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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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SaaS companies can avoid having to integrate their software with that of gateways and banks, undergo thorough merchant underwriting, and submit mountains of documents by working with a trusted PayFac like Stax to make their software more comprehensive for their clients. What Is Merchant Underwriting?