Wayne Akey

Wayne Akey works collaboratively with SAAS providers whose clients have recurring billing needs to create innovative payment solutions and new revenue streams. He has partnered with dozens of software providers to create integrated payment solutions that solve recurring billing problems and generate significant recurring revenue. He has experience in: ACH Processing | Payment Partnerships | Payment Gateway Integration | Credit Card Decline Mitigation | Payment Aggregation. Wayne is the author of “Explode SAAS Revenue by 84%: A Guide to Geometric Growth using Integrated Payment Processing”. To learn how your software application can become a billing solution for your users as well as generate additional revenue streams, contact Wayne today at wakey@agilepayments.com. We guarantee you will learn how to improve revenue per client by at least 10% or we will donate $500 to the charity of your choice.

Instant Payout Providers

By Wayne Akey on Jul 5, 2022 10:21:59 AM

Instant Payout Providers Help You Build Your Business

Topics: Instant Payouts

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Instant Payout Solutions

By Wayne Akey on Jun 30, 2022 2:39:52 PM

Instant Payout Solutions

Topics: Instant Payouts

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2021 ACH Transaction Volume Shows Strong Growth

By Wayne Akey on Feb 4, 2022 3:05:23 PM

2021 ACH Transaction Volume

Topics: ACH API Integration

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PayFac as a Business Model

By Wayne Akey on Sep 7, 2021 3:52:20 PM

PayFac or Payment Facilitation enables software platforms to both brand and monetize payment processing offerings while at the same time offering instant, hassle-free customer payments onboarding.

Topics: Payment Facilitation

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Pay by Text Virtual Terminal for Credit Unions

By Wayne Akey on Feb 4, 2021 8:08:17 AM

Many banks and Credit Unions now offer drive through only service to their customers and members. This has created a spike in the number of in-bound phone calls for Credit Unions. For many this has resulted in a less than ideal member experience.

Topics: sms payments

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Using a Pay by Text Virtual Terminal for Medical Offices

By Wayne Akey on Feb 1, 2021 7:49:56 AM

A Pay by Text Virtual Terminal offers medical offices the ability to communicate with patients in a non face to face environment. 2-Way messaging means your office personnel can text patients and interact using their computer screen ( Virtual Terminal) like their cell phone.

Topics: sms payments

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SMS Virtual Terminal | Pay by Text Virtual Terminal

By Wayne Akey on Jan 19, 2021 12:19:42 PM

SMS stands for Short Messaging Service, and primarily involves texting by phone. SMS Payment Solutions allow businesses to:

Topics: sms payments

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Payment Reconciliation Done Right

By Wayne Akey on Dec 10, 2020 6:39:49 PM

Disrupting the ACH and Credit Card settlement and funding process via a Funding Report

Topics: White Papers ACH API Integration

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NACHA 2021 ACH Rule Change Mandates Checking Account Validation For Web Based Payments

By Wayne Akey on Jun 29, 2020 8:41:36 AM

What does the new NACHA ruling around WEB ACH transactions really mean and why has it been implemented?

Topics: Checking Account Owner Authentication

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Top 10 Things to Look For In An ACH API

By Wayne Akey on Jun 3, 2020 1:15:37 PM

An ACH API integration enables a business or SaaS platform to automate ACH
payment processing and reconciliation. Any business that accepts recurring payments should leverage the ACH network for 2 compelling reasons:

Topics: ACH API Integration

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An ACH API Case Study

By Wayne Akey on Mar 26, 2020 10:26:50 AM

ACH API Case Study:

Topics: ACH API Integration

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How Software Platforms Can Leverage Payment Facilitation As A Service To Gain Clients And Create New Revenue Streams

By Wayne Akey on Mar 16, 2020 8:51:18 AM

Topics: Payment Facilitation

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How does a Software Platform make money from Payment Facilitation As A Service?

By Wayne Akey on Jan 27, 2020 8:27:00 AM

For SaaS applications with payment needs, eg Rentlee, a landlord platform offering rent collection, Payment Facilitation as a Service allows the platform to act as a master merchant account. This allows landlords to be set up as sub-accounts and begin accepting rent payments instantly. In the past Rentlee would have had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and 6+ months to register with the card associations to act as a true Payment Facilitator.

Topics: hybrid payment facilitation

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What does a successful Credit Card Payment Integration look like?

By Wayne Akey on Jan 21, 2020 8:15:00 AM

What does a successful Credit Card Payment Integration look like?

Topics: Payment Processing

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Top 9 Things to look for from a Recurring Credit Card Integration API

By Wayne Akey on Jan 17, 2020 8:26:58 AM

Here are Top 9 Things to Look for from a Recurring Credit Card Payment Integration API

1-API availability: Does the partner offer a modern, elegant RESTful API

Topics: Payment Gateway

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How Strategic Credit Card Payment Integration Can Help Grow Platform Revenue and User Base

By Wayne Akey on Jan 14, 2020 1:53:40 PM

By integrating a Credit Card Payment Processing solution your application users gain the ability to accept credit and debit card payments from their end customer.

Topics: Agile Payments

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Pay By Text Solutions: Why Your Business Needs To Get On Board

By Wayne Akey on Jan 14, 2020 1:06:55 PM

Pay by Text payment solutions offer businesses a simple, cost effective method to securely collect customer payments.

Topics: IVR Payments

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PCI IVR Payment Solution

By Wayne Akey on Jan 13, 2020 10:15:56 AM

Topics: IVR Payments

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Best IVR Payment Systems

By Wayne Akey on Jan 13, 2020 10:15:05 AM

Best IVR Payment Systems: What to look for in your IVR Payment search

An IVR Payment Solution creates new customer option that allows customers to pay bills or invoices without involving business staff or resources. Customers dial into a phone and connect to an automated IVR system that interacts via voice prompts with the caller, allowing them to pay amounts due without human interaction from the business side.

Topics: IVR Payments

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IVR Transactions

By Wayne Akey on Jan 13, 2020 10:12:55 AM

IVR Transactions: Interactive Voice Response for Inbound Customer Payment Transactions

IVR Transactions occur when customers call into an IVR Payment Solution.

Topics: IVR Payments

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IVR Payment Software

By Wayne Akey on Jan 13, 2020 10:12:13 AM

IVR Payment Software: What are your options in your IVR Payment Solution search

IVR Payment Software Solutions offer payment options that allow clients to pay bills or invoices via self service. Customers dial into a phone and connect to an automated IVR system and interact via voice prompts, allowing customers them to pay amounts due without human interaction from the business side.

Topics: IVR Payments

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IVR Gateway

By Wayne Akey on Jan 13, 2020 10:10:54 AM

PCI Compliant IVR Payment Gateway Solutions – Interactive Voice Response for Phone Based Customer Payments

An IVR Gateway provides automated phone based payment acceptance solution for organizations.

Topics: IVR Payments

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IVR Tokenization : PCI Compliance for IVR Payments

By Wayne Akey on Jan 9, 2020 3:16:39 PM

PCI Compliant IVR Tokenization Solutions – Interactive Voice Response for Phone Based Customer Payments

Credit card data is required to be handled in a PCI compliant manner. IVR Tokenization is the process that securely exchanges full credit card number for a non-sensitive replacement value in an IVR Payment Solution.

Topics: IVR Payments

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IVR Billing

By Wayne Akey on Jan 9, 2020 3:09:46 PM

IVR Billing - 24/7/365 Automated Customer Payment Center

Topics: IVR Payments

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IVR Phone Payment

By Wayne Akey on Jan 9, 2020 3:08:36 PM

IVR Phone Payments- 24/7/365 Automated Customer Payment Center

Topics: IVR Payments

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