Spill the Tea on Payment

Spill the Tea on Payment is an independent payments media site and newsletter with a monthly Studio Report and a consulting arm. It is based in France and publishes in English for a global audience.

Editorial scope

The site states that it covers payments, ecommerce and retail, and the themes it lists are merchant payment strategy, infrastructure, ecommerce and retail. The people it addresses are payment operators and merchant teams: those who decide how checkout is built, which providers sit behind it and how the payment stack is run, rather than consumers.

Formats

Readers get analysis articles on the site and the Studio Report, a monthly report offered directly to subscribers. Behind the editorial sits a consulting service, so the author works inside the market they write about. The publication is one-way: it does not run a forum or community discussion.

Merchants and PSP strategists can use it as a regular outside read on how orchestration, aggregators and ecommerce checkout are changing, a counterweight to vendor blogs. The topic tags attached to the site are ecommerce, aggregators and orchestration.