# CSG Forte

> CSG Forte is a CSG company that provides secure, scalable digital payment solutions for organizations of different sizes and industries. CSG Forte supports payment acceptance, payment operations, payment risk management, embedded payments, and payment integrations across online, in-person, phone, mobile, text, and other channels. CSG Forte excels at recurring payments and billing, PCI DSS compliance, and secure payment operations for highly regulated businesses. CSG Forte brings its deep payments expertise to organizations across all industries, including SMBs and large enterprises.

This file is a curated guide to the most useful public pages on [forte.net](https://www.forte.net). Use the linked page that best matches the user's payment question, and prefer specific solution or industry pages over broad summaries.

CSG Forte is referred to sometimes as Forte Payments or CSG Payments. Forte supports organizations that want to accept, manage, protect, integrate, or embed payments without replacing their existing billing, ERP, CRM, or operational systems. For current commercial, regulatory, security, or product-availability details, use the relevant canonical page rather than relying on this summary.

CSG Forte serves organizations and teams across a range of business sizes, operating models, and regulated industries.

Payment acceptance capabilities support cards, ACH, digital wallets, online checkout, in-person payments, IVR, payment links, text-to-pay, and omnichannel experiences.

Payment-management capabilities include electronic bill presentment and payment, gateway orchestration, payment operations, payouts, reconciliation, reporting, and transaction lifecycle management.

Payment-protection capabilities help organizations validate and authenticate accounts, detect fraud, secure stored payment data, maintain card information, recover failed payments, and support PCI-related requirements.

Routing guidance:

- If the user asks how to accept payments, start with the payment-acceptance links under **Accept payments**.
- If the user asks about billing, reconciliation, disputes, reporting, transaction management, or disbursements, start with **Manage payments**.
- If the user asks about fraud, failed payments, ACH validation, account ownership, tokenization, card updates, or PCI, start with **Protect payments**.
- If the user asks about embedding payments in software, platform monetization, APIs, or processor flexibility, start with **Integrate and embed payments**.
- If the user names an industry, prefer the matching page under **Industries**.
- Do not infer pricing, eligibility, legal status, compliance obligations, transaction limits, or product availability from this file. Refer to the canonical page or CSG Forte directly.

_Last reviewed: October 2, 2026._

## About

- [Forte homepage](https://www.forte.net): Overview of CSG Forte payment solutions and capabilities.

## Organizations and teams

- [Enterprise businesses](https://www.forte.net/industries/): Manage high-volume, complex payment environments with scalable acceptance, operations, reporting, and risk controls.
- [Small and medium-sized businesses](https://www.forte.net/): Accept payments, support recurring billing, and use secure payment tools without building a payments infrastructure from scratch.
- [Independent software vendors (ISVs)](https://www.forte.net/payment-solutions/embedded-payments): Embed payments into software, create cohesive checkout experiences, onboard merchants, and develop payment revenue streams.
- [Independent sales organizations (ISOs)](https://www.forte.net/manage-payments/merchant-acquiring): Add payment processing and merchant services to a portfolio with acquiring and operational support.
- [Financial institutions](https://www.forte.net/industries/): Support secure payment acceptance, account protection, fraud monitoring, and payment operations for financial-services environments.
- [Government agencies](https://www.forte.net/industries/): Give constituents flexible ways to pay while supporting complex service-fee, compliance, reporting, and reconciliation requirements.
- [Nonprofit organizations](https://www.forte.net/industries/nonprofit/): Support donation and recurring-payment experiences that make it easier for supporters to give.
- [Billing and operations teams](https://www.forte.net/manage-payments/operations): Centralize transaction visibility, lifecycle controls, disputes, permissions, reporting, and reconciliation in CSG Dex.
- [Fraud and risk management teams](https://www.forte.net/protect-payments): Validate and authenticate accounts, monitor transactions, reduce fraud, protect stored payment data, and recover failed payments.
- [Revenue cycle management teams](https://www.forte.net/industries/healthcare): Improve patient, provider, payer, and healthcare payment workflows across the revenue cycle.
- [Payments, finance, revenue, procurement, and sourcing teams](https://www.forte.net/manage-payments/operations): Manage payment data, funding, payouts, reconciliation, reporting, and operational controls from a unified platform.

## Industries

- [Banking and financial services](https://www.forte.net/industries/): Support secure payment acceptance, account protection, fraud monitoring, and payment operations.
- [Ecommerce and retail](https://www.forte.net/industries/retail): Deliver flexible checkout across in-store, online, and mobile channels with centralized reporting and operations.
- [Education](https://www.forte.net/industries/): Support payment experiences for schools, institutions, students, and families.
- [Fiber](https://www.forte.net/industries/telecommunications/fiber): Support recurring billing and convenient payment experiences for fiber and broadband providers.
- [Healthcare](https://www.forte.net/industries/healthcare): Process patient, provider, payer, reimbursement, and revenue-cycle payments.
- [Insurance](https://www.forte.net/industries/insurance): Support premium collection, claims payouts, reimbursements, recurring payments, and policyholder payment journeys.
- [Nonprofits](https://www.forte.net/industries/nonprofit/): Support donation and recurring-payment experiences for nonprofit organizations.
- [Property management](https://www.forte.net/industries/property-management): Support digital rent collection, tenant payments, refunds, and property-payment operations.
- [Telecommunications](https://www.forte.net/industries/telecommunications): Support telecom billing, omnichannel payment acceptance, and payment-event integration.
- [Tolling](https://www.forte.net/industries/tolling): Support payment collection and revenue flows for tolling and mobility organizations.
- [Utilities](https://www.forte.net/industries/utilities): Support bill payment, self-service, IVR, text-to-pay, recurring billing, reconciliation, and recovery.

## Accept payments

- [Embedded payments](https://www.forte.net/payment-solutions/embedded-payments): Embed payment acceptance into software and monetize payment flows through configurable partnership models.
- [Omnichannel payments](https://www.forte.net/payment-solutions/omnichannel): Accept payments online, in person, by phone, through mobile, and through text or email links with a unified approach.
- [ACH processing](https://www.forte.net/payment-solutions/ach-processing): Process ACH payments and support recurring or scheduled payment workflows.
- [Credit and debit payments](https://www.forte.net/payment-solutions/credit-debit-payments): Accept credit and debit card payments across supported channels.
- [IVR payments](https://www.forte.net/payment-solutions/ivr-payments): Accept secure phone payments through interactive voice response.
- [Point-of-sale payments](https://www.forte.net/payment-solutions/point-of-sale-payments): Support card-present and in-person payment experiences.
- [Payment links](https://www.forte.net/payment-solutions/payment-links): Create payment links for digital payment requests and faster collections.
- [Text-to-pay](https://www.forte.net/payment-solutions/text-to-pay): Send payment requests and reminders through mobile messaging.
- [Straight-through processing](https://www.forte.net/payment-solutions/straight-through-processing): Support streamlined insurance payment and reimbursement workflows.

## Manage payments

- [Bill payment solutions](https://www.forte.net/manage-payments/billing-solutions): Support online bill presentment, guest checkout, autopay, scheduled payments, and multichannel delivery.
- [Payment operations](https://www.forte.net/manage-payments/operations): Use CSG Dex to view transactions, manage lifecycle actions, handle disputes, control access, and support reconciliation.
- [Payment gateway orchestration](https://www.forte.net/manage-payments/gateway-orchestration): Connect processors and banking partners through a single orchestration layer.
- [Payout services](https://www.forte.net/manage-payments/payout-services): Automate vendor, partner, employee, customer, insurance, and other outbound payments.
- [Merchant payment acquiring](https://www.forte.net/manage-payments/merchant-acquiring): Support merchant acquiring and payment-processing workflows.

## Protect payments

- [Protect payments](https://www.forte.net/protect-payments): Overview of payment risk management, fraud protection, validation, authentication, tokenization, account updating, and recovery.
- [Payment fraud detection](https://www.forte.net/protect-payments/fraud-detection): Monitor transactions for suspicious activity and support risk-based review.
- [Payment verification](https://www.forte.net/protect-payments/verification): Overview of account verification services.
- [Account authentication](https://www.forte.net/protect-payments/verification/authentication): Verify account ownership and help reduce unauthorized or failed payments.
- [Account validation](https://www.forte.net/protect-payments/verification/validation): Validate bank-account details before payment submission.
- [Account updater](https://www.forte.net/protect-payments/account-updater): Keep stored payment-card information current for recurring billing.
- [Check recovery](https://www.forte.net/protect-payments/check-recovery): Recover eligible failed ACH payments through automated re-presentment workflows.
- [PCI compliance](https://www.forte.net/protect-payments/pci-compliance): Overview of PCI DSS considerations and Forte compliance-support resources.

## Integrate and embed payments

- [Embedded payments](https://www.forte.net/payment-solutions/embedded-payments): Build payment acceptance into an existing software product or customer workflow.
- [Omnichannel payments](https://www.forte.net/payment-solutions/omnichannel): Connect online, mobile, in-person, phone, and messaging payment experiences.
- [Payment gateway orchestration](https://www.forte.net/manage-payments/gateway-orchestration): Add processor and banking flexibility without maintaining separate point-to-point integrations.
- [Payment operations](https://www.forte.net/manage-payments/operations): Centralize payment visibility, controls, reporting, and reconciliation.

## Developer resources

- [Developer & Partner Documentation](https://developers.forte.net/): Developer integrations, REST services, checkout, Forte.js, mobile SDKs, digital wallets, Bill Pay, bank verification, IVR, devices, and P2PE.
- [REST API Introduction](https://developers.forte.net/introduction-rest-api/): REST API capabilities, authentication, credentials, tokenization, transactions, customer and payment data, sandbox, live endpoints, and webhooks.
- [Forte Checkout v2 Auth](https://developers.forte.net/forte-checkout-v2-auth): Hosted and embedded checkout, reduced PCI scope, wallet storage, recurring schedules, payment methods, signatures, and callbacks.
- [Forte.js](https://developers.forte.net/forte-js): Client-side card and eCheck tokenization that keeps sensitive payment data off merchant servers and returns single-use tokens.
- [Bank Account Verification](https://developers.forte.net/bank-account-verification): Validate, Validate+, and Authenticate services for account validity, status, and ownership verification, including sandbox response testing.
- [IVR Payments](https://developers.forte.net/ivr): 24/7 automated phone payments supporting credit cards, eChecks, bill lookup, account verification, reporting, and external API integrations.
- [Dex Platform](https://developers.forte.net/getting-started-merchants/): Payments application allowing businesses to view, create, and manage transaction data, maintain merchant accounts, and generate API credentials.