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How Faster Payments Improve Cash Flow for SMB Owners
For small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), cash flow can make the difference between simply keeping the doors open and confidently investing in growth. Understanding how faster payments improve cash flow can help business owners identify opportunities to get paid more efficiently, reduce payment friction, and keep revenue moving. With the right payment technology, SMBs can…
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The Competitive Advantage of Offering Merchant Services Through Financial Institutions
Today’s merchants expect more from their financial partners than checking accounts and business loans. They need technology that helps them accept payments, manage transactions, understand their customers, and operate securely. Merchant services through financial institutions give banks and other financial institutions an opportunity to meet those needs while building stronger, more valuable relationships with their…
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How to Choose the Right POS System for Your Business: A Merchant’s Guide
A POS system does more than process payments. It helps businesses manage inventory, streamline operations, improve customer experiences, and drive growth. Learn how to choose the right POS system for your business to find a solution that supports your unique needs and goals. What POS Features Does Your Industry Actually Need? The first step in…
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How Financial Institutions Can Benefit From Fintech Solutions
Today’s small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) expect more from their financial institutions than traditional banking products. Beyond checking accounts and loans, business owners are looking for tools that help them streamline operations, improve cash flow, accept payments seamlessly, and make smarter business decisions. For financial institutions, this shift presents a major opportunity. By expanding beyond…
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Embedded Payments Pricing: What ISVs Should Actually Be Asking
Every payments provider will quote a rate. Almost none of them will explain, unprompted, how much of that rate is interchange fees versus their own markup. For a software vendor evaluating embedded payments, that gap matters more than it looks. The problem is not that pricing is complicated. It is that most of the complexity…
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How Integrated Payments Help SMBs Increase Revenue and Efficiency
If you’re wondering how integrated payments help SMBs, the answer goes far beyond simply accepting credit cards. Integrating payments into your website, mobile app, point-of-sale system, invoicing platform, and other business tools creates a seamless customer experience while reducing administrative work. For small and mid-sized businesses, the result is greater efficiency, stronger cash flow, and…
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The ROI of Customer Loyalty: How Rewards Boost Value
Winning a new customer is important, but keeping them coming back is where long-term growth happens. Understanding how rewards boost lifetime value can help businesses build stronger customer relationships while increasing revenue over time. A well-designed loyalty program encourages repeat purchases, strengthens brand loyalty, and creates more opportunities to engage customers throughout their buying journey.…
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AI Is Changing How ISVs Build. It’s Not Changing What Good Payments Looks Like.
A developer can now open an AI coding tool, ask it to add embedded payments to a software platform, and watch it provision a sandbox environment and write working integration code in minutes. That is not a hypothetical. It is happening today, and it is changing how a whole generation of ISVs get built. What’s…
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How a Customer Loyalty Program Turns First-Time Buyers into Repeat Customers
Attracting new customers is important, but turning those first-time buyers into repeat customers is what drives long-term business growth. Now, customers have more choices than ever, making loyalty harder to earn and easier to lose. That’s why a customer loyalty program has become one of the most effective tools for building lasting customer relationships. A…
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How Data Analytics Helps Banks Build Stronger Merchant Relationships
Banks that offer data analytics tools to merchant clients do more than process payments — they become strategic partners. Learn how business intelligence solutions strengthen commercial relationships.
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What ISVs Give Up Choosing Speed Over the Right Partner
ISVs that choose a payments partner based on integration speed alone risk paying for that decision at scale. The pricing structure, support model, merchant onboarding process, and revenue share economics are not resolved during the build phase. They surface over the following two years, often when something has already gone wrong. AI tools have made…
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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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How Fintech Partnerships Help FIs Serve SMB Clients Better
Small and mid-sized businesses are the backbone of local economies, and financial institutions have long played a vital role in supporting their growth. But as technology evolves and business expectations change, SMBs now expect their banking partners to offer more than traditional financial services. They want modern tools that help them manage payments, access data…
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Announcing the 2025 Super Duffy Award Winner: Mike Haina!
In the spirit of recognizing exceptional contributions and unwavering dedication, Celero Commerce is proud to announce Mike Haina, Vice President of Operations, as the 2025 Super Duffy Award recipient. As Celero’s most prestigious honor, the Super Duffy Award celebrates individuals who exemplify the legacy of Michael P. Duffy through servant leadership, operational excellence, and a…
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Announcing the Q4 2025 Duffy Award Winner: Andy Wiley!
Celero is proud to announce Andy Wiley, Vice President of Merchant Accounting, as the recipient of the Q4 2025 Duffy Award. This quarterly honor is the highest internal recognition at Celero, dedicated to team members who embody the leadership ideals of Michael P. Duffy. As we close out 2025, it is fitting to recognize a…
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Announcing the Q4 2025 Rising Star Award Winner: Eric Grier!
At Celero, we believe that some of the most vital leadership happens behind the scenes in the code, the infrastructure, and the quiet hours where systems are fortified for the day ahead. It is with great excitement that we announce Eric Grier, Senior DevOps Engineer, as the recipient of the Q4 2025 Rising Star Award…
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Celero Commerce Acquires Petroleum Processing Solutions: Strategic Expansion Positions Celero as a Leader in Fuel, Grocery, and Convenience Retail Processing
NASHVILLE, TN — March 17, 2026 — Celero Commerce (“Celero”), a financial technology company focused on optimized payment solutions for small to mid-sized businesses and strategic partners, today announced the acquisition of substantially all the assets of Petroleum Processing Solutions (“PPS”), a Massachusetts-based payments provider specializing in pay-at-the-pump and multi-lane retail solutions for independent fuel…
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Why White-Label Payment Solutions Are the Next Big Thing for Banks
As competition intensifies and digital expectations rise, banks are under increasing pressure to deliver more value to their commercial clients. Small and mid-sized businesses want more than a checking account and a line of credit. They want integrated tools that help them accept payments, manage cash flow, and grow efficiently. That’s why white-label payment solutions…
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- How Faster Payments Improve Cash Flow for SMB Owners
- The Competitive Advantage of Offering Merchant Services Through Financial Institutions
- How to Choose the Right POS System for Your Business: A Merchant’s Guide
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- Embedded Payments Pricing: What ISVs Should Actually Be Asking
