Maximize your margins as a registered payment facilitator
Make integrated payments core to your platform strategy with a payment facilitation partnership that enables a fast launch and granular control of user experience and pricing.
Monetize the experience you build with in-house payments
From sales and onboarding to regulatory responsibility, CSG lets you build, customize, and scale your registered payment facilitation program around your core strengths.
Easily scale as your business evolves
CSG Payments gives you a single infrastructure that grows with you—no rip-and-replace required.
Start simple with light control over the payment experience with a referral model or payment facilitation-as-a-service.
Reevaluate your payment strategy.
Transition to a fully registered payment facilitator as your expertise and revenue goals grow—without changing your core infrastructure.
Design payments that feel native to your platform
Create seamless, on-brand payment experiences with flexible APIs and developer tools.
Strengthen brand experience: Reinforce every touchpoint with custom details that represent your business.
Enhance trust: Eliminate disjointed payment flows that lead to cart abandonment by embedding payments.
Integrate workflows: Easily move payment data between your core systems and workflows.
Launch faster with expert support at every step
Get the tools and guidance you need to confidently own and operate payments.
Sales: Enhance your selling motion with education and enablement support
Underwriting: Define the acceptance criteria you want for your customers, with support from our risk experts.
Onboarding: Set timelines and streamline setup with configurable onboarding workflows.
Support: Use our comprehensive documentation as the foundation for delivering consistent, high-quality client support to your clients.
Compliance: You own the responsibility, but we help you stay compliant with PCI, Nacha, KYC, and risk monitoring controls.
Control your economics as you scale
Unlock greater revenue potential as a registered payment facilitator.
Mark up the buy rate: Benefit from volume discounts by processing at scale and setting your own margins.
Negotiate directly: Work with networks and acquirers to improve rates
Charge for premium features: Monetize everything from payouts and fraud management to shorter funding times.
Earn more from every transaction
Expand your offering and deepen customer value with built-in services.
Payment validation: Help merchants improve transaction success rates with proactive ACH verification.
Fraud protection: Monitor transactions for suspicious activity before they impact business.
Revenue recovery: Put more money back in your customer’s pocket with automatic payment recovery solutions.
Tokenization: Enhance security and reduce friction by keeping sensitive data shielded and securely saved for returning shoppers.
Card update service: Reduce failed payments by automatically refreshing outdated card details.
Ready to power your next stage of growth?
From referral and reseller to full payment facilitation, CSG Forte’s 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
Give your merchants consolidated tools to manage their business
Payment operations don’t have to be complex. From a single web tool, merchants can:
Reconcile payments across channels and payment types
Manage disputes, chargebacks, and refunds
Create or void transactions on demand
View payment status and trends to adjust strategies
Manage your merchant portfolio with ease
Streamline application management, pricing, and portfolio performance with Dex for ISVs. Track, engage, and nurture merchants throughout the sales process from one platform.
Create proposals, set pricing structures, and monitor applications in real time
View portfolio health, analyze commissions and identify trends in a centralized dashboard
Inform decisions and optimize your business strategy
Industries we serve
Our registered payment facilitation partner model supports ISVs & SaaS companies across a breadth of industries.
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.
"Often, we are the ones who end up having to educate partners on how the relationship works. That hasn’t happened with CSG Forte. Having the same person on our account from nearly the beginning of the relationship has made a huge impact."
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
Considering becoming a payment facilitator?
Talk with CSG Payments about how to take complete ownership of payments within your platform.
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