Are Your Payments Driving Growth?: Get Your Free Growth Index Score
Embedded Payments Growth Index
Find out if your payments are working as hard as
your business.
The Fortis Growth Index benchmarks your payments performance against businesses in your industry — and shows you exactly where you’re leaving revenue on the table, and what it would take to recover it.
Why most businesses don't know how their payments are performing
Your payments are running — but are they working?
- Most businesses have never measured their payment acceptance rate — and have no idea how they compare to peers in their industry.
- Failed transactions, slow settlements, and excess processing fees quietly drain revenue every month — often without showing up anywhere in your reporting.
- Customers who hit friction at checkout don’t complain — they leave. Checkout abandonment rarely shows up as a named line item, but it compounds every month.
- Without a benchmark, there’s no way to know whether what you’re experiencing is normal for your industry — or a recoverable revenue problem.
How it works
What is the Fortis Growth Index?
The Fortis Growth Index is a free benchmarking assessment that scores your payments performance across four dimensions — and shows you how you compare to businesses in your industry, vertical, and size range.
It takes under 2 minutes. You’ll get a personalized score with specific, actionable findings — not a generic report. And if you want to go deeper, a Fortis payments expert is available to walk through your results.
The four dimensions we measure
Four dimensions that determine whether your payments are a growth asset or a drag on your business
Each driver represents a dimension where embedded payments programs either compound growth—or quietly leak it.
Revenue Transparency
From invisible to fully visible
You can't fix what you can't see. This dimension measures whether you have real visibility into how your payments are performing — acceptance rates, failed transactions, settlement timing, and true processing costs.
What good looks like
You know your payment acceptance rate, your average processing cost, and which transaction types are underperforming — and you review them regularly.
Customer Adoption Depth
From limited options to full payment flexibility
Your customers want to pay in more ways than ever — card, ACH, digital wallets, Buy Now Pay Later. This dimension measures whether your payment options match what your customers actually want to use.
What good looks like
Your customers can pay the way they prefer — and you're not losing sales because a payment method isn't available.
Integration Flexibility
From friction to a seamless experience
Every extra step in the checkout process costs you conversions. This dimension measures how much friction exists in your current payment flow — and where customers are dropping off before they complete a transaction.
What good looks like
Checkout is fast, clear, and works consistently across channels — and your abandonment rate reflects it.
Strategic Alignment
From cost center to revenue driver
Payments shouldn't just be an operational function — they should actively contribute to your revenue. This dimension measures whether your payments setup is optimized to capture more revenue, reduce costs, and support business growth.
What good looks like
Your payments setup is actively reducing processing costs, capturing revenue you'd otherwise miss, and giving you data you use to make decisions.
Get Your Growth Index Score
How does your payments program stack up?
The gaps highlight your biggest opportunities to improve payments performance and unlock additional revenue.
Revenue Transparency
Customer Adoption Depth
Integration Flexibility
Strategic Alignment
Where does your business stand?
Four stages of payments performance — which one describes you?
Every business lands somewhere on this scale. Your Growth Index score tells you exactly where you are — and what it would take to move up.
Stage 1
Early-Stage
Payments are live, but you have little visibility into how they’re performing. You’re likely paying more than you should and missing revenue you don’t know about.
Stage 2
Enabled
You have basic visibility and your payments are working — but you’re still reacting to problems rather than optimizing proactively. There’s meaningful revenue you’re not capturing yet.
Stage 3
Managed
You actively track payments performance, your checkout experience is solid, and you review metrics regularly. You’re ahead of most businesses — and there are still gains available at the margins.
Stage 4
Strategic
Your payments setup is a competitive advantage. You’re capturing more revenue, paying less to process it, and using payments data to make smarter business decisions.
The Partner Behind the Index
Why Fortis
We exist to make payments work harder for the businesses that run on them — not just process transactions and stay out of the way.
Payments that run on your terms
Fortis processes payments across every channel — card present, card not present, ACH, digital wallets, and more — so your customers can always pay the way they want.
Clear visibility into what's happening
Fortis gives you reporting tools that show you exactly how your payments are performing — acceptance rates, processing costs, settlement timing — so nothing is a black box.
A partner who drives measurable growth
Unlike processors who just run transactions, Fortis takes an active role in your payments performance. We identify where you’re losing revenue, surface opportunities to reduce costs, and work alongside you to act on them — not just answer support tickets.
turn insight into impact
Ready to see where your payments stand?
You’ve seen your Growth Index score – now let’s dive deeper.
Share a few details and a payments expert will walk you through your results
and show you exactly where to improve.
No commitment. Just clarity on your payments performance and how to do better.
See Your Benchmark
See how your score compares to businesses like yours.
Understand Your Results
We’ll break down what’s driving your score and where you can improve.
Unlock Your Opportunity
Get expert recommendations to increase revenue, reduce costs and improve efficiency.
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Fortis is a Payment Facilitator and registered ISO for KeyBank National Association (Cleveland, OH) and Fifth Third Bank, N.A. (Cincinnati, OH); Fortis is a registered ISO for Citizens Bank, N.A. (Providence, RI); Compass Bank (an Alabama State-chartered bank); Woodforest National Bank (The Woodlands, TX); U.S. Bancorp (Minneapolis, MN); PNC Bank, N.A. (Pittsburgh, PA); Pathward, N.A. (Sioux Falls, SD); and Elavon, Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia), including the Canadian branch of U.S. Bank National Association.
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