Payment Economics

Payment Economics had not yet been defined as a discipline. Finance teams measured AP efficiency: cost per invoice, processing time, exception rates. No one was measuring the financial return from payment operations.

This case study documents how the Payment Economics discipline was built from the ground up, creating the infrastructure that now serves practitioners, associations, and technology companies.

What Was Built

• The Payment Yield Formula: PY = CR x SA, the core framework that defines how to measure payment performance
• The Payment Economics Journal: Weekly publication building the discipline in public, 980+ subscribers including decision-makers at Amazon, DuPont, BP, and ING
• The Book: Payment Economics: The Foundation. 27 chapters. Published on Amazon. Vendor-neutral.
• PEF Certification: $497/seat professional credential validating practitioner expertise
• The Advisory Practice: $10K+ engagements producing PEI Scores and feeding the benchmark database
• The Website: payment-economics.org. 44 pages, 16 journal issues, 9 library resources, 7 downloadable tools

Why This Matters for Your Category

Payment Economics demonstrates the methodology. The same infrastructure (journal, frameworks, certification, community) can be built for any emerging practice area where practitioners need language, measurement systems, and professional development pathways.

Your category could be trade credit strategy, third-party risk management, AI operations, data security, or something the market has not named yet. The methodology is the same.