Card processing & card issuing

Money comes in. Money goes out.
You get a piece of both.

Most businesses treat card fees as a cost of doing business and payroll as money that simply leaves. Both are revenue you're handing to someone else. We turn each of them into a line item that pays you back.

1% back on the card volume you process. 1% back on gross spend from the cards you issue. Run one or run both — they don't take from each other.

Specimen
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Cardholder
Your Name Here
Debit

Sample card for illustration. Your brand, your program — physical or virtual.

Two levers

They stack. One doesn't cannibalize the other.

Processing earns on the money your customers pay you. Issuing earns on the money you pay out. They're separate programs on separate rails — a business can run either one alone, or run both and collect on every dollar moving in each direction.

Money coming in

Processing

Card acceptance with dual pricing at the point of sale, so the cost of card acceptance is carried at checkout rather than absorbed by the business. Same terminals, same checkout, same customer experience.

1%of processed card volume,
returned to you
Money going out

Issuing

Your own branded cards — physical or virtual — for any money you pay out. Payroll, contractor and vendor payments, expense, payouts, and cash-to-card. One program, whatever you need it to do.

1%of gross spend on the cards
you issue, returned to you
Processing

Dual pricing, done the way the rules require.

Dual pricing means the card price and the cash price are both posted, and the customer chooses. Done correctly it is a disclosure practice, not a hidden fee — and the difference between the two is where the economics of the program live.

01

The card price is the posted price

New York's surcharge rules require the total price for paying by card to be displayed clearly, with the cash price shown alongside it. Nothing is added at the register that wasn't on the shelf. Our program is built to that standard.

02

Your checkout doesn't change

Same equipment, same flow, same receipt. Signage and pricing displays are part of the rollout. Staff training is a briefing, not a project.

03

1% of volume comes back

A full point of the interchange on every card transaction is returned to you rather than kept upstream. On a business processing meaningful volume, that is a material line — see the calculator below.

Debit and prepaid are treated differently from credit. Surcharging rules don't apply the same way across card types, and a compliant program accounts for that at the terminal rather than in the fine print.

Issuing

Every dollar you pay out can pay you back.

When you issue your own cards, you earn on what's spent on them. It has nothing to do with processing — this is revenue on money leaving your business, which today earns you nothing at all.

Businesses issue them for:

Payroll Contractor & vendor payments Expense & purchasing Payouts and disbursements Cash-to-card
01

Your brand on the card

Physical or virtual, issued under your name. One program covers every use above — you don't run a separate scheme for each.

02

1% of gross spend comes back

Not 1% of what you load — 1% of what gets spent on the cards. Money you were already paying out becomes a recurring return.

03

Issued by a licensed bank

Cards are issued by a licensed issuing bank under a card network licence. Cardholder identity verification applies to reloadable programs, and the program is built to sit inside the compliance obligations you already carry.

New York · cash acceptance

Going cashless in New York now has a specific requirement.

As of March 2026, New York State requires retail establishments and food stores to accept cash for in-person transactions, and bars charging cash customers more than cashless ones. Penalties start at $1,000 and rise from there.

The statute contains one exception. A business does not have to accept cash if it provides an on-site device that converts cash to a card — with no fee, a minimum deposit of a dollar or less, a receipt available on request, and funds that don't expire or cap the number of transactions.

That exception describes a cash-to-card program. If your operation wants to run cashless in New York, this isn't a convenience feature — it's the mechanism the law points to. And because it runs on cards you issue, the same 1% applies to everything spent on them.

Summary only, not legal advice. Confirm applicability to your operation with counsel.

What it's worth

Put your own numbers in.

Drag the two inputs. Everything is calculated at 1% of the figures you enter — no assumed rates, no hidden multipliers.

Everything your customers pay you by card, per year.
$25,000,000
$0$500M
Payroll, vendor payments, payouts, cash-to-card — what gets spent on them.
$12,000,000
$0$250M
Processing — 1% of card volume$250,000
Issuing — 1% of gross card spend$120,000
Returned to you each year
$370,000

Illustrative only — not a quote, an offer, or a guarantee of results. Actual amounts depend on card mix, transaction type, volume and the terms of an executed agreement. Figures assume all volume entered is eligible.

How it works

What the first ninety days actually look like.

01

Review

We look at your current statements and card mix and put real numbers against both levers for your business — not the illustration above.

02

Underwriting

Standard review by the sponsoring institutions. Everything after this point is conditional on it, and we'd rather say so up front than discover it late.

03

Build

Equipment and pricing displays for processing. Card design, program parameters and cardholder onboarding for issuing. Per-location setup where you have more than one site.

04

Live, then paid

Once live, the rebate accrues on qualifying volume and is remitted on the schedule set out in your agreement.

Compliance & security

Built to survive a diligence review.

The businesses we work with have auditors, regulators and finance committees. The program is designed to be explained to all three.

Bank-backed infrastructure

Processing and issuing both run on established, bank-backed rails. Institutions involved are identified on request and named in the definitive agreements.

PCI DSS

Card data handling follows the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.

Identity verification and monitoring

Reloadable card programs carry customer identification requirements, and the program is structured to fit within the anti-money-laundering obligations of the businesses using it rather than around them.

Regulated industries

Where an operation sits under a state regulator, vendor review and registration are assumed to be part of the process and planned for from the start.

Next step

Bring a statement. We'll bring the numbers.

The fastest way to know what this is worth is a look at your current processing statement and an estimate of what you pay out each year. No obligation, no switching anything to find out.