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When Is the Right Time to Become Your Own PayFac?
The idea of becoming a payment facilitator is appealing. More control over how merchants get onboarded. A bigger share of the economics. A seamless, white-labeled experience that makes payments feel like a native part of the product. For some ISVs, becoming a PayFac is the right move. For others, it’s not. At least not yet.…
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6 Things ISVs Get Wrong About Payments Marketing (And How to Fix Them)
Your payments feature is already built. Here is why it is still not winning you merchants. Most ISVs treat embedded payments like a checkbox. It is on the features page. It comes up in sales calls. And then it gets buried while the rest of the marketing does the heavy lifting. The problem: integrated payments…
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Announcing the Q1 2026 Rising Star Award Winner: Cassidy Wright
Congratulations to Cassidy Wright, Celero’s Q1 2026 Rising Star Award winner! Recognized for her contributions to the Compliance team and our company culture.
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Announcing the Q1 2026 Duffy Award Winner: Matthew Stanford
Congratulations to Matthew Stanford, our Q1 2026 Duffy Award winner! Learn how his leadership and financial strategy drive Celero’s success.
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Stripe Connect vs. Celero Fusion: What ISVs Are Actually Choosing Between
Stripe Connect and Celero Fusion are both embedded payments solutions for ISVs, but they are built on fundamentally different models. Stripe Connect is a self-serve developer infrastructure platform. Celero Fusion is a partnership-based program with dedicated onboarding, named support, and ISV-specific pricing. The right choice depends on whether you want to own the integration process…
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Why Building Software Doesn’t Make You a Software Company
By Tommy Avers, Vice President of ISV I recently joined a panel at SEAA where my brother, Ryan Thiede, Director of ISV Sales at Celero Commerce, and a few other payments leaders dug into one of the biggest shifts in our industry: how traditional ISOs and merchant acquirers evolve into software-enabled businesses. As Celero’s VP…
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Merchant Onboarding for ISVs: Faster Approvals and Frictionless Setup
Merchant onboarding is the end-to-end process of getting a merchant approved, configured, and processing live payments inside an ISV’s software platform. For integrated software vendors, the quality of that process directly affects merchant activation rates, payment revenue timelines, and long-term retention. Merchant onboarding tends to get pushed to the back of the list behind processing…
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Why Omnichannel Payment Processing Is Essential in 2026
The way customers shop and pay has changed dramatically over the past decade—and in 2026, those expectations are higher than ever. Today’s consumers move seamlessly between online stores, mobile apps, physical locations, and social platforms when making purchases. For small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), meeting customers wherever they are is no longer optional. It’s essential.…
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- When Is the Right Time to Become Your Own PayFac?
- 6 Things ISVs Get Wrong About Payments Marketing (And How to Fix Them)
- Announcing the Q1 2026 Rising Star Award Winner: Cassidy Wright
- Announcing the Q1 2026 Duffy Award Winner: Matthew Stanford
- Stripe Connect vs. Celero Fusion: What ISVs Are Actually Choosing Between
