Centrobill has expanded its payment options for merchants by integrating Apple Pay and Google Pay, allowing businesses in specialized sectors to offer these digital wallet solutions alongside existing payment methods.

The new offerings aim to address a long-standing challenge for merchants in industries such as dating, gaming, AI platforms, digital content, and wellness, which have historically faced difficulties in providing the same checkout convenience as mainstream retail.

Expanded Payment Capabilities

Centrobill now enables clients to incorporate Apple Pay and Google Pay into their checkout processes. These digital wallets can be added alongside other payment options, including cards, bank transfers, and local payment methods, all through a single integration. This expansion is designed to streamline the payment experience for customers, particularly those using mobile devices, where manual entry of card details can lead to reduced conversion rates.

According to Centrobill, the launch targets a gap that has affected specialty merchants for years. Businesses in complex verticals have often been unable to offer the same checkout options as mainstream retail, requiring customers to manually input card details on mobile screens. The addition of Apple Pay and Google Pay aims to mitigate this issue.

Len Garcia, Chief Sales Officer at Centrobill, stated that merchants in complex verticals have long been told that common checkout options were unavailable to them. Garcia indicated that if a business is legitimate and a customer wishes to pay with their phone, they should have that option. Apple Pay and Google Pay facilitate this on the platform Centrobill merchants already utilize for processing.

Centrobill's payment infrastructure supports various payment methods. For bank transfers, it includes options such as ACH, Bancontact, DuitNow, EPS, FPS, Giropay, iDeal, InstaPay, Interac, Interac e-Transfer, Mybank, OnlineBanking, Sofort, PayID, PayNow, PromptPay, Przelewy24, SEPA Direct Debit, UPI, and Zelle. For bank cards, Centrobill supports Apple Pay, Credit Card, and Unionpay. Wallet options include Alipay, Crypto, Paypal, Skrill, TossPay, Viettel Money, Wechat, and X1. Prepaid voucher options include CashToCode, Gash, Neosurf, Pago Efectivo, and Paysafecard.

Addressing Complex Commerce Needs

Centrobill positions itself as a payment infrastructure provider for complex commerce, focusing on intelligent payment orchestration, global acquiring expertise, and compliance-first billing infrastructure. The company aims to help recurring and regulated businesses scale without payment disruption.

The company's team has experience from processing platforms, acquiring banks, and merchant operations, providing insight into payment system challenges, including card scheme rules and banking relationships. Centrobill builds for subscription and AI platforms, gaming and esports, dating, forex and crypto, health and wellness, and other complex or regulated businesses.

Centrobill offers more than a traditional payment gateway. It integrates acquiring, routing, billing, and compliance into a coordinated system. This approach is designed to prevent disruptions that might arise from changes in bank policies or flagged merchant identification numbers (MIDs).

The platform includes features such as decline cascading, which reroutes failed transactions to a backup acquirer to recover potential lost revenue. Smart routing and BIN optimization are also utilized to direct each transaction through the path most likely to be approved, based on live performance data. Centrobill MAX, another feature, incorporates Rebill Optimizer and retry logic to recover subscription payments that might otherwise be written off by other processors.

Centrobill emphasizes that its system is a payments stack rather than just a checkout button, integrating six systems that run on every transaction. The company states that it built these systems as one to ensure payment resilience.

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Key Facts

  • Centrobill has added Apple Pay and Google Pay as payment options for merchants.
  • These digital wallets can be integrated alongside cards, bank transfers, and local payment methods.
  • The new options target merchants in sectors such as dating, gaming, AI platforms, digital content, and wellness.
  • Len Garcia, Chief Sales Officer, highlighted the importance of legitimate businesses being able to offer phone-based payments.
  • Centrobill's platform includes features like decline cascading, smart routing, and BIN optimization.
  • The company aims to provide a comprehensive payment infrastructure for complex and regulated businesses.