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Rule Your World™ gives you the independence, choice, flexibility, and intelligence to run your business and accept payments on your terms through open payment orchestration.

Rule Your World™: Take Control of Payments Through Open Payment Orchestration

FreedomPay was front and center at NRF 2026, unveiling our Next Generation Payment Orchestration Platform defined by our Rule Your World™ brand message.

NRF 2026: Rule Your World™ with FreedomPay

The Worldline and FreedomPay strategic partnership turns payments into a competitive advantage for hotels across Europe and the UK, with a clear path to broader expansion.

Redefining hospitality payments with Worldline and FreedomPay

Micro-donations are a convenient way for people to donate to the causes that matter to them. For merchants using FreedomPay, they can easily use our Gateway to Giving™ digital donations program.

How to Enable Micro-Donations at Checkout

Seamlessly integrating FreedomPay’s secure payment gateway and Oracle’s Simphony POS, the Castles S1E4 PRO places complete control of orders, payments, and management tools into the palm of your team’s hands.

Castles S1E4 PRO

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New research reveals significant data on how internet outages, downstream processor issues and system failures affect commerce in the United Kingdom and France.

How Payment Outages Affect Europe: A France vs. UK Comparison

Payment links are secure, shareable URLs that let you collect payments outside of the typical checkout process. These links can be seamlessly shared over email or text, redirecting the recipient to a secure checkout page where they submit payment.

Payment Links – The Simplest Path to Payment Acceptance

Offline card processing, also known as store-and-forward, allows you to accept credit and debit card payments without an active internet connection.

Offline Card Processing: Keep Accepting Payments Through Network Failures

FreedomPay is a payment gateway and Next Level Commerce™ platform working with top businesses in the U.K.

FreedomPay – Payment Gateway Powering British Business

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The 6 critical questions to answer when evaluating your payment tech to ensure a seamless retail experience.

Upgrade Your Payment Tech: 6 Essential Questions Retailers Must Ask

Whether you’re just exploring surcharging or preparing a roll out, here you’ll find straightforward answers, practical guidance, and expert-backed insights to help you make smart decisions.

A Merchant's Guide to Surcharging

Exploring the effect of payment outages, how to quickly solve these outages and build payment resilience to future-proof your business.

How to Solve a Payment Outage and Build Payment Resilience

FreedomPay and Mastercard’s alliance creates an extended payment gateway offering unprecedented access to over 230 acquiring banks worldwide. Consider global commerce officially unlocked.

How Businesses Can Scale Globally with Mastercard and FreedomPay

This Android-based handheld device integrates FreedomPay’s secure payment gateway and Oracle’s Simphony POS, enabling seamless management of orders, kitchen operations, inventory, menus, delivery, loyalty, and payment, all from the palm of your hand.

FreedomPay and Castles' S1F4 PRO: A New Era in Food & Beverage Payment Solutions

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FreedomPay’s secure, advanced payment gateway offers Next Level restaurant payment solutions tailored for modern dining needs.

Secure & Seamless Payment Solutions for Restaurants | FreedomPay

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FreedomPay needed a brand identity that expressed our core ethos: a world-class technology company built by and for forward thinkers, fast movers, and next-level achievers. Enter the Maverick Archetype.

A Maverick's Journey: How FreedomPay Positions Its Brand for New Growth Around the Globe

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The future of commerce is here. It’s happening now. And it’s more connected, intelligent, and unified than ever before.

Stripe Sessions 2025: Unified Commerce Takes Center Stage

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An omnichannel retail strategy involves integrating all of your retail systems and platforms to create a fully connected shopping experience.

Boost Customer Satisfaction with a Winning Omnichannel Retail Strategy

To stay competitive, streamline operations and boost customer satisfaction, merchants need to implement a payment gateway built for omnichannel commerce. Here's how.

How Advanced Payment Gateways Drive Omnichannel Commerce Success

Integrating a payment gateway into your business connects existing systems (like a POS, e-commerce platform, and other third-party solutions) to a provider that securely orchestrates all transactions.

How to Integrate a Payment Gateway for Your Business

Payment orchestration is the process of consolidating payment service providers (PSPs), payment methods, and other payment technology services into one global platform. This unified approach streamlines transactions for businesses while optimizing backend processes like routing payments and generating real-time analytics.

What is Payment Orchestration? A Comprehensive Guide

By integrating with a solution that offers advanced payment security measures like PCI-Validated Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) shaped by a unified commerce strategy, businesses deliver an secure and well-connected customer experience.

How Payment Security and Unified Commerce Enhance Customer Experience

Learn why PCI-Validated Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) is essential for payment security, reducing PCI DSS scope, and protecting sensitive data.

Why PCI-Validated Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) Matters to Your Business

To stay resilient and competitive, retailers must look toward future-ready technology that unifies commerce and unlocks omnichannel readiness.

Retail Technology Resilience – Are You Ready for the 6G Consumer?

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FreedomPay’s presence at NRF 2025 was a demonstration of seamless integration and unmatched flexibility in payments. Attendees at the FreedomPay booth experienced cutting-edge payment technology built to revolutionize the retail industry.

NRF 2025 Highlights with FreedomPay

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For businesses aiming to adapt, grow, and stay ahead in a fast-changing marketplace, independent payment gateways provide unparalleled flexibility, resilience, and innovation that all-in-one solutions cannot deliver.

Why Our Independent Payment Gateway Outpaces All-in-One Solutions

Implementing a unified commerce strategy and integrated payments provides a seamless customer experience, optimizes operations, gives actionable data insights, improves security & compliance, and accelerates your business in an omnichannel environment.

Why You Should Invest in a Unified Commerce Strategy

There are many players in a payment transaction, with each of them providing essential services to keep the process moving. However, a payment gateway differs from a payment processor and a merchant acquirer, as they all serve entirely different functions.

Payment Gateway vs. Payment Processor

Now that Stripe is interoperable with FreedomPay’s third-party hardware, ISVs and POS systems, merchants can seamlessly unify their online and in-person payment channels.

Stripe Tour NYC: A Unified Commerce Deep Dive

FreedomPay’s is the world's largest independent payment gateway, offering advanced omnichannel capabilities and seamless integration. Here are 12 reasons why FreedomPay stands out in the payment ecosystem.

Top 12 Reasons To Work With The Best Payment Gateway

The plot here revolves around retailers embracing new and innovative payment tech to continuously improve the frictionless shopping experience and three stars are taking center stage: biometrics, in-store innovation and AI advancements.

Beyond Contactless: The Next Generation of Seamless Shopping Experiences is Coming to a Store Near You

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Integrated payments describe a merchant’s selling systems connected with their payment systems and unified on a single platform.

What Are Integrated Payments? Creating a Unified Payment Ecosystem

A unified commerce platform seamlessly connects back-end systems with customer facing channels. This platform thrives off integrations with software and hardware that function across the business. 

Explore The Benefits of a Unified Commerce Platform

Combining Stripe’s financial infrastructure with FreedomPay’s ecosystem means we can bring unified commerce to more large enterprises and help you build and maintain a competitive edge.

Stripe Terminal’s expanding ecosystem: new partnerships bring flexibility and innovation to unified commerce

By definition, unified commerce is the strategy that seamlessly connects back-end systems with customer facing channels.

What Is Unified Commerce? Defining The Next Level Solution In Payment Technology

FreedomPay Merchant Centered Acquiring™ (MCA) is the industry’s first independent referral advisory that takes the pain out of payments by changing the way merchants, ISVs and processors find each other and work together.

FreedomPay Raises the Bar in the Payments Industry by Raising Merchant Payment IQ with FreedomPay Merchant Centered Acquiring™

FreedomPay Merchant Centered Acquiring™ (MCA) is the industry’s first independent referral advisory service. FreedomPay MCA supports a merchant's bottom-line focus by empowering them to cut costs and enhance their operational predictability and flexibility.

Know More, Spend Less: Take the Pain Out of Payments Processing with FreedomPay Merchant Centered Acquiring™ (MCA)

A customer-centric retailer adapts to changing expectations and prioritizes the needs of every consumer: secure, compliant transactions, a flexible, speedy, and streamlined shopping experience, and relevant loyalty incentives.

Revolutionizing Retail Success Through Tech Innovation

A payment gateway is a software program that sits between the merchant and their customer. It’s often described as ‘an electronic cash register for the virtual world.' Payment gateways offer a secure pathway that requests and manages transactions to transfer money between a customer and a merchant’s bank account.

What Is A Payment Gateway And Why Do I Need One?

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Together, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and FreedomPay’s technologies enable merchants to offer a seamless checkout process and a faster way to pay. Shoppers will be able to use their palm to pay with FreedomPay using Amazon One.

FreedomPay and Amazon Collaborate to Offer Merchants Seamless, Palm-Powered Checkout Experiences

Using our Business Intelligence (BI) platform, we can help merchants to understand what those trends are, for a variety of reasons; whether it's enablement of new functionality, or understanding consumer trends to offer an enhanced consumer experience.

Cedric Lourie, Vice President of Digital Development at FreedomPay outlines the value of data-driven insights in enhancing customer relationships in a new interview.

FreedomPay seeks out and partners with third party providers of the alternative technologies that interest the merchants who choose our Next Level Commerce™ platform. We empower merchants to optimize their customer journeys with our agnostic, one-stop solution.

Cedric Lourie: Streamlining Checkout Processes And Partner Relationships to Exceed Customer Demands

Are you looking for your next career move? Allan Moulds, SVP Human Resources at FreedomPay describes our approach to hiring and the company culture in this short Q and A session.

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