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Merchant onboarding 101: Insights for software payments success | Episode 45

Payrix

Ian Hillis welcomes David Blair, Senior Director of Product Management at Worldpay for Platforms, on PayFAQ: The Embedded Payments podcast to explore the critical roles of merchant underwriting and onboarding for software providers. Whats on the horizon?

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Meet the Rockstars of Risk: Essential insights for software companies navigating payments, compliance, and security

Payrix

Ensuring secure, seamless payment processing is more essential – and complex – than ever today. At Payrix from Worldpay, we have an internal team of risk management experts dedicated to helping software companies, like yours, manage payment processing, fraud prevention, and compliance. compliance.

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Master merchant: Definition, types, and examples

Payrix

What is a master merchant? A master merchant, often referred to as a payment facilitator or merchant aggregator, is a third-party agent that acts as the link between acquirers and online merchants. Whats the relevance of a master merchant in software-led payments and financial services?

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Glossary: 117 software-led payments terms to know

Payrix

Interested in learning more about software-led payments or joining the current Embedded Payments conversations in your organization? This blog post is your ultimate guide to understanding the most used payments terms today. This blog post is your ultimate guide to understanding the most used payments terms today.

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Get More Help With Merchant Onboarding and Get Payments Going Your Way

As software companies become a larger part of the payments world, you will have to determine how much of a role you want to play and how far up the payments revenue food chain you want to go.

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Merchant Underwriting: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It’s Important

Stax

The merchant underwriting process is a critical step that payment processors and financial institutions use to assess the risk associated with onboarding new businesses. Key steps include application review, risk assessment, credit checks, and compliance verification.

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The Best FinTechs for PayFac-as-a-Service: Because DIY is Overrated

USIO

Becoming your own Payment Facilitator (PayFac) sounds greatuntil you realize its a regulatory nightmare , a financial black hole , and takes longer than your last DIY home improvement project (which, lets be honest, is still unfinished). So, which fintechs offer the best PayFac-as-a-Service? Lets break it down. Eventually.

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"I Love Filling Out 12-Page Applications and Waiting Weeks For a Response,” Said No Merchant Ever

For the Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) providing business solutions to their merchants, the legacy payments ecosystem does not operate in their favor. ISVs have no control over the processes that touch their merchants every day.

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An Omnichannel Payment Solution––Without the Complexity

Simplify omnichannel payments with a solution that unifies every channel through your platform. By integrating front-end systems like online, mobile, and in-store payments with robust back-end infrastructure, you can deliver a seamless payments experience without the need for heavy engineering.

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Solving the Payments Puzzle: What SaaS Pros Need to Know

From emerging payment technologies to the importance of intuitive software design, the world of embedded payments is rapidly evolving. How do you stay ahead while serving up what merchants really want in your software offerings? The Merchant Insider report is here to help, offering unique insights into the merchant perspective.

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Your Guide to Embedded Payments

Right now, the embedded payments conversation can be downright confusing. Part of the reason for this owes to the sheer volume of terms used to describe some of the approaches within the space, like payfac, payment facilitator, merchant of record (MOR), embedded payments, software-led payments––and that's just to name a few.

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PayOps Fact Sheet

Why integrate payments into your platform, and how does Infinicept help? Infinicept's PayOps™ platform helps your business onboard and manage merchants so you can generate payments revenue, control your customer experience, deliver an improved product, and increase valuation.

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3 Ways Innovators Can Capitalize on Embedded Payments

Software companies are looking, feeling, and acting more like merchant services providers. It’s everywhere. This can be sobering for financial institutions – for good reason. They risk losing a source of stable, low-cost deposits and non-interest revenue market share, but don’t be fooled. FIs still have crucial roles to play.

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Underwriting 101: What is Underwriting and Why is it Important?

Underwriting in the payments industry is the process of assessing and verifying potential customers – including adherence to banking, brand, and governmental rules – to protect consumers from entities that want to engage in fraud or other illegal activities by accepting credit card transactions.

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SaaS Payments 101: Roadmap for Monetizing Payments

Embedded solutions have taken the software industry by storm and disrupted the traditional distribution network for financial services, like payment processing. The payment facilitation (payfac) model and partnership offerings create a near- and long-term roadmap for SaaS growth and transformation.