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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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How to Choose Between a Payment Facilitator (PayFac) and a Merchant of Record (MoR) for Your Business

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To simplify the intricacies of payment processing, two well-known solutions have surfaced: Payment Facilitators (PayFacs) and Merchants of Record (MoRs). Understanding Payfac vs Merchant of Record Payment Facilitators (Payfacs) and Merchants of Record (MoRs) are two different ways to process payments.

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Payment facilitation and risk management: What do vertical software companies need to know?

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What is a PayFac® developer? As a PayFac developer , software companies become their own payment facilitator , and therefore, can offer payment processing services directly to their merchants. We will explore the risk s in more detail in the next section. What is PayFac-as-a-Service?

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Payment Facilitator vs Payment Gateway: Key Differences and Similarities

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TL;DR Payment gateways and PayFacs are both players in the digital payment process with similar goals in mind: secure and low-risk payments while providing seamless, fast, and positive customer experiences. A PayFac, by contrast, handles the bank’s interaction with a number of merchants. What is a Payment Facilitator (or PayFac)?

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Thanks to Capchase, Intellum, Pilot, SafeBase, and Tilled for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2022!

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Intellum is an Atlanta-based learning technology company that combines the best of customer experience with customer education to help large brands and fast-moving companies increase revenue, improve customer retention and decrease support costs. Welcome to Payfac-as-a-service. appeared first on SaaStr.

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Pumped up profits, with less heavy lifting

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Its payfac-as-a-service solution — Payrix Pro — enabled Nick to control the onboarding and customer service, while Payrix managed the processing, compliance, and most of the risk and liability. Maintaining control over the customer experience is also crucial to the fitDEGREE brand. I didn’t want the liability issues either.”

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ISV vs PayFac: The Similarities and Differences Between Independent Software Vendors and Payment Facilitators

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In this article, we’ll break down two popular terms used in the payment processing industry—ISV and PayFac —and see what they exactly mean. There are two main ways that an ISV can become a payment provider—by adopting the ISO model or the PayFac model. What Is an ISV vs PayFac?