Money20/20 USA is around the corner, and Gr4vy’s founder and CEO, John Lunn, will be joining fellow payments industry experts and leaders on a panel, The Fintech View: Powered by Citi, to discuss the building of the payments infrastructure of tomorrow.

With digital adoption at an all-time high, payments infrastructure has never been more critical. How do you build a global network to solve the challenges that impact your customers’ businesses? The panel, made up of innovators in the payment infrastructure industry, will discuss everything from existing payment rails to the development of instant payment infrastructure, APIs and front-end client connectivity.

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With over two decades of experience working and investing in financial services, commerce enablement, e-payments, data, security and infrastructure, John will be bringing in his expertise around the future of infrastructure, and how cloud-native payment orchestration can enable merchants to future-proof their payment stacks.

Panel discussion details:

• Tuesday 25th October
• 11:00 – 11:45
• Expo Hall, Level 2

The future of technology is in the cloud. Merchants need a payment orchestration platform that works both today and wherever the future takes them. Partnering with an orchestration platform that locks merchants into a single provider with a single point-of-failure can be a recipe for disaster down the line. To take on digital transformation, merchants need to choose a platform that works now, will work with their infrastructure in the future, and functions wherever and however it’s deployed.

Gr4vy’s award-winning platform is the only cloud native, serverless infrastructure (IaaS) with the resilience, redundancy and performance you expect from a cloud company. Gr4vy’s infrastructure gives merchants the ability to expand and control their payment stack from anywhere through a single Universal API. The platform’s single-tenant cloud infrastructure also reduces points of failure to ensure that a merchant never loses a transaction, and can also spin up an Edge to any instance and deploy it where needed, regardless of location, to help merchants meet regional data privacy and protection regulations.

For an overview of Gr4vy’s platform, watch this short video, or explore the platform features and get in touch with a member of our team to learn more.

If you’re a merchant or a vendor interested in partnering with Gr4vy, and attending Money20/20 USA, get in touch to book a session with our team at the event.

Gr4vy, the cloud-native payments company, today announced a new strategic partnership with BitPay to empower its merchants to easily accept crypto payments through BitPay’s checkout offering. As part of Gr4vy’s no-code payment orchestration platform (POP), merchants can now implement and offer BitPay’s advanced crypto payment options without assuming added crypto risk, fear of chargebacks, fraud or high transaction fees while expanding into new global markets.

The global cryptocurrency market size was valued at $1.49 billion in 2020 alone, and is projected to reach $4.94 billion by 2030. A majority of merchants today already believe customers have a significant interest in digital currencies, and nearly 75% reported plans to accept stablecoin payments or cryptocurrency payments within the next two years. Consumers are increasingly interested in paying with digital currencies, showing merchants need to take note.

“Today’s consumers continue to demand alternative ways to pay. Merchants looking to stay competitive can no longer afford not to offer various payment methods, like crypto, or they will find customers opting for merchants who meet their payment needs. Merchants have also begun to consider their Web3 strategy, making the ability to offer and accept crypto payments more critical as they look toward the future,” said John Lunn, founder and CEO of Gr4vy. “We designed our cloud-native POP to make it fast and easy to implement new, innovative ways to pay. As a trusted global leader in blockchain payments, BitPay was the perfect partner for our platform based on over 11  years of blockchain payment expertise. We’re committed to helping merchants tap into the massive crypto market and take on crypto payments.”

As part of the partnership, merchants utilizing Gr4vy’s cloud-native POP can now instantly add BitPay to their payment stack with no code and begin to accept crypto payments through the BitPay checkout. Merchant’s customers gain access to pay using 15 different cryptocurrencies, as BitPay currently supports: ApeCoin (APE), Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Dogecoin (DOGE), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), Shiba Inu (SHIB), Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), XRP (in certain countries), 5 USD-pegged stablecoins (BUSD, DAI, GUSD, USDP, and USDC) and one Euro-backed stable coin EUROC. BitPay supports the most popular crypto wallets. Its app, browser extension, and card are compatible with wallets like Blockchain, Coinbase, Kraken, Metamask, BRD, and many more.

The addition of BitPay to Gr4vy’s platform allows merchants to accept payments and get settled the next business day, with a reach of over 220 countries globally to be settled in local fiat. Merchants never have to hold crypto and for the process, BitPay charges a flat 1% transaction fee.

“At BitPay, we are proud to be the world’s leading provider of bitcoin payment technology and see the future of payments on the blockchain. A lot of the other companies doing cryptocurrency payments out there don’t look at it from the perspective of the entire workflow of a payment, we do,” said Stephen Pair, co-founder and CEO of BitPay. “We chose to partner with Gr4vy because they share our same commitment to deliver best-in-class services when it comes to payments. Working with Gr4vy’s payment orchestration platform, makes it easy for merchants to add a crypto payment option.”

Gr4vy’s no-code payment orchestration layer makes it easier for merchants to deploy, manage, customize and optimize the right payment method for the specific user. The company gives merchants their own dedicated instances of Gr4vy in the Cloud, preventing shared infrastructure or server loads unlike other solutions on the market. Merchants can get multiple dedicated instances of Gr4vy to reduce points of failure and ensure they never lose a transaction. Gr4vy also includes everything merchants need for payment infrastructure, including connectors to leading payment service providers, a powerful workflow engine, front and backend payment orchestration, no-code admin tools, and a dashboard to control and manage everything within their payments stack.

Gr4vy can also spin up edges for a merchant’s instance and deploy it in any region or country, keeping merchant and customer data in the region or country it was deployed, helping merchants meet data privacy protection laws now prevalent in many countries. The outcome is a genuinely modern cloud-native POP that frees merchants to focus on their business and customers.

For an overview of Gr4vy’s platform, watch this short video, or explore the platform features and get in touch with a member of our team to learn more.

About BitPay

Founded in 2011, BitPay pioneered blockchain payment processing with the mission of transforming how businesses and people send, receive, and store money. Its business solutions eliminate transaction fraud, reduce the cost of payment processing, and enable borderless payments in cryptocurrency, among other services. BitPay offers consumers a complete digital asset management solution that includes the BitPay Wallet and BitPay Prepaid Card, enabling them to turn digital assets into dollars for spending at tens of thousands of businesses. The company has offices in North America, Europe, and South America and has raised more than $70 million in funding from leading investment firms including Founders Fund, Index Ventures, Virgin Group, and Aquiline Technology Growth. For more information visit bitpay.com.

The BitPay Card is issued by Metropolitan Commercial Bank (Member FDIC) pursuant to a license from Mastercard International Incorporated. “Metropolitan Commercial Bank” and “Metropolitan” are registered trademarks of Metropolitan Commercial Bank ©2014. Use of the Card is subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable Cardholder Agreement and fee schedule, if any.

Gr4vy’s cloud-native payment orchestration platform has been awarded ‘Top Emerging Fintech Company’ at this year’s Finovate Awards, by Informa Connect. The awards recognize excellence across the fintech industry, and the ‘Top Emerging Fintech Company’ category recognizes the fintech startup that is most likely to become the next fintech unicorn.

Gr4vy was selected for its benefits and features that make its platform unique and give merchants more flexibility when it comes to payment optimization and management. Gr4vy is the only cloud native, serverless infrastructure (IaaS)  with the resilience, redundancy and performance you expect from a cloud company.

Gr4vy’s infrastructure gives merchants the ability to expand and control their payment stack from anywhere through a single Universal API. The platform’s single-tenant cloud infrastructure also reduces points of failure to ensure that a merchant never loses a transaction, and can also spin up an Edge to any instance and deploy it where needed, regardless of location, to help merchants meet regional data privacy and protection regulations.

Designed with advanced capabilities and benefits, Gr4vy’s service agnostic and universal capabilities across PCI-level 1 payment credential vaulting, 3D Secure, tokenization, Apple Pay, Google Pay and more ensures that merchants always have the flexibility they need across their payments stack.

Unlike other POPs, Gr4vy makes it easy to move between service providers seamlessly with just a few clicks. And Gr4vy’s no-code infrastructure enables merchants to orchestrate payments and risk management services across multiple providers — making it easy to deploy, test and learn what services work best for their business and scale.

For an overview of Gr4vy’s platform, watch this short video, or explore the platform features and get in touch with a member of our team to learn more.

Gr4vy’s cloud-native payment orchestration platform has been awarded ‘Best Cloud Payments Solution’ at this year’s PayTech Awards. Now in its fifth year, Fintech Futures’ PayTech Awards recognizes excellence and innovation in the use of IT in the finance and payment industry worldwide, and winners are selected by a panel of judges from across the industry.

Gr4vy was selected for its role in helping merchants to overcome the challenges that come with international expansion and the need to build an increasingly complex payment infrastructure. Merchants of all sizes responding to the explosive growth of various payment methods and processors has led to technical debt, inflexibility, regulatory difficulty, and ultimately limits a merchant’s ability to serve customers as they scale.

Find out how Gr4vy supports streaming service, ELEVEN Sports, with international growth here

Gr4vy’s infrastructure gives merchants the ability to expand and control their payment stack from anywhere through a single Universal API. The platform’s single-tenant cloud infrastructure also reduces points of failure to ensure that a merchant never loses a transaction, and can also spin up an Edge to any instance and deploy it where needed, regardless of location, to help merchants meet regional data privacy and protection regulations.

Designed with advanced capabilities and benefits, Gr4vy’s service agnostic and universal capabilities across PCI-level 1 payment credential vaulting, 3D Secure, tokenization, Apple Pay, Google Pay and more ensures that merchants always have the flexibility they need across their payments stack.

Unlike other POPs, Gr4vy makes it easy to move between service providers seamlessly with just a few clicks. And Gr4vy’s no-code infrastructure enables merchants to orchestrate payments and risk management services across multiple providers — making it easy to deploy, test and learn what services work best for their business and scale.

For an overview of Gr4vy’s platform, watch this short video, or explore the platform features and get in touch with a member of our team to learn more.

To discover more about Gr4vy’s background and why a cloud-first platform is important to consider, watch the fireside chat between Gr4vy Founder and CEO, John Lunn, and retail industry expert and founder of The Consumer First Group, Martin Newman.

Gr4vy is a proud sponsor of eTail 2022. Come say hello at our booth and meet Jolie McMillian and Andre Jukhoop from the Gr4vy team.

About eTail Boston:
eTail is a three-day conference designed to help you increase the profits from your business.

You’ll get action-packed stories, disruptive strategies, strategic conversations, and connections with top minds at America’s most successful retailers. No commercials. No egos. We cut out the fluff to give you hundreds of strategic takeaways.

When:
August 8-10, 2022
8:00 am – 7:00 pm

Where:
The Sheraton Hotel
39 Dalton Street Boston, MA 02199
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Why Attend:
eTail is where the top minds in retail meet, collaborate and learn about what’s disrupting the industry today and what’ll change tomorrow. Designed to build your business and your profit, eTail can cut out the fluff and provide you with content from retail innovators in the trenches.

Event:
Here is the agenda for the day. Jolie and Andre will be at the Gr4vy booth.

Speakers:
There are a wide variety of experts speaking at this years eTail Conference. Hear from the Chief Digital, Analytics & Technology Officer of BestBuy and the EVP, Chief Digital & Technology Officer of Abercrombie & Fitch Co. View the full list here.

About Gr4vy:
Gr4vy is a cloud-native payments infrastructure platform that is reimagining payment orchestration. Our single-tenant cloud infrastructure reduces points of failure ensuring that merchants never lose a transaction. We give each merchant at least one instance of Gr4vy so they don’t share infrastructure or server loads with other clients.

Our service agnostic capabilities across PCI-level 1 vaulting, 3D Secure, tokenization, Apple Pay, Google Pay and more ensures merchants have flexibility across their payments stack.

Our no-code environment enables merchants to orchestrate payments and risk management services across multiple providers — making it easy to deploy, test and learn what services work best for them.

Our usage-based pricing ensures merchants only pay for infrastructure they use (no transaction based pricing), enabling a flexible and scalable solution.

At Gr4vy, our goal is to take the complexity out of running payments infrastructure, and our vision is to become your payments team in the cloud.

Gr4vy is a proud sponsor of Meet Magento UK. Come say hello at our booth (#12) and meet Elaine Robin from the Gr4vy team.

About Meet Magento UK:
Meet Magento UK is the UK’s largest community-hosted event for merchants, developers and technology partners who work with the Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source platforms.

From deep-dives on new technology, to inspiring real-world business success stories and insight, attendees come away full of new ideas on how to take their business to the next level.

When:
21/06/2022
9:00 – 18:30

Where:
The Mermaid
Puddle Dock
London
EC4V 3DB
United Kingdom
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About Gr4vy:
Gr4vy is a cloud-native payments company offering merchants who utilize Adobe Commerce, powered by Magento, a modern payment infrastructure.  The Gr4vy Magento Extension offers merchants advanced payment optionality with minimal effort with immediate access to Gr4vy’s cloud-native payment orchestration platform (POP).  Gr4vy’s cloud-native POP allows merchants to easily add new payment methods, connectors and build custom payment workflows that enhance a customers’ checkout experience… all without leaving their Magento dashboard.

Swing by booth #12 and we will be happy to show you how easy and powerful our payments platform is.  Grab a discounted event ticket, or checkout this short demo.  Ready to get started, download the Gr4vy Magento Extension today.

Gr4vy has partnered with Boku and EBANX to quickly give merchants access to local payment methods in new geographies. These partnerships will fuel international growth and revenue while reducing risk, resource burden and the overall total cost of ownership.

Merchants can now access billions of emerging market consumers across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Importantly, this comes at a time when the transaction value of digital commerce in Latin America is projected to increase 73%, and payment revenue in APAC is forecasted to reach $935 billion by 2025.

“Until now, merchants have had to build individual integrations for each new local payment method they wish to support in each new market they enter. At Gr4vy, we wanted to make it easy for merchants to expand their payments strategy into new markets,” said John Lunn, Founder and CEO of Gr4vy. “Bringing these new partnerships to the Gr4vy platform means merchants can now easily offer localized payment methods and services in new geographies, without writing code or the need for large developer teams.”

Through its partnership with EBANX, a payments platform that works with large global brands such as Shein, Amazon, Shopee and Uber, Gr4vy merchants now have access to one of the biggest user bases in Latin America (estimated 100 million customers by end of 2022). EBANX and Gr4vy will enable merchants to increase revenue in the fast-growth region with an end-to-end local payment solution that meets local consumer payment preferences, including debit and credit cards, bank transfers, and digital wallets.

With Gr4vy’s Boku connector, merchants can access its M1ST Payments Network, consisting of 350+ local mobile payment methods, including popular app-based payments such as Alipay, WeChatPay, GrabPay, and ShopeePay as well as ubiquitous SIM-based payments that can place charges against any mobile phone bill in the world. Merchants will be able to access customers in over 91 countries across Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.

Gr4vy’s cloud-native infrastructure platform modernizes payment orchestration. The only payment orchestration platform (POP) built natively in the Cloud, Gr4vy’s platform empowers merchants to manage payment methods, services and transactions, while eliminating single points of failure and shared infrastructure risks. Gr4vy can also spin up an Edge to any instance and deploy it where needed, regardless of location, to help merchants meet regional data privacy and protection regulations.

For more information about the benefits of Gr4vy, check out the platform, or get in touch with our team.

Interested in joining the Gr4vy team? Check out our current vacancies.

ELEVEN, a global sports streaming provider, has chosen Gr4vy’s cloud-native payment orchestration platform (POP) to quickly implement customers’ locally preferred payment methods worldwide on its global OTT platform ElevenSports.com. ELEVEN selected Gr4vy for the platform’s advanced features and benefits, and its ability to provide quick access to multiple payment methods and providers with no additional coding required.

“Implementing new payment methods can be both costly and time consuming. From local payment methods to spinning up and down payment options, choice at checkout is key for customers,” said John Lunn, founder and CEO of Gr4vy. “ELEVEN delivers the best live coverage of the world’s biggest sporting events to local sport for under-served communities of fans. They offer online sports streaming like no one else. We’re honored to work with such a trusted name, while providing a cloud-native platform with payment optionality to support ELEVEN’s current growth and inevitable accelerated future expansion into new geographies.”

Check out the full ELEVEN case study here.

ELEVEN offers users around the world access to online streaming. The 24/7 service generates tens of millions of views per month from users from over 200 countries and territories, through a range of packages from free to periodic subscriptions.

Gr4vy’s cloud payments team carefully consulted on the payment method and features required to help ELEVEN to scale by adopting PayPal as a payment platform. Through PayPal – implemented through the Gr4vy platform – ELEVEN is now able to have recurring merchant-initiated transactions without the need to involve the consumer. This has allowed the company to achieve new user acquisition and global country coverage, without hiring or reassigning software developers.

“The team at Gr4vy is truly an extension of our internal product team. It takes a lot of development effort to get a new payment method live. We needed a provider with full coverage as we continue to grow internationally,” said Nick Aliwell, Director of Product of ELEVEN. “Gr4vy’s payment expertise, deep industry knowledge and POP allow us to move quickly and test different payment methods in each market in just a few clicks. All our self-built services run in the Cloud, so being able to run Gr4vy in the same region as our services is powerful.”

This announcement comes as streaming services have tapped into POPs to scale quickly in response to increasing consumer demand for over-the-top (OTT) streaming services. The online sports live video streaming market is projected to reach $87.3 million by 2028, pointing to increased opportunities for businesses to meet customer demand. Consumers, however, require a comprehensive experience from choice to checkout to complete the entire sales funnel. For businesses, that means payment optionality.

Gr4vy’s POP leverages the power of the cloud to give users the capability to streamline and manage payment methods, services, and transactions all in one place. Its orchestration layer upgrades a company’s payment stacks to make infrastructure nimbler. While its intuitive, no-code dashboard centralizes the integration and administration of payment methods, providers, conditions, and transactions. With Gr4vy, streaming services never have to lose a transaction again.

To find out more about the ELEVEN and Gr4vy partnership, read the full case study here. For more information about the benefits of Gr4vy, check out the platform, or get in touch with our team.

Interested in joining the Gr4vy team? Check out our current vacancies.

Gr4vy has announced the launch of its new, verified Gr4vy Magento extension. Merchants utilizing Adobe Commerce, powered by Magento, can now install the extension with little to no implementation time and gain immediate access to Gr4vy’s cloud-native payment orchestration platform (POP). Gr4vy’s Magento extension and platform represent a sea change in payment orchestration, allowing merchants to easily add new payment methods and providers and build custom payment workflows that enhance customers’ checkout experience – all from within Magento.

Gr4vy’s extension comes at a time when Magento handles over $155 billion in transactions every year and helps businesses create dynamic shopping experiences. The Magento platform offers basic default payment methods and acceptance of payments through several third-party services. Merchants who want to offer new payment types and methods, such as Buy Now Pay Later and Open Banking, must build separate integrations for each new payment type – adding time and cost. Gr4vy’s state-of-the-art Magento extension solves this pain point by allowing merchants to offer multiple payment options and providers through a single Gr4vy Magento extension.

“We wanted to create an extension of our cloud-native POP for Magento to help merchants make their payment stacks more nimble and versatile,” said John Lunn, CEO and Founder of Gr4vy. “Our cutting-edge POP is designed to help merchants easily deploy new payment methods and optimize payments acceptance while reducing security burdens, all without the need for coding. With more than 250,000 merchants worldwide using Magento, the platform was the perfect place to launch an extension of Gr4vy’s platform. Even better, merchants never need to leave their Magento Commerce admin panel to use it.”

As with any other Magento extension, merchants wishing to install Gr4vy’s extension can do so in just a few steps. Once installed, merchants receive dedicated cloud Instances and can deploy Edges in geographies close to their customers. Moreover, they can also take advantage of Gr4vy’s no-code dashboard to easily control what payment options are shown to each unique user and determine how each transaction routes to different payment services based on a predefined set of rules and criteria. Merchants can also access the platform’s key features and benefits, including:

• An easy modern checkout that will automatically update their checkout page and reflect specific payment methods based on custom workflows without rewriting code.
• A universal, PCI1 Certified Gr4vy Vault that allows merchants to move fluidly across current and future payment service providers, storing and securing customer payment details.
• Customizable workflows that optimize transaction routing based on country, currency, time of day and reroute transactions due to downtime. Retailers can also design workflows to offer specific payment methods based on day of the week, time of day, or location.
• No-code admin controls that provide merchants with tools to manage all payment methods, providers, workflows and conditions.
• Centralized transaction reports that manage and consolidate transaction reports across all a merchant’s service providers.

In addition, Gr4vy has partnered with Akoova, Europe’s leading Magento hosting provider, to be the first to bring Gr4vy’s Magento extension to market. Gr4vy chose Akoova – known for its exceptional client experience – due to its deep knowledge and expertise of Magento, along with its proven track record at evolving their K-Hosting platform to ensure client scalability and stability. Just like Gr4vy’s payment orchestration infrastructure, Akoova’s K-Hosting has been developed with the needs of the most demanding merchants in mind.

As Akoova’s clients expand their international presence, selling either cross border or with localized sites, their payment infrastructure needs to be changed. These merchants need to add additional payment gateways, or more importantly, the payment methods their consumers demand in multiple countries. The addition of Gr4vy’s cloud-native POP allows merchants – like those of Akoova’s clients – to quickly add, remove and manage new payment options and gateways in a simple no-code interface. This accelerates international rollout exponentially, saving money and time. Given the wealth of knowledge in payments and Magento hosting by Gr4vy and Akoova respectively, the partnership sets both companies up for substantial market success. Both Gr4vy and Akoova share a like-minded passion for driving robust growth within the retail sector through game-changing innovation of mission-critical infrastructure.

For more information, please get in touch with our team or visit gr4vy.com/