The case for retailers

You built the relationship. Own the payment.

The biggest names in retail already reached for bank-funded payments — and each rented the machinery from a bank and a card network. BioePay is the model they were trying to build.

The three models

Two retailers tried this. Here's what they built.

One wrapped a bank-account pull in a card issued by a bank, still on a card network. The other built a prepaid wallet shoppers must load first. Neither escaped interchange. Neither kept the customer.

Model A
Model B
BioePay
Funding
Pulls from the bank
Pre-loaded wallet
Pulls from the bank
Eligibility
Approval + a bank
Anyone who pre-funds
Everyone — banked or not
Interchange
Yes
Yes
No
The customer
The issuer's
The issuer's
Yours
Getting paid
You carry the risk
Pre-funded, high friction
Guaranteed — returns are on us
Lessons learned

The last big attempt failed. Its mistakes are our blueprint.

A consortium of the largest retailers once tried to build a bank-funded, merchant-owned payment — and it collapsed. Not because the idea was wrong, but because of how they built it. We kept the idea and fixed every mistake.

What sank it
Solved the merchant's cost problem — gave the shopper no reason to switch.
A clunky separate app and a QR fumble at the register.
Demanded bank details cold, in an untrusted app, with no protection.
A slow committee of rival merchants — years to a single pilot.
Went to war with other wallets instead of adding value.
What BioePay does
Loyalty-native incentives — the shopper earns rewards for using it.
Lives in the app they already use — or just a phone and a PIN. No new habit.
Bank-verified, PIN-protected, on decades of real-time verification.
One operator that moves fast — no consortium, no committee.
Plugs in alongside your loyalty program — additive, never a fight.
Why us

This isn't a startup guessing at bank payments.

BioePay runs on a payments and risk operation that has verified bank-account transactions at the point of sale since the 1970s — the infrastructure the newcomers are still trying to build.

50+ yrs
Verifying bank-account payments at the register.
80%+
Of US bank accounts reachable for real-time verification.
Near-all
Shoppers eligible — banked or not, no credit approval.
$0
Interchange, and no card chargebacks to fight.
Built to be used

Adoption is the whole game. We designed for it.

Simple registration

Add a bank account and pick a PIN, right in the app. No forms, no approval, no waiting.

Fast checkout

A phone number and a PIN. No wallet, no card, no app or smartphone required.

No card required

Nothing to issue, carry, or replace. The shopper's bank account is the card.

App integration

Lives inside the loyalty app shoppers already use. No new app, no new habit.

Incentives for use

Fund rewards for enrollment and usage from the interchange you no longer pay — so shoppers have a reason to switch, and a reason to keep coming back. You own the customers and the loyalty; we bring the pay-by-bank rail, the risk controls, and the experience.

Let's strategize together

Prove it on your own shoppers first.

Our payment experts will map a pilot against your loyalty program — real conversion, your customers, before you scale anything.

Pilot first No rip-and-replace Proof on your shoppers