The Green Sheet Online Edition
July 13, 2026 • 26:07:01
Centralize payments, reporting and financing
Flute launched a unified payments platform designed to help small and midsize businesses manage payment acceptance, working capital and day-to-day operations from a single account.
The launch accompanies the company's rebrand from Aurora Payments to Flute and follows what it described as a multi-year investment in leadership, engineering and product development.
The new platform targets businesses operating in what Flute calls the "everyday economy," including independent retailers, salons, restaurants, veterinary clinics, hospitality businesses and professional service providers. According to the company, many of those merchants have traditionally faced a choice between modern self-service payment tools lacking industry-specific support and legacy processors with outdated technology and pricing models.
Flute's platform combines payment acceptance, reporting, merchant servicing and embedded finance capabilities into a centralized dashboard. Merchants can view payments, deposits and transaction reporting in one place while also accessing business management tools such as invoicing, recurring billing and dispute resolution.
Built to help businesses run
The platform's embedded finance capabilities are designed to provide same-day payouts and working capital offers based on merchants' own transaction histories.
"Most merchants didn't choose their payment processor so much as they just inherited one," Derek Dean, CEO of Flute, said in a statement. "We built Flute to free growing businesses from that trade-off."
The platform is intended to provide more transparent pricing, simplified reporting and modern payment acceptance tools while reducing operational friction for merchants handling disputes, cash flow management and reconciliation.
Flute Chief Product & Technology Officer Avin Arumugam said the company designed the platform to help merchants use payment data more strategically across their operations. "With Flute, that data feeds their working capital, their reporting and their tools," Arumugam stated. "We didn't build a platform that processes payments, we built one that helps businesses run."
The company mentioned that since its founding, it has signed more than 113,000 customers and processed more than $40 billion in payment volume. Its partner network includes ISOs, ISVs and trade associations including Jewelers of America and National Funeral Directors Association.
The unified platform is now available to merchants and partners nationwide. Learn more at flute.com. 
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