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What Is an ACH Payment Facilitator?

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Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments are a type of electronic bank-to-bank payment system in the US. Unlike payments facilitated by card networks like Visa or Mastercard, ACH payments are managed by a body called the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA). Let’s get started.

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How to Streamline Your SaaS Clients’ Merchant Underwriting Process—and Improve Adoption Rates

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Your SaaS clients will need to have a master merchant account if they want to facilitate ACH, debit cards, eChecks, and credit card payments for their sub-merchants. By hiring the services of a payment facilitator or processor, a business does not have to open its own merchant account. This system works very well for SaaS providers.