Welcome to PreAuth Academy!

What PreAuth Academy is

PreAuth Academy offers trainings on online payments - with the goal of getting a fundamental understanding of what is relevant to know. The trainings cover the players involved, payments processes, relevant payment methods and more.

Formats

PreAuth Academy runs live trainings – either on premise, at a conference room or online. We will determine the focus of each training session beforehand by taking into consideration your existing knowledge and company setting.

The training sessions will have a duration between 2 and 5 hours depending on the topics/focus agreed.

The training language is either English or German.

Training topics

The role of banks, Schemes (Visa, Mastecard…), Issuers, Acquirers, PSPs, Merchants, Marketplaces, etc.

What does “alternative” actually mean? About Payment methods, their uses and their relevance.

How card payments work from end-to-end. Entities involved, costs (who earns what and why), happy path and what can go wrong. Authentication vs Authorisation (starring 3DS), tokenisation and basic fraud management.

PSD2, contractual relationships between players, Regulation around Marketplaces.

A little history, the regulatory background (PSD2), the authentication process, exemptions/applicability and dealing with unsuccessful authentications.

How to protect against losses from fraud, effective dispute processes, costs involved and balancing conversion vs. fraud prevention.

Understanding your payments processes better by understanding your payments data. Which metrics exist and why they are relevant?

For decison makers

Achieving a better understanding of who is involved, how things are connected and where the costs and payments come from.

For Product Managers

Enabling you to make better product decisions, juggling processes, external partners, conversion and costs.

For new employees

For companies or departments who work primarily on payments. Your new employees will get a fundamental understanding on how payments work and where the payment industry is at.
Their poductivity will be boosted.

For you!

You are not in one of the person groups, but are interested in learning on payments topics? Go no further, you are at the right place!

„Moritz is Mr. Payments. With a vast and deep understanding, Moritz has what it needs to untangle the complex world of payments.“

Miriam Wohlfarth
CEO Banxware
and Founder Ratepay

„We learned a bit or two when Moritz worked with us. Decision making was easier, as he looked at all aspects of payments processing.“

Geert Matthys
Director Marketplace Payment Solutions at Deutsche Bank

„If you need to understand the payments domain fast, I whole-heartedly recommend getting training sessions for your team by Moritz. He understands the engineering perspective and he makes it fun.“

Duana Stanley
ML Engineer at Cash App

Interested?