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# You don't need new vendors.  You need a better audit.
- URL: https://www.financealliance.io/you-dont-need-new-vendors-you-need-a-better-audit/
- Published: 2026-04-14T17:09:32.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-02T16:21:09.000Z
- Description: How finance leaders are cutting overhead costs without the disruption of switching.
- Author: Finance Alliance
- Tags: Live session

**Your overhead costs are climbing, but the solution probably isn't what you think.**

Most finance leaders assume that reducing costs means disruption: new contracts, new vendors, new systems. But the biggest savings are often hiding in plain sight, buried inside your existing setup, in the fees, redundancies, and inefficiencies you haven't had a framework to find.

In this session, **Merchant Cost Consulting** will show you how to stop the leakage before it hits the P&L.

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## What you'll walk away with

- How to run a cost audit on your existing setup to uncover fees and inefficiencies you didn't know existed
- Why credit card processing costs are one of the most overlooked sources of margin erosion, and how to address them
- A phased, low-risk strategy to reduce overhead without switching vendors or disrupting operations
- How to negotiate better terms with your current providers from a position of knowledge
- The internal process changes that deliver the fastest savings, with the least risk

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## The problems we'll be solving

**"*We assumed switching vendors was our only option.*"** It rarely is. We'll show you why the biggest lever isn't who you work with, it's how you've structured the relationship.

**"*Our internal processes are eating into our margins.*"** Inefficiency doesn't always look like waste. Sometimes it looks like standard operating procedure. We'll show you where to look and what to do about it.

**"*We don't know where the costs are coming from.*"** Hidden fees and opaque pricing structures are by design, not by accident. We'll give you the framework to identify them and the language to push back.

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## Meet the speakers

[**Patrick MacLellan**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-maclellan-610b092b/) \- Patrick has grown with the payments industry since 2014, joining Merchant Cost Consulting in 2018 to help drive the company's rapid expansion. His client-focused approach has helped businesses across industries unlock savings they didn't know were available to them.

[**Matt Rej**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattrej/) \- Since joining Merchant Cost Consulting in 2017, Matt has built and led a high-performing sales team focused on educating businesses about hidden processing costs. He develops enterprise-level partnerships and helps companies of all sizes reduce their payment overhead through expertise and practical strategy.