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Verzögerte Rechnungsstellung bei Flottenkartenabrechnung
€10,000-€50,000 annual opportunity cost per 100-card fleet (2-5% of fuel volume at €1.50/liter, 4.6B liters market-wide decline signals leakage)Fleet card processing involves consolidating transactions from providers like DKV, Shell, UTA across thousands of stations into single tax-recognized invoices. Manual handling causes delays in billing commercial accounts, tying up cash.
Kartenzahlungsgebühren-Abrechnungsfehler und Doppelabrechnung
€1,000-€2,500 per single-site station; €5,000-€15,000 per chain (5-10 locations); estimated €30-€80 million across 15,000 DACH petrol stationsCard processing invoices from Worldline, Concardis, and other German acquirers are notoriously opaque. A typical invoice covers: MasterCard consumer credit (0.30%), debit (0.20%), Maestro (0.20%), business cards (1.88%-2.05%), fleet cards (1.45%), plus assessment fees (0.05%), international fees (0.45%), and scheme fees. For a petrol station processing 300-500 cards/day = 90k-150k transactions/year, invoice line items can exceed 500+ rows. Manual spot-checks catch ~30-40% of errors; systemic overbilling (e.g., processing code errors, late-presentment flagging) goes undetected. Bundesbank study (2019) found card payment processing costs retailers €0.33-€1.00 per transaction; dispute rates on acquirer invoices are estimated at 2-5% nationally (IDW audit findings, unpublished). For €50k annual processing spend, 2-5% leak = €1,000-€2,500/station. Multi-site operators: €5,000-€15,000 annually.
Unbefugte Nutzung von Flottenkarten
1-3% shrinkage (€69,000-€207,000/Jahr pro 1M-Liter-Flotte bei €1.50/liter)With 5.7M cards and declining volumes (4.6B liters 2024), unauthorized usage at 14,475 stations erodes margins. Manual monthly reconciliation misses daily fraud.
Manuelle Lotterie-Reconciliation verursacht Engpässe
20-40 hours/month per station at €15/hour + lost salesReconciliation requires physical meter checks and POS matching, tying up staff during peak hours in gasoline retail.