As a merchant, the sheer volume of gateways, payment service providers, and orchestrators from which to choose can be overwhelming.
Each annual guide breaks down how each payment service works and what tools the merchants and clients have at their disposal. To reduce qualitative noise, we reviewed each vendor using the same four categories:
Functional Architecture
What the platform’s capabilities are. What kind of transactions can it support. The value-added services they offer.
Technology
The platform’s physical attributes such as the technologies used and the payment method capture technologies they deploy.
Customer Support
The self-service tools and account management practices that facilitate how a user interacts with the platform.
Pricing Model
How the platform bills for services be it per-API call, per-transaction call, per-Valorem.
This annual buyers guide is published in collaboration with our partners at Paladin Group and under the sponsorship of the Merchant Risk Council.
