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Understanding Risk Management Strategies as a PayFac

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Two of the most popular payment solution providers for businesses looking to accept digital payments are payment processors and payment facilitators (PayFacs). PayFacs handle risk assessment, underwriting, settling of funds, compliance, and chargebacks which exposes them to greater potential risks.

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The Ultimate Guide to Ecommerce Payment Solutions

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This requires the merchant to become a registered payment facilitator or PayFac. A PayFac is a payment service provider for eCommerce merchants. On top of being a new pillar of revenue for your business, the PayFac model also gives you more control. This is considerably faster compared to a traditional merchant account provider.

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Understanding Risk Management Strategies as a PayFac

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For SaaS companies, becoming a payment facilitator (or PayFac) offers a ton of advantages—including but not limited to—boosting retention and profitability while exercising greater control over the customer experience. However, several complex types of risks come along with this.

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Stax Celebrates 10 Years: Looking Back at a Decade of Growth and Payment Innovations

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To the incredible Stax community: allow us to take a moment to recognize a milestone that we are extraordinarily proud of—our 10th anniversary. Sprinkled throughout this article are quotes from some of Stax’s long-standing employees, because who better to tell the company’s story than the people who help make it happen?

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What Is an ACH Payment Facilitator?

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TL;DR A payment facilitator (PayFac) is essentially a SaaS vendor or software provider that enables its users (businesses) to accept online payments from their customers through the platform itself. An ACH payment facilitator, therefore, is simply a PayFac that allows users to accept payments through an electronic bank-to-bank network.

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How to Streamline Your SaaS Clients’ Merchant Underwriting Process—and Improve Adoption Rates

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Offering payment processing services is a move that makes sense for a lot of SaaS companies, particularly if your software helps your customers run their business. For example, if you have a project management app, then you can add payment features that allow people to use your software to take payments from their clients.