For fintechs - Subscription management

Your app's relevance starts with recurring payments

Tapix enables fintechs to turn raw transaction streams into structured recurring payment intelligence with merchant identification, billing pattern detection and compliance-ready data.

Side-by-side accounts: cryptic recurring charges versus Tapix-enriched ones with clear merchant names, billing dates and frequency

What happens when recurring payments stay invisible

Invisible charges push customers away: they cannot tell which payments renew, when, or how much. So they get  surprise charges and move to apps that show them clearly.

Failed payments cost real money: around 40% of declines come from forgotten recurring charges. Each one  triggers a card scheme fee, even when no money moves.

Low engagement leads to low ratings.  A narrow feature set and unreadable transactions drive poor App Store  reviews, making user acquisition harder.

Built on bank data. Tuned for user experience

From a flat balance to the full recurring picture

A flat monthly balance hides how much is really tied up in recurring payments. Tapix breaks it open, surfacing card subscriptions, pattern-based transactions, standing orders, and direct debits, so you and your customers see the true commitment behind every payment.

Tapix splitting a flat monthly balance into standing orders, pattern-based transactions and card subscriptions
Matched against 60bln+ enriched transactions
Sorted into 25 categories with 520+ tags
1 error per 6 000 000 enriched transactions
how tapix works

Turn Recurring Payments into Strategic Advantage

Tapix Recurring Payment Intelligence identifies and classifies every recurring transaction – subscriptions, direct debits, instalments, and standing orders – with pattern detection and continuously validated data.

Tapix detecting true recurring payments, including unlabelled annual and quarterly charges

Establish Transparent Recurring Control

Pattern recognition gives you a complete, accurate view of what's truly recurring, not just the obvious subscriptions. You see what each customer is really committed to.

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Spot recurrence with no label: annual insurance, quarterly bills, repeating transfers.
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Tell one-offs from commitments: Xbox game vs Game Pass, ticket vs coupon.
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One clean, structured view you and your customers can trust.
Tapix showing each renewal's date, amount and frequency to help prevent failed payments

Protect Revenue and Strengthen Primacy

Knowing each renewal's date, amount, frequency, and whether it's automatic lets you act before a payment fails. Fewer declines, steadier deposits, and customers who keep you first.

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Catch price increases before they turn into disputes.
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Flag shortfalls before the next billing date to cut declines.
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Keep balances aligned to renewals, steadying deposits.
Using recurring patterns to predict upcoming charges and flag subscriptions

Enable Predictive Financial Intelligence

Recurring patterns make what's coming predictable. Act early, whether that's a payment about to fail or a subscription worth flagging.

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Forecast renewals and warn customers before a payment fails.
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Nudge on unused or rising subscriptions to build trust.
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Feed recurring signals into segmentation, credit, and risk models.
Consistent enriched transaction data powering recurring payment features

Features are only as good as the data

Consistent, high-quality transaction data enables building a clear, scalable customer experiences across markets at production scale with:

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Feedback API
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Cross-market data consistency
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Auto-update mechanism and Invalidations
Business outcomes

What recurring payments clarity  unlocks?

Tapix helps elevate the transaction experience to the same level of excellence customers expect from Europe's digital leaders such as Revolut or bunq.

Difirentiate

Differ from competitors

Clear merchant insights enable your team to build payment experiences customers understand, with quality data competitors don't have.

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Boost mobile app engagement

Give users a reason to open the app every day with clear transactions and smart features built on consistent data.

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Build features customers adopt

Build high-value features on structured payment data. Clear merchant identity, accurate categorisation, and exact location for every payment.

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Higher app store ratings

Clarity builds emotional connection. Every clear transaction is a small moment of trust that compounds over time.

Built for Agile Fintech Teams

Tapix operates as a structured data enrichement layer delivered via secure API integration. Review the detection logic, data attributes, integration patterns, and security approach in the technical overview.

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REST API-based
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No core systems changes required
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Deplayable within weeks
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Works on top of existing transaction feeds
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Security certifications ISO 27001, ISO 27018, SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 20000-1, ISO 27701, ISO 9001
"As an entirely mobile bank, the pressures of innovating to match expectations is something that we thrive under. The mobile revolution has made a massive impact on society both in the way we communicate but also the rate at which we want our needs to be met. This is something that our partners at Dateio clearly agree on."

Ali Niknam

Founder & CEO at bunq

Recurring payment detection FAQ

Frequently asked questions about how Tapix detects subscriptions, direct debits and recurring payments from transaction data.

Can you identify subscriptions beyond card payments?

Yes. We identify recurring payments across all payment types — not just cards (Visa, Mastercard). That includes bank transfers (standing orders, direct debits) and pattern-based recurring charges with no auto-renewal, like highway tolls and transport coupons.

Do you use any specific MasterCard/Visa specific data fields to recognize subscriptions?

No. Network data fields can carry errors, so we don't rely on any single parameter. Instead, we combine multiple data approaches with human review and internal expertise to maximize accuracy.

Do you distinguish between card-on-file and actual recurring payments?

Yes. Card-on-file and recurring payments are two different ways of looking at a customer's payment commitments. You can read more abput concepts regarding subscription managment in our article here.

What information do you give us for each recurring payment?

For each recurring payment we return: frequency, next billing date, next-amount type (same, approximate or unknown), and an automatic-charging flag. It’s the perfect data set for building advanced subscription dashboards.

Why should I care about next payment date?

It turns a passive statement into a planning tool. Showing what's coming lets you warn on low balance before a renewal fails, cut surprise "friendly-fraud" disputes, and position the bank as the customer's planning partner.

Can you tell us the next payment's date and amount ahead of time?

Yes. Once we identify a transaction as recurring, we add the predicted next billing date and amount indication directly to it — so you can surface upcoming charges to customers before they happen.

How do you handle a merchant that has both one-off purchases and subscriptions?

We separate them by pattern, not by merchant. Take YouTube: one transaction might be a one-off movie rental, another a recurring YouTube Premium subscription. We assess each transaction on its own behaviour, so mixed-billing merchants are handled correctly.

Where does the subscription information actually come from?

From our own database. We don't depend on direct connections with merchants or on any single data-message field — the intelligence is built and maintained entirely on our side.

Do you only recognise big global brands, or also smaller local ones?

Both. Covering the top global brands (e.g., Netflix, Spotify) is the easy part; our focus is granular, market-by-market coverage. On a single market we typically see hundreds to thousands of merchants offering different billing plans, and we work to capture them all.

How much of a customer's history do you need before you can identify a subscription? And what about a brand-new customer where we've only seen one payment - say one Netflix charge?

Little to none for known merchants. Because coverage is cumulative and shared across clients, once a merchant is established in our database we recognise it for you — often from an early charge, without waiting for your own repeat pattern. Only a merchant that's brand-new to us needs a second sighting.

How often do you add new merchants and refresh your data?

Continuously. We run regular updates and data-quality controls on a daily basis, so new merchants and refreshed information flow through to all clients automatically.

Can your product actually pause, block or cancel a subscription?

No — that typically sits with your payment processor. We can share best practices from integrations we've already supported. Keep in mind that blocking a payment isn't the same as canceling a subscription. To actually cancel, customers need to go to the merchant's site. You can make this easy by redirecting them using the merchant URLs Tapix provides.

Does this help us meet the Visa subscription-management rules?

The Visa mandate has two parts: listing and blocking subscriptions. We fully cover the listing side and help you build blocking together with your payment processor. But the mandate is only the floor — there's far more opportunity to build a great product on top of the minimum Visa requirements.

See Tapix in Action

30-minute walkthrough with a live demo tailored to your business model and transaction data. See how Tapix turns raw payment records into real inputs using sample data that reflects your real-world scenarios.