Your donors gave. Your systems didn’t keep it all.

Nonprofits processing donations electronically lose between 0.5% and 2% of gross donation volume each year — not from donor disengagement, but from recurring gift lapses, authorization failures, merchant misclassification, and processor fees that go unexamined. For an organization processing $10M annually, that is $50,000–$200,000 in recoverable revenue. tessera quantifies that gap and provides a sequenced roadmap to close it — on a success-fee basis, so there is no cost unless we find savings.

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How it works

01 — The diagnostic

We examine eight areas of your payment infrastructure — recurring gift logic, authorization rates, merchant classification, fee structures, disputes, cross-border costs, payment rails, and channel mix. Each produces a quantified finding with a dollar value attached.

02 — The roadmap

Every finding becomes a prioritized action item. tessera delivers a sequenced implementation plan your team can act on directly — ranked by recovery potential, complexity, and time to impact. No retainer. No ongoing dependency. You own the roadmap.

03 — Quarterly measurement

tessera tracks what moves each quarter — authorization rate changes, fee reductions, recovered recurring revenue — and provides a plain-language update tying each result back to the original finding. Because the engagement is success-fee based, our incentives stay aligned with yours throughout.

Who this is for

tessera works with nonprofits that already have a payments operation — organizations processing $5M or more annually in donations, memberships, or program fees. You’re the right fit if you have a finance or operations leader who owns payment infrastructure but lacks a dedicated payments team, if you’ve never had your payment stack independently reviewed, or if you suspect your current setup is costing you more than it should.