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Merchant Underwriting That Scales With Your Platform

Every sub-merchant you onboard is a risk decision. Do it manually, or with a legacy processor's slow review queue, and you bottleneck growth. Merchant Focus's underwriting product automates the risk and compliance review so your platform can approve good merchants fast — without taking on risk you can't see.

What Our Underwriting Product Does

Automated risk scoring. Every applicant is evaluated against risk models tuned for your vertical, from low-risk recurring billing to higher-scrutiny categories.

KYB/KYC built in. Business and identity verification run automatically as part of the onboarding flow, not as a separate manual step.

Faster approval times. Reduce merchant time-to-first-transaction from days to minutes for the majority of applicants, with manual review reserved for genuine edge cases.

Compliance-ready. Underwriting decisions and documentation are structured to support your platform's audit and compliance obligations, including sector-specific requirements like BAAs for healthcare platforms.

Built for Platform-Scale Risk, Not One-Off Applications

Legacy underwriting was built for a bank approving a single merchant. Ours is built for a platform approving hundreds or thousands of sub-merchants across varied risk profiles — with the visibility to manage that risk as your platform grows.

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