Payments strategies customized to your goals.
Data driven guidance with a human touch and a “roll up sleeves” collaborative approach.
Payments can be complicated.
We have the Services to help you where you are right now and tomorrow.
Payments Advisory Services
Payments is ever-evolving, and we work with you to create a payments strategy that aligns with your business goals and turns payments into a strategic advantage vs. a cost center.
RFP/RFI Management
Let us create and manage an RFP or RFI that incorporates the needs of every part of your company, from technical to operations to price. We create manage a custom process for your organization.
Pricing Review & Negotiation
From payment service providers to third party services, we review all facets of your payments integrations to ensure you are being charged fair prices and will negotiate on your behalf.
Global Expansion Strategy
When entering into a new market, there are several key considerations for optimizing costs, offering relevant payment methods, understanding the fraud landscape and more. We will work with you to create a plan that ensures a smooth landing.
Payments Operations
Whether you’re looking to minimize downgrades, prevent penalties or adjust your fraud management processes, we take a holistic approach to reviewing your payments operational flows to find ways to save time and money and improve your customer’s experience.
Migrations
Once a new provider has been identified, we provide product and project management resources to manage migrating from one partner to another while minimizing impacts to your teams and, even more importantly, your customers.
Experience
Take the fast track and avoid pitfalls
Strategic
Long-game view with an eye to short-term wins
Ready to Work
Get a plan and people ready to implement it
About Us
Why Choose Us?
Data-driven with a human touch
We pride ourselves on being data-driven while maintaining a human touch in everything we do. Data is at the heart of informed decision-making, allowing us to analyze trends, spot opportunities, and optimize strategies.
We believe fostering meaningful personal and professional relationships can create opportunities, collaboration, and support that contribute to collective business success. We believe in building relationships that yield returns over time.
We invest time and effort into developing well-defined strategies that align with your long-term business goals and are committed to delivering value to our customers, stakeholders, and partners through purposeful and well-executed strategies.
Meet Sarah
Sarah Stapp
Founder, Stapp Consulting, LLC
Sarah brings more than 15 years of global strategic and tactical payments expertise to merchants and payments-focused companies alike.
As a key member of the global expansion team, she helped launch Braintree across Europe, APAC and North America. And as a leader of the Global Payment Partners team, Sarah also managed acquiring and card brand relationships including taking the lead on organizational initiatives across the Braintree and Paypal organization— including PSD2, Global Acquiring Program, BIN Sponsorships, high risk vertical enablement including crypto and gambling, and 3DS 2.0.
She also has extensive experience managing cross functional initiatives for enterprise merchant needs such as RFP responses, interchange optimization efforts, geo-expansion initiatives, and network program qualification and enrollment projects.
Sarah lives in Chicagoland with her husband, two children, two horses and one dog. She enjoys gardening, volunteering at a local horse rescue where she also serves on the board as treasurer, trying new wines and recipes, and spending time with family and friends.