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Difference Between Payment Aggregators and Payment Facilitators

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Depending on a size of a merchant’s business, the merchant might find it more profitable to operate through various types of intermediary entities. A small-size merchant might not even have a MID. In this case merchant funding will be performed by a payment aggregator – a business, which has a lot of small sub-merchants in its portfolio and uses a single merchant ID for all of them. If the intermediary entity, which funds the sub-merchants, uses different MID for each merchant, it is called a payment facilitator. One of the key differences between payment aggregators and payment facilitators is the size of sub-merchants they are servicing. As merchant’s processing amounts grow, it might face the legally imposed need to have its own MID, or even become an independent merchant.

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Another important type of an intermediary entity is a payment service provider or PSP. A PSP does not fund the merchants. Funding of sub-merchants of a PSP is, generally, done by the acquirer. Payment service providers help merchants get their merchant accounts, facilitate merchant underwriting and transaction processing.

Examples of PSPs include independent sales organizations; a POS software provider, servicing fitness centers or restaurants, can be an example of a payment facilitator; an accommodation and lodging service can serve as an example of a payment aggregator.

Read more about payment aggregators, payment facilitators, and payment service providers in the respective article on #Paylosophy.

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