Paystaq
PSPs · neobanks · ISO/MSPs · payment platforms

Launch your payment
product faster.

Building a PSP, neobank, or payment platform from scratch takes 18–24 months and millions in engineering. Paystaq gives you the processing infrastructure — acquirer network, routing engine, risk scoring, merchant management — so you can go to market in weeks, not years.

6–8 weeks
Typical time to first live merchant
200+
Acquirers in the network
PCI DSS L1
Compliance inherited from day one
yourpsp.paystaq.com/merchants
Merchant Portfolio
Your branded PSP · White-label dashboard
247 merchants
Platform revenue
€48,320
this month
Total volume
€6.2M
last 30 days
Avg approval
93.8%
all merchants
Merchant
Volume
Status
🇩🇪
TrustPay EU
€2.4M/mo
live
🇸🇪
NordFinance
€890K/mo
live
🇳🇱
AlphaGate
€1.1M/mo
onboarding
🇬🇧
SwiftPay Ltd
€3.2M/mo
live
ROUTING RULE · MERCHANT: TRUSTPAY EU
if card.bin.country == "DE" acquirer.deutsche_bank
elif amount > 5000 acquirer.tier1_eu
else smart_routing.auto
Your brand · your domain · your acquirer rates
THE FINTECH PAYMENT INFRASTRUCTURE PROBLEM

Six reasons payment companies build slower than they should

Every payment company faces the same infrastructure challenges. Paystaq exists to remove them.

Building payment infrastructure takes years
A full PSP stack — gateway, routing engine, risk scoring, merchant portal, reporting — takes 18–24 months to build and millions to maintain. Most fintech teams underestimate the depth until they're already deep in.
PCI DSS compliance is expensive and recurring
Achieving PCI DSS Level 1 requires a formal QSA audit, significant infrastructure investment, and annual re-certification. It's a meaningful barrier for any new payment company and an ongoing operational cost for established ones.
Acquirer relationships are slow to establish
Negotiating direct acquirer agreements takes months — legal reviews, risk assessments, volume commitments, and integration work. Each new acquirer is a project in itself. PSPs need coverage from day one, not 18 months in.
Onboarding and managing merchants at scale is operationally heavy
Every merchant needs KYC, underwriting, risk assessment, and ongoing monitoring. As your portfolio grows, managing hundreds of merchants with different risk profiles, volumes, and geographies becomes a full-time operation.
Cross-border regulatory requirements stack up fast
PSD2 in Europe, EMI licensing requirements, state-level money transmitter licences in the US — each market you enter adds compliance obligations. Payment companies that expand without a compliance-ready infrastructure get stuck.
No visibility across the merchant portfolio
With merchants processing across multiple acquirers and payment methods, aggregating approval rates, decline reasons, chargeback exposure, and revenue per merchant into a single view requires significant analytics infrastructure.
THREE-LEVEL APPROVAL ENGINE

The processing engine under every Paystaq product

When you build on Paystaq, your merchants inherit three layers of payment intelligence — running on every transaction, across your entire portfolio.

01
UPQS — Pre-transaction validation

Protect your platform from bad transactions before they reach your acquirers

UPQS runs every transaction from every merchant in your portfolio through 40+ quality signals before routing. It catches stolen cards, card testing attacks, and high-risk BINs at the gate — protecting your chargeback ratios and acquirer relationships at the platform level.

BIN-level card health scoring across 100M+ records
Velocity and pattern detection per merchant and device
Pre-auth validation before acquirer commitment
Shields your platform MID from merchant-level fraud
02
Sentinel ML — Real-time fraud scoring

Merchant-level and portfolio-level fraud intelligence

Sentinel scores transactions in under 50ms using models that adapt to each merchant's category, volume, and risk profile. It also monitors patterns across your entire merchant portfolio — detecting collusion, unusual volume spikes, and merchants drifting into high-risk behaviour before they affect your platform.

Sub-50ms scoring with zero checkout latency
Per-merchant adaptive risk thresholds
Portfolio-wide anomaly detection across merchants
Automatic payout hold triggers on risk threshold breach
03
Smart Routing — Optimised transaction flow

Route every merchant's transactions to the best available acquirer

Smart Routing uses real-time acquirer performance data, BIN-acquirer affinity, and merchant-specific routing rules to maximise approval rates across your entire portfolio. Define rules per merchant, per transaction type, or per geography — the engine executes them in under 200ms.

Per-merchant routing rules via dashboard or API
Real-time acquirer performance weighting
Automatic cascading retry on soft decline
Volume distribution and MID health monitoring
FULL CAPABILITY SET

Everything a payment company needs to launch and scale

The full payment infrastructure stack — without the years of build time.

White-label processing infrastructure
Full processing stack — gateway, routing, risk, merchant portal — under your brand and domain. Your merchants see your product, not Paystaq's.
200+ acquirer connections
Access to a pre-built network of 200+ acquirers and payment providers from day one. No individual negotiation, no per-acquirer integration work.
Merchant management & onboarding
Built-in merchant onboarding workflow with KYC tooling, risk assessment, and per-merchant routing rules. Manage your entire portfolio from one dashboard.
PCI DSS Level 1 — inherited
Your platform operates within Paystaq's PCI DSS Level 1 certification scope. No annual QSA audit, no infrastructure build-out for compliance. It's included.
Flexible fee & commission engine
Set transaction fees, monthly fees, FX margins, and refund charges per merchant. Your revenue model, configured in the dashboard — no custom development required.
Multi-currency & cross-border payouts
Accept payments and pay out to merchants in 150+ currencies, with local payment methods per region. Expand to new markets without adding infrastructure.
Automated reconciliation & reporting
Transaction-level reconciliation across all acquirers, merchants, and currencies — automated and exportable. Finance teams close the month in hours, not days.
Portfolio analytics
Approval rates, chargeback exposure, decline reasons, and revenue — segmented by merchant, acquirer, payment method, and geography. Spot problems before they escalate.
WHICH PRODUCT IS RIGHT FOR YOU?

Two products. One processing engine.

The right choice depends on how much of the stack you want to own and how much you already have.

Not sure which fits?
If you're launching a new payment product, start with Whitelabel. If you have an existing gateway and want better acquirer coverage, start with Payment Bridge.

Whitelabel Processor

Best for PSPs, ISO/MSPs, and fintechs launching or scaling a payment product

Whitelabel Processor gives you the complete processing infrastructure under your brand — gateway, routing, risk scoring, merchant management, reconciliation — so you can launch your PSP or payment platform without building any of it yourself. You own the merchant relationships and the revenue; Paystaq powers everything underneath.

Your brand, domain, and merchant-facing UI
Full merchant portfolio management and KYC tooling
Per-merchant routing rules and fee configuration
PCI DSS Level 1 compliance and SOC 2 — inherited
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GET STARTED

Ready to launch your
payment product?

Book a demo and we'll walk through your current setup — and show you how quickly Paystaq can get you to market.