About Paymentsense

We do our thing so you can do yours

We’re all about loving what you do. It’s why we all got into business, right? And our passion is helping small businesses take card payments. It’s our thing. So we’re shaking up the industry. Throwing out the rule book. Taking on the big banks. All to help business owners like you get paid, for less. But how do we do it?

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9-5? Chance would be a fine thing. Your business is your empire, only this emperor does everything. “Be your own boss” they said. But he’s a difficult bugger

After all, no one knows what you're capable of like you do. You’ve watered your business with the sweat of your brow. Pulled it up from the dust. We know what it takes to build a business out of nothing.

We’re a payments company… but we’re not like the others. We’re hardwired to serve small businesses. Making their passion pay is in our DNA.

We want you to keep more of your hard-won profits. We want you to have the same tech as the big guys. And we want you to spend less time cashing up and more time dreaming up, cooking up,and building your business up.

You've paid your dues, paid the tax and earned grey hairs and bad backs.

You’ve lost count of the kisses you’ve missed and the bedtimes you skipped burning midnight oil. But after a day’s toil, you can lock up, look back and say. “I made this.”

Paymentsense. Let’s make passion pay.

Going beyond the ordinary

Combining cutting edge technology, extraordinary customer support and an unconventional way of thinking, we can offer lower rates, better service and peace of mind. We call it Beyond Ordinary. And it’s why more and more people are choosing to take card payments with us – making us one of the fastest growing fintech businesses in all of Europe.

Paymentsense by numbers

70,000

Customers and counting

€10bn+

Worth of sales processed every year

250m+

Transactions annually

A history of innovation

We don't follow, we lead.

2008: Paymentsense founded

For Paymentsense it all started on a bench in Las Vegas. Two friends, George Karibian and Jan Farrarons, had a eureka moment outside the Venetian hotel. They realised the card payments industry was broken and in desperate need of fixing.

2009: Our very first customer

After spending the first 12 months building over 4m lines of code for our tech platform called Mothership, we finally launched in late 2009. We boarded our first customer, a hairdresser from West London and the rest, as they say is history.

2010: First to offer 3 day card machine set up and UK-based 24/7 support

Paymentsense is founded on two things, cutting edge technology and great people. In 2010 we became the first provider to offer a terminal in five days and access to support around the clock.

2011: First to launch 24 hour ecommerce setup

In 2011 we went one better, the first in the market to pioneer ecommerce setup within a day. It was unheard of, people said it couldn’t be done. Well we did it!

2013: 30,000 customers boarded

By the summer of 2013, we’d successfully boarded over 30,000 customers making us the largest merchant service provider in Europe. We celebrated by doubling-down our efforts in order to enhance our product offering to our customers.

2014: First to offer automated till roll delivery

It may not sound like much but our Automated Till Rolls sparked the beginning of a wave of innovative products that transformed our product set. From Cancellation Protection to PCI Phone Validation, we like to go beyond the ordinary and do what’s right for our customers.

2017: 60,000 customers boarded

Doubling the size of the business in four years was something we were incredibly proud of. It also happened to coincide with us being placed on the Sunday Times tech track for the 4th year in a row.

2018: First to offer Integrated payments with no extra cost

We believe in making passion pay. That’s why we spent millions developing a cloud-based technology that creates a seamless connection between your card machine and your till. We call it Connect and it comes for free if you take a card machine from us.

We’re more interested in providing great service, but it’s always nice to be noticed.

Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100

This is a list of the fastest growing tech companies. And we’re on it for the fifth time in a row after winning the Outstanding Business Award.

Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200

This is a roundup of Britain’s top private companies with the fastest-growing international sales and we’re on the list.

Lloyds Bank National Business Awards

Having previously won Growth Business of the Year, we were shortlisted for Innovation Award and Customer Focus Award. And we couldn’t be prouder.

Inc. 5000 Europe

Out of the millions of companies that operate in Europe, we were on the list of fastest-growing private companies. For the second consecutive year.

We hate to boast. So we let our customers do it.

They were easy to talk to and reassured me by breaking down everything I needed to know, from the merchant accounts to card processing.
Bob McCulloch
Tom Foolery Coffee Company

When I called them up they said they’d pay all my cancellation charges for me! Not only that, their charges were way less and would save me a bundle each year.
Simon White
Simon White Plumbing

The card machine is up and running, taking contactless payments which is what I was most worried about as it’s so in demand, as well as Chip and PIN.
Vanessa
Ffions Hair & Beauty Boutique

It took about five days once everything had gone through, the changeover was seamless, and I didn’t even notice the new card machine.
Gary Lee
Green Leevs Garden Centre

When I had an issue with one of the mobile card readers last year, Paymentsense sorted it and sent me a new one within 48 hours.
Glenn Gourlay
Gourlay Chauffeur Service