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 Economics Journal: A LinkedIn newsletter documenting the discipline's frameworks, metrics, and ongoing development
• The Payment Yield Formula: PY = CR x SA, the core framework that defines how to measure payment performance
• PEF Certification: A professional credential validating practitioner expertise in Payment Economics
• Payment Economics Network: A community of practitioners applying Payment Economics in their organizations
• Resource Library: Frameworks, guides, calculators, and tools for practitioners

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 hasn't named yet. The methodology is the same.