IT Billing Fraud Detection - Audit, evidence, recovery plan

Stop paying for phantom IT charges and vendor games.

We review IT invoices, subscriptions, and contracts to catch duplicate billing, stale licenses, inflated support fees, and vendor games that quietly grow IT spend over time (bundled padding, auto-renew traps, surprise uplifts, and “mystery” add-ons). You get a findings report with evidence and a practical recovery plan you can hand to vendors or finance.

Quick clarification
Billing Fraud Detection is a look back audit: we prove what happened, quantify it, and give you a recovery plan. If you want help before you approve renewals and quotes, use IT Spend Advisory (look forward).
  • * Vendor games: quiet price uplifts, bundle padding, and auto-renew traps.
  • * Duplicate and overlapping services across vendors.
  • * Unused seats, legacy subscriptions, and misaligned tiers.
  • * Contract terms vs what you are actually being billed.
Request a Billing Audit

Typical turnaround: 5 to 10 business days once invoices and contracts are received. Fixed scope. Clear evidence. No jargon.

Billing Audit
High impact • Fixed fee
Audit fee
From $1,495

Fixed price based on scope. Invoice/contract review, findings, recovery plan.

Optional ongoing monitoring
$395/month

Monthly invoice validation and subscription drift monitoring.

  • * Vendor game detection (uplifts, bundle padding, auto-renews).
  • * Duplicate billing detection with line item evidence.
  • * License and seat optimization recommendations.
  • * Renewal and term validation (dates, notice, rate changes).
  • * Findings list with priority and next actions.

All-inclusive fixed fee — no percentages of savings, no hidden costs. You keep 100% of any recoveries.

Best for organizations with multiple vendors, subscriptions, and renewals

Professional services and consulting Manufacturing and industrial Multi-location operations Nonprofits and associations

What is included in the billing fraud detection audit.

This is a structured review designed to produce proof, not opinions. You receive clear findings, quick wins, and a clean list of actions to recover money or prevent future overbilling.

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Invoice intake and normalization (vendors, services, dates, totals).

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Subscription and license inventory (seats, tiers, renewal dates).

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Vendor games review (bundle padding, quiet uplifts, add-ons, and auto-renew traps).

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Duplicate billing detection (same service billed twice, overlapping tools).

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Contract and term validation (renewals, notice windows, rate changes).

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Usage mismatch checks (unused seats, inactive services, stale add-ons).

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Support and maintenance fee sanity checks (scope vs billed).

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Findings report with evidence screenshots and invoice references.

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Prioritized recovery plan with scripts for vendor disputes and cancellations.

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Optional management summary for owners and boards (plain English).

What we do not do in this service:

We do not contact vendors without your approval. We do not sign agreements on your behalf. If you want us to handle vendor discussions or renegotiation, that is a separate scoped follow-up.

Vendor games we see most often.

These are rarely blatant errors. They are usually contract-compliant, poorly understood, and quietly expensive.

Quiet renewals with uplifted pricing

Contracts renew automatically with higher rates, different tiers, or added bundles — often without an explicit approval step.

Bundle padding

Services are sold as a package, but only part of the bundle is actively used. The unused components quietly persist on invoices.

License counts that never go down

User counts increase during growth or projects, but are never reduced when staff leave or needs change.

Legacy add-ons with no current owner

Support tiers, modules, or services added years ago remain billed even though no one internally knows what they are for.

Invoice descriptions that obscure scope

Vague line items make it difficult to tie charges back to contracts, delivered services, or actual usage — reducing internal scrutiny.

None of these require bad intent. They rely on complexity, silence, and time. Our job is to surface them with evidence so decisions can be made cleanly.

How the audit works.

A short process with clear deliverables. No drifting, no endless analysis.

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Collect and map

You provide the last 3 to 12 months of invoices plus current contracts and renewal emails. We map vendors, services, and recurring charges into a clean view.

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Detect and validate

We search for duplicates, overlaps, unused licenses, vendor games, and term mismatches. Every finding is tied back to a document line item or contract clause.

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Deliver recovery plan

You receive a report with proof, priorities, and scripts for cancellations, disputes, and renegotiation. Optional executive summary available.

Simple, all-inclusive fixed pricing. No percentages.

Unlike many audit providers who take a cut of your savings, we charge a straightforward fixed fee. Most audits are one-time engagements. Ongoing monitoring is available as an optional add-on.

Billing Fraud Detection Audit
Evidence-based review and recovery plan.
Fixed fee • All-inclusive
Pricing tiers (exact quote after quick scoping call)
Basic
$1,495–$1,995

Up to 10 vendors
3–6 months invoices

Standard Most popular
$2,495–$3,495

10–20 vendors
Up to 12 months + contracts

Premium
$3,995+

Complex/multi-year
or deeper usage analysis

Optional ongoing monitoring
$395/month

Monthly invoice validation and subscription drift monitoring.

  • * No percentage of savings — you keep 100% of recoveries.
  • * Fixed scope, fixed deliverables, no open-ended consulting.
  • * Evidence-backed findings with invoice references and contract clauses.

All pricing in USD. Taxes extra where applicable. Typical clients recover 5–15× the audit fee in year-one savings.

Common findings
What we usually uncover.
Vendor games

Auto-renew traps, bundle padding, and add-ons that appear without clear approval or ownership.

Duplicate subscriptions

Same category of tool paid twice (security, backup, licensing, monitoring).

Quiet renewals and stale add-ons

Auto-renewed items no one remembers approving, plus legacy support add-ons.

Seat and tier mismatch

Paying for more users than exist, wrong plan tier, or licenses for former staff.

Contract vs invoice mismatch

Rates, dates, or included scope not matching the signed terms.

Every finding must be evidence-backed. If it cannot be proven, it is not included as a finding.

Common questions.

Short answers so you can decide quickly if this is worth doing.

Next step

Want to know what you are overpaying for?

If you have multiple IT vendors, recurring subscriptions, or renewals that happen quietly, this audit usually pays for itself quickly — often 5–15× the fee in the first year.

Start the audit by email
If you prefer, send “billing audit” plus your company name and vendor count.