Embedded Payments Infrastructure

Your brand.
Your margin.
Our rails.

White-label payment infrastructure for vertical SaaS platforms and the PE-backed companies that build them. API-connected, fully branded, interchange-plus pricing. You keep 100% above the buyrate. Powered by Penumbra.

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Your Platform
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White-Label 100% Above Buyrate API-Connected
12ms
Decision Latency
200+
Merchant Verticals
24 hrs
Avg Approval
US + CA
Coverage
Who We Serve

Built for the platform. Not just the merchant.

Transparent Pricing

Keep 100% above your buyrate.

Most processors hide the margin. We show it. Your rate minus interchange and our cost equals your margin. That's yours, every transaction, every month.

Traditional Processor
Flat rate. Their margin.
Your rate to merchant 2.9% + $0.30
What processor keeps 1.5%+ undisclosed
What you keep $0
Your take on $500K/mo $0
0030 Model
Interchange-plus. Your margin.
Interchange (network cost) Varies by card type
0030 cost (your buyrate) Negotiated per program
Your markup above buyrate 100% yours
Typical take on $500K/mo $7,500 – $15,000

Actual margins vary by vertical, card mix, and volume. We show you the math before you sign anything. No surprises.

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White-Label Infrastructure

Your customers never see us.

Board merchants under your own brand. White-label checkout, merchant portal, reporting dashboard, and residual statements, all under your UI, your colors, your domain. Your merchants think you are the processor. We are the infrastructure underneath.

  • Full white-label merchant portal and checkout
  • Branded reporting and residual statements
  • Sub-ISO and revenue-share program structures available
  • 200+ supported merchant verticals
  • API-first: connect to your existing SaaS stack
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Transaction Flow
Merchant
Pays
Your Brand
Your Platform
Routing
Penumbra
Processing
0030 Rails
Settlement
Funds

Your brand end-to-end. Our infrastructure underneath.

Processor Routing Logic
Transaction Initiated
Penumbra
Evaluates cost, approval probability, processor health
Primary
Processor A
Active
Failover
Processor B
Standby
Backup
Processor C
Standby
Always-On Processing

Payments that don't stop.

Every transaction runs through Penumbra's routing engine, which evaluates cost, approval probability, and processor health in real time. If a processor goes down or approval rates degrade, traffic shifts automatically. Your merchants never see it.

This is also how you benchmark. Run 0030 as a failover processor alongside your existing stack. See the approval rates, the costs, and the routing quality on your own traffic before you commit volume.

  • Active failover across 12+ processor connections
  • Automatic reroute on degraded performance, not just downtime
  • Use as failover or primary; structure is yours to decide
  • 99.99% uptime SLA
Powered by Penumbra

The intelligence layer that runs everything.

Penumbra is Arrowhead's proprietary intelligence platform. Specialized services handle routing, underwriting, fraud detection, and compliance in real time. Every 0030 transaction runs through it.

Routing

12ms Routing Decisions

Every transaction analyzed and routed to the optimal processor for cost, approval probability, and network health. Simultaneously. On every single transaction.

Underwriting

Continuous Risk Scoring

MCC analysis, volume pattern recognition, card-not-present ratios, and behavioral signals scored at boarding and monitored continuously throughout the merchant lifecycle.

Fraud

Continuous Fraud Intelligence

Fraud patterns don't wait for batch updates. Penumbra monitors transaction behavior in real time and adapts without human intervention or system downtime.

12ms
Decision Latency
40+
Decision Services
12+
Patents Pending
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Included with 0030

Your team, trained on the industry.

Payments rewards the people who actually understand it. Every 0030 partner gets access to structured, certificate-track training through our education partner, Echelon Institute. From how money really moves to running an ISO and closing in the field.

  • Embedded Payments 101: the fundamentals, end to end
  • ISO Management: build and run your residual book
  • Field Sales Mastery: prospect, pitch, and close
  • Building Your Network: grow from solo agent to agency
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Echelon Institute
Certificate of Completion
This certifies completion of
Embedded Payments 101
Signed
Dylan Lacoste
CEO, Arrowhead Advisory Group
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Public credential

Echelon certifications are proprietary and not accredited by any federal or state authority.

Verticals

200+ verticals. One platform.

Industries that have been underserved by legacy processors are standard coverage here.

Insurance Healthcare Legal Services Property Management Auto Dealers Restaurants Home Services Construction eCommerce Self-Storage Fitness Nonprofit Government Education Professional Services Manufacturing Retail Travel & Ticketing Wholesale & Distribution Staffing
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See what your platform could be keeping.

One conversation. We'll pull your current processing data, show you where the margin is going, and walk through what 0030 looks like in your stack. No commitment required.