid out the way Treasury and the CFO evaluate it — basis points, DPO, and the cash conversion cycle, side by side with check and ACH.

Read the framework

Tool

Rebate calculator

Estimate the rebate and working capital your program left on the table across the suppliers the bank never worked — so you walk into the diagnostic with a number.

Open the calculator

Go realize the rebate your program already promised.

Start with a paid diagnostic. We'll size the realized rebate and working capital across your full supplier file — then run the program with you, branded as you, on the bank you already have.