Shape is a highly customizable payments platform designed for businesses that facilitate, power, or accept payments. It provides seamless onboarding, data collection, and transaction management, all configurable without code. Shape stands out with its automation, flexibility, and ability to modernize legacy platforms for acquirers, payment facilitators, and more.

What are the main features of Shape?

Customizable Payment Processing

Shape gives full control over how you collect, onboard, and manage payments, without assuming your business needs. The platform adapts to a wide variety of payment models, making it suitable for acquirers, payment gateways, and independent sales organizations.

• Configure payment processes through clicks, not code.
• Customize every step of the onboarding and transaction management lifecycle.
• Flexible modules tailored to specific business needs.

Full Automation for Acquirers

Shape enables acquirers to streamline and modernize their operations with automation, eliminating manual processes that slow down growth. This allows businesses to scale efficiently while maintaining compliance.

• Automates operational functionality for acquiring banks.
• Enhances regulatory compliance through process automation.
• Supports scalable growth with minimal manual intervention.

Unified Full-Stack Solution

Shape integrates data from gateways and acquiring platforms into a single source of truth, enabling full-stack acquirers to manage their merchants’ needs in one place.

• Centralizes gateway and acquiring transaction data.
• Manages the complete merchant lifecycle with a unified platform.
• Provides a holistic solution to simplify operations for merchants.

Simplified Referral Networks

Shape supports acquirers in managing referral networks by automating complex processes, allowing for a smoother and more efficient collaboration with ISOs and ISVs.

• Automates data collection and revenue share calculations for referral partners.
• Co-branded or custom branding options for referrer onboarding.
• Streamlines pre-submission due diligence with automated tools.

Shape’s modular, fully customizable platform is built to empower businesses of all sizes in the payments industry, providing the tools needed to modernize, scale, and streamline operations.