Embed payments & earn more with payment facilitation-as-a-service
Super charge your revenue by embedding payments into your platform with a turnkey, compliant infrastructure with CSG’s Payment Facilitation-as-a-Service (PFaaS) .
Fast track your revenue by becoming an integrated software vendor
Bring embedded payments to market faster. With PFaaS, you capture new recurring revenue in weeks, while CSG Payments handles the complex parts of compliance, underwriting, and settlement.
Take the shortcut to smarter, more scalable payments
PFaaS enables Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to transform payments into a strategic advantage for their SaaS platform.
Earn more than just a referral fee with payment facilitation-as-a-service
Our flexible revenue models allow you to customize your pricing strategy and maximize your earnings from payments.
Buy rates: Get granular and markup the payment processing services you sell to your customers.
Revenue share: Simplify your strategy by earning a percentage of payment sales and ongoing fees
Hybrid: Use both models to serve different customers and earn more from value-added services.
Greater ownership drives greater rewards: As you take on more responsibility across compliance, risk, and underwriting, you can earn even more.
Lift the liability you want to own — shift what you don’t
Your expertise and comfortability with owning compliance, Know Your Customer (KYC), and underwriting may vary drastically between each function.
Choose how much responsibility you want to take on, if any, and you’ll earn more revenue the more you manage internally verses CSG Payments doing it on your behalf as a PFaaS partner.
Earn more from every transaction
Deepen customer relationships and unlock new revenue streams with the suite of value-added services CSG Payments offers that you can charge for.
Payment validation: Help merchants improve transaction success rates with proactive verification of important ACH account details.
Fraud protection: Monitor transactions for suspicious activity before they impact business
Revenue recovery: Put more money back in your customer’s pocket with automated solutions to recoup failed payments.
Tokenization: Level up security and reduce friction by keeping sensitive data shielded and securely saved for returning shoppers.
Make payments part of your platform
Embed payments into your software with PFaaS to deliver a seamless, fully branded experience that builds trust & elevates every transaction.
Own sales process: Your sales team is one of your best assets. Have them close the deals with accounts they’ve nurtured.
Strengthen brand experience: Reinforce every touchpoint by integrating payments into your platform’s look, feel, and flow.
Enhance trust: Eliminate disjointed payment flows that look unfamiliar and end the customer journey early.
Ramp up quickly and streamline your payment workflows with PFaaS
Embedding payments into your platform delivers significant benefits by streamlining end-to-end workflows.
Turnkey compliant infrastructure: Using our payment rails, get merchants processing payments within weeks – not months.
Onboarding Support: Our team ensures you’re up and running confidently with a dedicated success manager by your side.
Integration: Automatically sync payment data into your systems to eliminate manual entry & improve operational efficiency.
Single source of truth: Gain full visibility & stronger reporting across all merchant transactions in a single system.
Ready to power your next stage of growth?
From referral and reseller to full payment facilitation, CSG Payments' partner program is designed to support your growth from where you are now to where you want to go.
Benefits of the CSG Payments Partner Program
Smooth partner onboarding
Battle tested with partners, our onboarding covers solutioning, legal, risk management, and testing—ensuring every box is checked before go-live.
A growth path
Start as a referral partner and get paid. Want more payments revenue? Become a payment facilitator or adopt it as a service—no infrastructure changes.
Payment & integration flexibility
Give clients omnichannel payments with minimal effort. Integrate via low-code or bespoke options on a single platform simplifies back-office work
Industries and businesses we serve
Our core competency is payments, so your yours doesn’t have to be too. Payment referral partnerships work for businesses of all types.
A payments partner rooted in experience
Proven Partnerships
For over a decade, CSG Payments has supported high-growth software companies with complex recurring payments. Hear what our payment facilitation partners say.
“The integration with CSG Forte’s tools created a seamless solution. Integrating with CSG Forte quantifiably saves time and creates a better customer experience. Our partnership with CSG Forte has powered our growth and success over the past 17 years.”
Recognized for excellence
Fintech Breakthrough Awards: Payment Enablement Platform of the Year, 2026
CSG Forte's Payment Enablement Platform of the Year award validates our leadership in delivering faster, more reliable payment solutions.
Forrester Included in for The Merchant Payment Providers Landscape, Q4 2025, 2025
CSG Forte's inclusion in Forrester's Merchant Payment Providers Landscape confirms our competitive position in the payments industry.
QKS Spark Matrix: Merchant Payment Provider, Q4, 2025
CSG Forte named Strong Contender for Merchant Payment Provider
2024 PayTech Award
Top Innovation in Payments
Juniper Future Digital Awards: Omnichannel Payments Platform
CSG Forte awarded Omnichannel Payments Platform at the 2024 Juniper Future Digital Awards
Juniper Future Digital Awards: Recurring Payment Platform of the Year
CSG Forte awarded Recurring Payment Innovation at the 2024 Juniper Future Digital Awards
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