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03
Jun2026

Kounta Review

Kounta is an Australian-born cloud-based POS platform built specifically for the hospitality industry. Founded in Sydney in 2012 by Nick Cloete, a former chef who grew frustrated with the inefficiencies he encountered both in restaurant kitchens and in the legacy POS software he worked with afterward, Kounta was built from the ground up to serve cafes, bars, restaurants, b...

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19
May2026

Inovio Payments Review

Inovio Payments occupies a focused and deliberate position in the payment processing landscape: a cloud-based, eCommerce-first payment gateway built specifically for merchants who need global scalability, high-risk industry acceptance, and intelligent authorization optimization. Headquartered in Woodland Hills, California, Inovio operates as a subsidiary of North American ...

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11
May2026

Reliant Processing Services Review

Reliant Processing Services is the registered ISO and MSP name under which Reliant Merchant Services, Inc. operates as a credit card processing and merchant services provider. Based in Orange County, California, at 1820 W Orangewood Ave, Suite 105, the company is a registered ISO and MSP of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., with processing infrastructure powered by First Data, now o...

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05
May2026

FortisPay Review

FortisPay is a payment technology company that has traveled a meaningful distance from its origins as a traditional merchant services provider. Founded in 1998 under the name Cambridge Payment Systems and headquartered in Novi, Michigan, the company rebranded as Fortis Payment Systems before settling on the FortisPay identity it operates under today. Under the leadership o...

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21
Apr2026

First American Payment Systems Review

First American Payment Systems is one of the longer-tenured names in American merchant services, founded in 1990 and headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. For more than three decades, the company built a sizable business providing credit card processing, POS systems, eCommerce tools, and ACH payment solutions to small and medium-sized businesses across the United States. In ...

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14
Apr2026

Exact Payments Review

Exact Payments has quietly carved out a specific and defensible niche in the crowded payment processing industry. Rather than competing head-to-head with generalist processors like Stripe or Square, the company has focused its energy on a narrower but increasingly valuable problem: helping SaaS businesses embed payments directly into their platforms without the costly, tim...

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