Find payment partners that fit your business.
Whatever your business model or status,
we can find
a solution for you.
Especially businesses that are
traditionally
hard to place.
See which payment partners are likely to accept your business before you apply
Why?A declined application costs you more than time
Apply to the wrong partners, or with something missing, and your business pays for it.
Wasted Time & Momentum
Weeks waiting on a review, only to get a sudden no.
Stalled Revenue
Launches on hold and checkouts offline while you scramble for another partner.
Starting From Scratch
Providers don't share applications, so every no means starting over with the next one.
Your three-minute matching walkthrough
How Payments Marketplace Works
Tell Us About You
Share your industry, country, currency and website.
Run Your Check
We check your business against each provider's rules.
Apply Anonymously
Send an anonymised profile to the partners you choose.
Get Your Answer
A provider either invites you to apply formally or declines.
How your business stays anonymous from start to finish
See how your details are checked against each payment provider’s rules without revealing who you are.
Built to help you avoid the declines you could have seen coming
See how your business measures up against what providers accept, in under two minutes
Check your business model, industry, country, monthly volume and trading history against the rules payment providers (PSPs) publish. Beyond cards, many take on complex and licensed businesses and offer methods such as crypto and local payment options.
Catch website problems before an underwriter does
Underwriters reject up to 40% of applications due to missing legal disclosures or site defects. Our AI scanner validates your site policies before underwriters inspect it.
Understand How PSPs Assess Your Risk
There is no single risk score that follows your business from provider to provider. Every payment provider sets its own appetite and its own underwriting rules, so the same business can be routine for one and outside appetite for another. Below are the three responses a provider typically gives — and what sits behind each.
Boarded through ordinary underwriting
The sectors the industry calls low risk. Most providers board this kind of profile without special handling: established trading, predictable fulfilment, low disputes, and no sector licence to verify. It is the profile the widest range of providers will quote for — though low risk is not the same as approved, and any one of them can still decline on criteria of its own.
Commonly assessed this way
What Underwriters Look At
The factors underwriters weigh. How much each one counts is set by the provider, not by your sector:
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Prohibited is not a fourth tier — it is a list, and every provider keeps its own
Card scheme rules put some activity out of bounds everywhere. Past that, each provider publishes its own prohibited list, and the lists genuinely differ: an activity one provider will not touch is ordinary business for the next. It is the one outcome settled before underwriting starts rather than by it — which is precisely why it is worth knowing before you apply rather than after.
Building a Multi-PSP Strategy? Pre-Vet Before You Orchestrate
Payment orchestration platforms give you smart routing engine rules — but you still need pre-vetted, compatible Payment Service Providers (PSPs) to route transactions to. A routing engine cannot route around a provider that declined you.
Payments Marketplace matches your profile against every published rulebook at once, so you can build a stack from partners whose rules fit your business — rather than discovering the gaps after the integration work is done.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about your pre-flight check, partner matching and privacy.
Payments Marketplace evaluates your business metrics (volume, country, industry, processing history) against live provider acceptance parameters using anonymised IDs. Your company name, directors, and contact information are never shared with any Payment Service Provider (PSP) until one of them accepts your application — at which point you are introduced to each other by email. We do not sell your information for marketing purposes under any circumstances.
Anonymity is the first rule governing matching here — see how matching works, for both sides.
Payments Marketplace is 100% free for Merchants. We charge PSPs a fee for each deal they accept, agreed with each provider when they are onboarded, for each band of the Merchant's expected monthly volume. Payments Marketplace has no commercial arrangements whereby any commission, fee, or other cost is taken from or passed on to the Merchant.
There are no ongoing commissions, transaction-based fees or payment markups charged to Merchants. Merchants therefore incur no cost for using Payments Marketplace or being introduced to a PSP.
No. Payments Marketplace runs pure pre-flight algorithmic matching without performing hard credit checks or submitting formal acquirer filings.
Yes. Payments Marketplace evaluates low-risk, mid-risk, and specialised high-risk PSPs — including acquirers equipped to board licensed verticals, Crypto on-ramps, nutra, CBD, travel, and diverse alternative payment methods (APMs).
Because each application has been checked against the provider’s published rules first, responses tend to be quick — typically within 24 to 48 hours.
Payments Marketplace features an AI Compliance Scanner that identifies missing or incomplete website disclosures including terms and conditions, refund policies, and billing descriptors during pre-flight analysis. It provides actionable recommendations to help you address potential compliance gaps, improving your application readiness before submitting to your chosen PSPs.
Payments Marketplace evaluates your business profile against specialised high-risk acquirers and recovery payment providers experienced in onboarding merchants with elevated chargeback ratios or previously terminated merchant accounts, helping you identify suitable payment partners aligned with your risk profile and processing needs.
Yes. Payments Marketplace is specifically designed to overcome the sourcing and underwriting bottleneck associated with multi-PSP architectures. While Payments Marketplace does not function as a payment orchestration engine or routing layer, it enables you to assess your merchant profile against multiple providers simultaneously and secure invitations to formally apply from multiple compatible PSPs. This helps you build a shortlist of highly compatible providers suitable for integration with your existing payment orchestration platform or smart-routing engine.
Payments Marketplace was founded and developed by David Copper, MSc, a full-stack developer, and senior payments consultant, supported by a team of industry specialists. The development journey of this Next-Gen Payments Marketplace started on Friday, 4th October 2024, progressing through key engineering phases to its Public Beta release on 1st August 2026 and into production on 15th September 2026:
| Milestone Date | Release Focus | Key Engineering Deliverables |
|---|---|---|
| 04 Oct 2024 | Project Inception | Foundation, architecture charter, and multi-domain ecosystem setup (opaq.io) |
| Nov 2024 – Mar 2025 | Core Engine & Data | Rust matching engine, 120+ MCC taxonomy, MySQL transactional schemas, and pgvector (PostgreSQL) embeddings |
| Apr 2025 – Jun 2025 | Merchant & AI Scanner | Pre-flight wizard UI and AI website compliance & disclosure scanner |
| Jul 2025 – Sep 2025 | PSP Underwriting Portal | Provider rule customiser, appetite parameters, and anonymised deal flow |
| Oct 2025 – Dec 2025 | Commercials & Alpha | Success-fee ledger, APM/crypto rails, and closed alpha |
| Apr 2026 – Jun 2026 | Security & PSP Sandbox | GDPR privacy verification, sub-50ms query tuning, and Pioneer PSP sandbox |
| 01 Aug 2026 | Beta Go-Live | General availability of the Payments Marketplace for Merchants, ISOs, and PSPs |
| 15 Sep 2026 | Production Go-Live | Release 1.0.0 live in production, matching against demo providers ahead of the formal launch in November 2026 |
Payments Marketplace's role is limited to facilitating the connection between you and the relevant PSP. We have no control over, or involvement in, the PSP's onboarding process or its decision to accept or decline an application. If a PSP declines an application, we are unable to intervene, influence the decision or submit an appeal on your behalf. Further information about what happens following a declined application can be found in Section 3 of our Rules.
We are here to help. If your concern is about our platform or the service we provide, please contact us at connect@payments-marketplace.com and we will do our best to resolve it. If your concern relates to a PSP, ISO, payment processing, funds, onboarding, or services provided after a deal has been accepted, you'll need to contact the relevant PSP or ISO directly, as they are responsible for those services and for handling complaints relating to them.