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    Engage more customers and lower the cost of payments.

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    Imagine and realize new customer experiences.

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    Simplify global payments and offer more choice.

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    Grow revenue, lower costs, reduce risk.

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    Simplify integration and get to market faster.

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    Unlock revenue in markets that matter to you.

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    Drive customer acquisition, retention, and loyalty.

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    Attract more customers and reduce cart abandonment.

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    Low-cost ACH payments without chargebacks.

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    Deliver fast, more secure, cost-effective payouts.

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    Extend digital checkouts to all of your customers.

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    Help reduce fraud losses and maximize acceptance.

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    Help secure your business with multiple layers of end-to-end protection.

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    Help approve more customers, and manage and reduce risk.

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Integration 70%+ Reduction in development time with Carat.

Our simple, configurable, and iterative integration process streamlines a unified payments, reporting, and boarding experience within your current infrastructure. By minimizing maintenance efforts and reducing operational costs, we empower you to innovatively engage consumers and elevate your brand's presence.

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“Experience speed like never before”

- A leading home improvement retailer integrated, tested, and launched on our platform all in just 24 hours.

Orchestrate what
matters to you

Create more secure, frictionless consumer experiences across virtually all payment methods, channels, devices and partners - on a global scale.

Save time with
our API

Built by developers for developers, our modern Restful API saves time and coding effort for merchants that want to create seamless customer experiences across channels.

Access the Carat platform and the powerful assets of Fiserv through a simple yet powerful omnichannel API.

Bring your
existing code

Reduce conversion effort by keeping your current messaging specifications. Simplify integration and eliminate incremental development or reliance on third-party POS vendors by leveraging our translator.

Our translator supports industry standard messaging specifications and many legacy formats, ensuring fast integration with our API.

Multi-acquirer
routing

Save time and reduce costs with intelligent transaction routing to multiple acquirers that is configurable to your business, risk profile, or market presence.

Maximize uptime and performance. Maintain connections to local acquirers. When a soft-decline happens, ensure a frictionless customer experience by re-routing automatically.

Elevate your payment strategy, redefine efficiency, and optimize every transaction.

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Agile, digital-forward, developer-engineered solutions that are easy to adopt. Build and validate your code quickly using documentation and our API Explorer to test against a live sandbox prior to deploying.

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