OLB Group Introduces a New Payment Facilitator (PayFac) Service for Small Businesses

Associated Press

04-03-2025

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / March 4, 2025 / OLB Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:OLB) ('OLB' or the 'Company'), a diversified Fintech eCommerce merchant services provider and Bitcoin mining enterprise, OLB Group announced today the launch of a new payment facilitator (PayFac) service for small businesses.
Ronny Yakov, CEO of OLB Group, said, 'We are excited to announce the launch of our innovative Payment Facilitator (PayFac) service designed specifically for small businesses. This cutting-edge solution revolutionizes the way small enterprises process payments, offering a host of benefits that will streamline operations and boost business growth.'
Key Benefits for Small Businesses
Rapid Onboarding and Instant Acceptance
OLB Group's PayFac service enables small businesses to start accepting payments immediately, with a streamlined onboarding process that can be completed in a matter of hours. This feature eliminates the traditional wait times of days or weeks associated with setting up a merchant account.
Simplified Compliance and Reduced Paperwork
By leveraging OLB Group's PayFac service, small businesses can significantly reduce their compliance burden. PayFac handles complex regulatory requirements, allowing entrepreneurs to focus on growing their business rather than navigating payment industry regulations.
Comprehensive Payment Options
The PayFac service supports a wide range of payment methods, including all major card networks, ACH, and even Electronic Bill Pay and RTP (Real Time Payment). This versatility ensures that small businesses can cater to diverse customer preferences, potentially increasing sales and improving customer satisfaction.
Enhanced Security and Fraud Prevention
Small businesses benefit from PayFac's integrated fraud prevention tools and chargeback management services. This robust security infrastructure protects both merchants and their customers, fostering trust and reducing financial risks.
Cost-Effective Solution
OLB Group's PayFac service offers a transparent, easy-to-understand fee structure, eliminating surprise charges and helping small businesses manage their budgets more effectively.
Empowering Small Business Growth
By providing access to enterprise-level payment processing capabilities, the PayFac service levels the playing field for small businesses. It enables merchants to compete effectively in the digital marketplace, expand their customer base, and focus on what they do best - running their business.
For more information about OLB Group's new Payment Facilitator service and how it can benefit your small business, please contact our sales team or visit our website. https://www.olb.com
Small convenience stores and bodegas can significantly benefit from the PayFac (Payment Facilitator) model in several ways:
Simplified Onboarding
The PayFac model streamlines the merchant application process, allowing small businesses to start accepting payments quickly. This means convenience stores and bodegas can begin processing electronic payments within hours, rather than waiting days or weeks for traditional merchant account approvals.
Reduced Complexity
PayFact handles underwriting, compliance, and risk management, reducing the burden on small businesses. This capability allows store owners to focus on their core business operations instead of worrying about complex payment processing regulations.
Integrated Services
PayFact often provides additional value-added services such as fraud prevention, chargeback management, and payment analytics. These productivity tools can help small stores better manage their finances and protect against potential losses.
Multiple Payment Methods
The PayFac model offers flexibility in accepting various payment methods, including credit cards, digital payments, and alternative payment options. This versatility is crucial for convenience stores and bodegas to cater to diverse customer preferences.
Enhanced Customer Experience
By simplifying the payment process, PayFact contributes to a smoother transaction experience for customers, leading to increased customer satisfaction and loyalty, which is vital for small neighborhood stores.
Lower Entry Barriers
The PayFac model makes it easier for small and micro-merchants, who might have been underserved by traditional payment systems, to access electronic payment processing which levels the playing field for smaller stores competing with larger retailers.
By leveraging these benefits, convenience stores and bodegas can improve their operations, enhance customer service, and potentially increase their revenue through more efficient payment processing.
The payment facilitator (PayFac) model offers several key benefits to small businesses and bodegas:
Quick onboarding: PayFac provides a streamlined, simplified onboarding process that can be completed in hours or days, allowing small businesses to start accepting payments almost immediately.
Reduced paperwork and compliance burden: As sub-merchants under a PayFac, small businesses face fewer compliance regulations and documentation requirements compared to traditional merchant accounts.
Lower risk:
PayFac assumes most of the financial risk, reducing the burden on small businesses.
PCI compliance handling:
PayFac manages PCI compliance, relieving small businesses of this complex responsibility1.
Improved cash flow:
PayFac often offers faster fund settlement, allowing small businesses to access their money more quickly.
Access to diverse payment methods:
PayFac enables small businesses to accept various payment types, including credit cards, digital wallets, and ACH transfers, improving customer satisfaction.
Enhanced fraud protection:
PayFac typically provides robust fraud detection and prevention measures, offering small businesses greater security.
Simplified support:
With a PayFac, small businesses have a single point of contact for payment-related issues, streamlining problem resolution.
PayFac benefits are particularly advantageous for small businesses and bodegas, as they reduce barriers to entry in accepting electronic payments, minimize operational complexities, and provide access to sophisticated payment technologies that might otherwise be out of reach.
Advantages of PayFac for OLB Group and its subsidiaries
For Bodega owners, the merchant services OLB Group offers to customers, the most beneficial products are the MOOLA Cloud brands, such as Black011.com and BlackWireless. Including recently announced the services for 3D Secure fraud preventing tools These services are particularly advantageous for digital downloads and eSIMs, which have often been associated with fraudulent transactions on digital product orders. MOOLA Cloud offers an innovative and proprietary solution for the unbanked and under-banked consumer sector serviced by bodegas and convenience stores in the region. With a scheduled market launch in the First Quarter of 2025, OLB Group will dramatically expand its merchant services offerings.
About OLB Group, Inc.
The OLB Group, Inc. is a diversified Fintech eCommerce merchant services provider and Bitcoin mining enterprise. The Company's eCommerce platform delivers cloud-based merchant services for a comprehensive digital commerce solution to merchants in all 50 states. In addition, through its ownership of the MOOLA Cloud and Black 011 platform, OLB Group can provide its services to an additional network of 31,600 convenient stores and bodegas in the United States. DMint, a wholly owned subsidiary of OLB Group, is engaged in the mining of Bitcoin in a facility in Tennessee utilizing sustainable hydroelectric and solar power.
Forward-Looking Statements
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By their nature, forward-looking statements address matters that are subject to risks and uncertainties. A variety of factors could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those expressed in or contemplated by the forward-looking statements, including the risk that the licensee understands and complies with various banking laws and regulations that may impact the licensee's ability to process transactions. For example, federal money laundering statutes and Bank Secrecy Act regulations discourage financial institutions from working with operators of certain industries - particularly industries with heightened cash reporting obligations and restrictions - as a result of which, banks may refuse to process certain payments and/or require onerous reporting obligations by payment processors to avoid compliance risk. These and other risk factors affecting the Company are discussed in detail in the Company's periodic filings with the SEC. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether because of the latest information, future events or otherwise, except to the extent required by applicable laws
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