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Stax Payments evolves Into full-stack, end-to-end payments processor with Stax Processing

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Stax Payments Completes Evolution Into a Full-Stack, End-to-End Payments Processor With Launch of Stax Processing

This milestone positions Stax to deliver greater agility, scalability and control, redefining the payments experience for its customers ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stax Payments, a leading payment technology provider, today announced the launch of Stax Processing, marking the completion of its evolution into a full-stack, end-to-end payments processor. This milestone ushers in a new era for the company, defined by greater autonomy, adaptability, and innovation.

Built on the strategic and successful integrations of APPS and BlockChyp, Stax Processing unifies the payments lifecycle, from origination through API and gateway to tokenization, clearing, and settlement. - Share

The project and technology behind Stax Processing was developed and managed entirely in-house by Stax’s internal team, ensuring full ownership and control of the payments experience. By removing longstanding industry barriers, Stax has reduced reliance on third parties and gained the ability to adapt rapidly to technological and market shifts, giving independent software vendors (ISVs) and merchants the flexibility to deliver smarter, faster solutions for their customers. This achievement is the capstone of a multi-year strategic vision to vertically integrate the entire payments lifecycle, achieved through key acquisitions and technology unification.

“With Stax Processing, we’ve brought to life our vision of delivering end-to-end payment experiences on our own platform,” said Paulette Rowe, CEO at Stax. “This launch represents a pivotal moment for our company, giving customers the visibility, flexibility, and control they need to deliver seamless transactions, strengthen customer relationships, and unlock new revenue opportunities. We are proud to have built the technology to power our own end-to-end processing, freeing ourselves and our partners from the constraints of legacy third-party systems that many others in the industry still rely on. The fact that Stax Processing was achieved on time and on budget, without the need for external technology service consultants, speaks to the exceptional talent across engineering, product, and program management that fuels innovation at Stax.”

Built on the strategic and successful integrations of APPS and BlockChyp, Stax Processing unifies the payments lifecycle, from origination through API and gateway to tokenization, clearing, and settlement. This single-source solution provides a direct connection to all major U.S. card networks and brings the full transaction flow in-house, enabling a level of data orchestration and control difficult to achieve when relying on separate third-party relationships. The solution eliminates common issues that arise from using multiple, disconnected vendors such as fragmented data, operational constraints, and inefficient customer support and delivers real-time insights, flexible monetization options, and dedicated support, enabling businesses to make faster, smarter decisions that drive higher revenue and accelerate growth.

Key capabilities and benefits available through Stax Processing include:

Greater adaptability and innovation in technology: With proprietary control of the full payment journey, Stax can rapidly deploy enhancements, seamlessly integrate with ISV platforms, and create vertical-specific payments solutions that offer ISVs and merchants compliant and resilient payments platforms. This unified data foundation powers AI-enabled tools, which help orchestrate fraud controls, deliver hyper-personalized customer experience, and unlock new revenue opportunities for partners.

Optimized onboarding and customer success support: Stax’s purpose-built systems and teams are designed to streamline go-to-market efforts, reduce time to revenue, and offer dedicated support for software partners and their merchants to drive payments attachment and maximize revenues.

Enhanced risk and compliance controls: Enhanced fraud prevention capabilities are now embedded within every layer of the transaction life cycle, which can be orchestrated to fine-tune risk prevention and minimize impact to merchants.

Direct access to card brands: By connecting directly to Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and now certified with American Express OptBlue, Stax improves performance, enhances dispute resolution, and reduces processing delays.

Enhanced omnichannel and compliant surcharging support: Stax offers ISVs and their merchants the ability to meet customers where they are — online, in person, or in-app — while maintaining compliance and maximizing margin retention.

Stax Processing capabilities directly address the top challenges identified in the company’s research, also published today, which reveals that while 91% of ISVs expect embedded payments to play a larger role in their growth strategy, 34% report they are only somewhat confident in their organization’s ability to define and measure ROI from embedded payments, with challenges like revenue attribution and inconsistent reporting.

“It’s clear that ISVs and their merchants expect more from payments, but gaps in visibility, support, and flexibility are holding them back. With Stax Processing, we’ve unlocked the full potential of payments by unifying the entire experience, providing the seamless, efficient, and scalable solutions they want — and need — to grow,” concluded Rowe.

To learn more about redefining your embedded payments experience, contact Stax Payments here.

For more information about Stax, visit staxpayments.com.

About Stax

Stax Payments is a leading, high-growth payments technology provider that helps software companies, resellers, and SMBs realize the value of integrated payments for their business. Stax helps drive incremental revenue through frictionless, secure, and reliable payment processing and recurring billing solutions. From robust reporting to easily reconciled payments, Stax offers a full suite of adaptable tools and payment features to build the right solution at any scale, unlocking partner and customer success. Since 2014, Stax has grown to process over $23 billion annually in payments and serve more than 39,000 businesses and software platforms across the U.S. and Canada.

Contacts Michael Terry Caraher Walker Sands for Stax stax@walkersands.com

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