Cobaltpay
Payment infrastructure

Move money like a modern platform.

Onboard merchants, accept payments and settle payouts on one platform. Transparent per-transaction pricing, no monthly minimums — and money in the bank by T+1.

PCI DSS Level 1 · SCA-ready · 135+ currencies · T+1 payouts

+€1,261.83 payout
3-D Secure ✓
Payment · #CHG_8F2ASettled
€1,280.00

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Gross€1,280.00
Fee−€18.17
Net to merchant€1,261.83
SettlementT+1 · arrives tomorrow
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Trusted by platforms moving over $4B a year across 40+ countries

By the numbers

Numbers our platforms run on

$4.2B
Settled annuallyProcessed and paid out across 40+ countries.
T+1
Payout speedFunds reach merchants the next business day.
99.99%
UptimeMulti-region rails with redundant failover.
6 days
Median go-liveFrom signup to first live charge.
How money moves

From signup to settled payout

Four stages, one platform — onboard a merchant, take the payment, settle the funds, and pay out the net proceeds.

  1. 01

    Onboard

    Merchants verify identity (KYC/KYB) in minutes.

  2. 02

    Charge

    Accept cards, wallets & local methods via hosted or embedded checkout.

  3. 03

    Settle

    Funds settle T+1 with full ledger transparency.

  4. 04

    Payout

    Net proceeds land in each merchant's account automatically.

The old way vs. Cobaltpay

Stop assembling a payments stack by hand

Most teams bolt together a gateway, a ledger, a KYC vendor and a payout rail — then maintain the glue forever. Cobaltpay folds it into one platform.

Stitching it together yourself

  • Integrate a gateway, a ledger and a payout provider separately, then keep them in sync.
  • Build merchant onboarding and KYC/KYB flows from scratch and own the compliance burden.
  • Reconcile balances by hand and stitch reports across three different dashboards.
  • Chase down PCI scope, SCA and fraud tooling vendor by vendor.
  • Wait weeks for engineering before a single payment can go live.

With Cobaltpay

  • One API for charges, ledger and payouts — money moves through a single source of truth.
  • Hosted onboarding with KYC/KYB built in; we carry the regulated heavy lifting.
  • Automatic reconciliation and unified reporting in one real-time dashboard.
  • PCI DSS Level 1, SCA-ready and fraud controls included out of the box.
  • Go live in days with embedded or hosted checkout — no stack to assemble.
Why Cobaltpay

One platform for every way money moves

Onboarding, payments, payouts, risk, and reconciliation — composed into a single API and a single ledger. Less stitching, fewer vendors, one source of truth.

Live · pay.cobaltpay.com

One platform, every rail

Cards, SEPA, ACH, instant transfers, and wallets behind a single integration. Add a payment method without touching your checkout.

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TLS 1.3 · Secured
Live

Instant onboarding

Verified merchants go live in minutes. KYB, document checks, and underwriting run automatically in the background.

Programmable payouts

Split, schedule, and route funds with code. Pay sellers, partners, and platforms on the cadence you choose.

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Built-in risk scoring

Every transaction is scored in real time. Block fraud, reduce chargebacks, and keep good customers flowing through.

Multi-currency

Accept, hold, and settle in 135+ currencies. Local pricing for buyers, predictable FX for you.

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Unified ledger

Every charge, fee, and payout reconciled to the cent. Export audit-ready statements whenever finance asks.

Product

Everything a platform needs to take payments

From onboarding sub-merchants to settling payouts — one integration covering checkout, risk, multi-currency and the ledgers underneath.

New sub-merchant
KYB verification
Verified
Business name
Lumen Studio Ltd
Country
🇮🇪 Ireland
Tax ID / VAT
IE 9X8X4Y5Z
Onboarding progress3 / 3
Platform

Your whole money operation, in one ledger

Watch funds move in real time — available and pending balances, automated payouts, and reconciliation that ties every settlement back to the transaction that funded it. No spreadsheets, no month-end surprises.

  • Real-time available & pending balances
  • Automated T+1 payouts to every merchant
  • Exportable, audit-ready ledgers
Explore the platform
Balance
€312,480.55available
€48,210.00 pending
Payout scheduled
Volume · 7d+18.4%
DateMerchantAmountStatus
Jun 26Northwind€84,120.00Paid
Jun 26Tablebird€19,540.25Processing
Jun 25Cargoflow€142,300.00Paid
Jun 25Hearth€7,910.80Pending
Gross €253,871.05Fees €3,808.07Net €250,062.98
Developers

Built for developers, by people who ship

A clean REST API, predictable objects, and webhooks you can trust. Move from sandbox to live without rewriting your integration — same endpoints, same idempotency guarantees, full settlement data on every event.

  • REST API + signed webhooks
  • Idempotency keys on every write
  • Full test mode with sandbox data
  • SDKs for Node, Python, Ruby, Go
  • Embeddable checkout & elements
1import Cobaltpay from "cobaltpay"
2 
3const cobalt = new Cobaltpay(process.env.API_KEY)
4 
5// Create a charge on a connected account
6const charge = await cobalt.charges.create({
7 amount: 4200, // $42.00
8 currency: "usd",
9 account: "acct_8Q2k",
10 application_fee: 336, // 8% + $0.30
11}, { idempotencyKey: "chg_7f1" })
12 
13console.log(charge.status) // "succeeded"

Integrations

Plugs into the stack you already run

Connect your storefront, ops tooling and data warehouse in minutes. Pre-built connectors and a clean API mean you ship faster and reconcile everywhere your team already works.

9+
Native connectors, no glue code
135+
Currencies settled across our rails
6 days
Median time to first live charge
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Pricing

One transparent price per transaction

No setup fees. No monthly minimums. Pay only when a payment succeeds.

€120,000
€10,000Active: Tier 2 · 8.00% + €0.22€5,000,000
Monthly volume
€120,000
Effective rate
8.37%
Estimated monthly cost
€10,040
You keep ~91.6%of every euro

Standard

Early platforms taking their first payments.

8% + €0.25
per successful transaction
  • Hosted onboarding & KYC
  • Card, SEPA & wallets
  • T+1 settlement
  • Dashboard & ledgers
  • Email support
Most popular

Scale

Growing marketplaces moving real volume.

8% + €0.20
flat rate, any volume
  • Everything in Standard
  • Flat 8% at any volume
  • Split payments & payouts
  • 3-D Secure / SCA tuning
  • Multi-currency settlement
  • Priority support & SLA

Enterprise

High-volume PayFacs with custom needs.

Custom
flat 8%, custom fixed fees
  • Everything in Scale
  • Flat 8%, custom fixed fees
  • Dedicated solutions engineer
  • Custom KYC & risk rules
  • Bespoke reporting & ledgers
  • 99.99% uptime SLA

Failed and refunded payments are free · Funds settle T+1 · Cancel anytime.

Trust & compliance

Compliance handled, end to end

Cobaltpay is a PCI DSS Level 1 payment facilitator, so your merchants inherit our compliance instead of building and auditing their own.

PCI DSS Level 1

Highest level of card-data security, certified annually.

SCA & 3-D Secure 2

Strong customer authentication built into every flow.

SOC 2 Type II

Independently audited controls and processes.

GDPR ready

Data residency and processing you can document.

KYC / AML

Automated identity and sanctions screening at onboarding.

Tokenized vault

Card data is tokenized; raw PANs never touch your servers.

Encryption

AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2+ in transit, everywhere.

24/7 monitoring

Real-time fraud and anomaly detection across rails.

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Customers

Platforms ship faster on Cobaltpay

Marketplaces, vertical SaaS, and platforms use Cobaltpay to onboard merchants, move money, and settle payouts — without standing up their own payments and treasury teams.

We replaced our in-house ledger and merchant onboarding with Cobaltpay in a quarter. Embedded KYC cut activation from three weeks to two days, and reconciliation that used to eat a full engineer is now a webhook. The economics are just per-transaction — no monthly minimum to defend internally.
MO
Maya Okafor
COO, Tablebird
T+1 payouts to 4,000 carriers without us building any treasury. Cobaltpay handles settlement, split funds, and the 1099s — we ship features instead of money-movement plumbing.
DR
Daniel Reiss
CTO, Cargoflow
Flat, transparent pricing we can actually read, SCA and 3-D Secure handled out of the box, and chargeback evidence files generated for us. Our first marketplace transaction went live in under a week.
LB
Lena Brandt
Founder, Hearth
FAQ

Questions, answered

Straight answers on pricing, settlement, compliance and going live.

Can't find it? Talk to our team.

  • You pay one flat rate per successful transaction — interchange, scheme fees and our margin folded into a single number. No setup fees, no monthly minimums, no per-seat charges. Failed authorizations and refunded payments are free, so you only ever pay when money actually moves.

  • Settlement lands in the merchant's bank account on a T+1 schedule by default — captured today, paid out tomorrow. Payout cadence is fully configurable: keep it daily, switch to weekly, or hold a rolling reserve. Every payout is reconciled to the underlying transactions in the ledger.

  • No. Cobaltpay is the payment facilitator — we hold the acquiring relationships and the master merchant account. Your merchants onboard as sub-merchants directly under your platform, so there's no separate processor contract or Stripe account for them to set up.

  • Onboarding and KYC run in minutes through a hosted or embedded flow, with identity and business verification handled automatically. Most underwriting clears the same day; median time from sign-up to accepting live payments is around six days, gated mainly by document checks.

  • We support merchants across 40+ countries and process in 135+ currencies, with presentment in the buyer's local currency. Beyond cards, you can switch on local payment methods — SEPA, iDEAL, Bancontact, wallets and more — without extra integration work.

  • Cobaltpay is certified PCI DSS Level 1, and card data never touches your servers — it's captured and tokenized in our vault. Every transaction is screened by built-in 3-D Secure (SCA) and risk scoring, so you inherit the compliance and fraud posture rather than building it.

  • Disputes flow through a managed workflow: you're notified the moment a chargeback is raised, evidence can be submitted directly from the dashboard or API, and status changes are pushed back to you in real time via webhooks. We track representment outcomes end to end.

Get started

Start moving money in days, not months.

Onboard merchants, accept payments and settle payouts on one platform. Go live with sandbox keys today and switch to production once your first account passes KYC.

or talk to our team

No setup fees · No monthly minimums · PCI DSS Level 1