41% → 92%
approval rate · +$8M/mo processed
A top-10 US nutra brand rebuilt its routing and MID stack with JAPAY, unlocking volume that was previously being declined at the issuer.
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Merchant acquiring · High-risk specialists
Approvals that stick.
Revenue that keeps growingflowingscalingclimbing.
Merchant acquiring for nutra, supplement and subscription brands doing $5M+ a month. Approvals that hold, chargebacks handled for you.
Processed today$12,480,000
$0M+/mo
processed
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7-figure merchants scaled
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avg approval rate
0.0%
uptime
Trusted by leading nutra & subscription brands
The problem
High-risk merchants bleed revenue to declines, frozen MIDs and chargebacks. JAPAY was built to fix exactly that.
Generic processors weren't designed for nutra, supplements or aggressive subscription models. We were. Every layer of our stack — routing, MID cascading, dispute handling — is tuned for the volume and volatility your business actually operates at.
Solutions
Everything a serious high-risk merchant needs. In one stack.
01 · Routing
High approval rates.
Smart transaction routing sends every charge down the path most likely to approve — issuer, geography, BIN, ticket size. Approvals stay high even as volume scales.
02 · Infrastructure
Multiple MIDs + cascading.
Automatic load balancing across a portfolio of accounts. No single MID gets overloaded or flagged. If one path softens, traffic seamlessly cascades to the next.
03 · Billing
Native subscription billing.
Recurring billing is a first-class citizen, not a bolt-on. Retries, dunning, updater, prorations — built in and tuned for continuity-heavy models.
04 · Onboarding
Live in days, not months.
A dedicated onboarding team, pre-underwritten paths, and templated integrations get your volume flowing quickly — without cutting compliance corners.
05 · Integration
Shopify and full API.
Drop-in Shopify checkout, a clean REST API, webhooks, and SDKs. Integrate in an afternoon or embed deeply into your own platform.
Chargeback management
We handle your chargebacks. All of it.
Chargebacks kill high-risk merchants. At JAPAY, chargeback management isn't an add-on — it's fully done for you. We run end-to-end dispute prevention and resolution so your MIDs stay healthy and your accounts stay open.
Ethoca integration
Real-time fraud and dispute alerts from issuers, letting us refund before a chargeback is ever filed.
RDR & Verifi
Automated rules resolve disputes instantly at the network level — before they hit your ratio.
Fully managed
Our team monitors, responds and represents disputes for you. You scale; we protect the MIDs.
Ratio protection
Keep chargeback ratios under threshold to avoid VAMP, excessive-chargeback programs and account freezes.
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Chargeback ratios cut by up to 70% across managed portfolios.
1.80%
Typical ratio drop after onboarding — from 1.80% down to 0.40%.
How it works
Three steps from application to scaled processing.
01
Apply
Tell us about your business, volume and current setup. Underwriting begins within hours.
02
Get approved & provisioned
We structure your MID portfolio, configure routing and connect Ethoca, RDR and Verifi.
03
Process, scale & stay protected
You process. We monitor approvals, disputes and MID health around the clock.
Results
100+ seven-figure merchants scaled with us from day one.
1.8% → 0.4%
chargeback ratio · MIDs kept healthy
A subscription supplement seller integrated Ethoca and RDR through our managed program and stayed clear of excessive-chargeback thresholds.
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$500K → $4M
monthly volume · zero account freezes
A high-volume subscription offer scaled 8x on a cascading MID portfolio without a single account being frozen or terminated.
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Security & compliance
The controls a serious acquirer is expected to have. Quietly running in the background.
Cardholder data is tokenized and never touches your systems. Our platform is aligned to SOC 2 controls, PCI DSS Level 1 requirements and 3DS2 flows, with end-to-end TLS across every transaction path.
- PCI DSS Level 1
- 3D Secure 2
- 256-bit TLS
- Tokenized vault
- SOC 2 aligned
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Yes. High-risk verticals — nutra, supplements, subscription, CBD and similar — are our core focus. Our underwriting, routing and dispute infrastructure are built for these categories specifically.
We're optimized for merchants processing from around $500K/month up to $50M+/month. Our best-fit clients are $5M+/month operators who need approvals to hold and MIDs to stay healthy at scale.
Traffic is distributed across a portfolio of merchant accounts based on real-time health signals — approval rate, ticket size, geography, chargeback exposure. If one MID softens, traffic seamlessly cascades to healthier accounts.
Yes — fully managed. We integrate Ethoca for issuer alerts and RDR/Verifi for network-level resolution, and our team monitors, responds and represents disputes on your behalf end to end.
Pre-vetted merchants can be live within a few days. More complex profiles typically complete in 1–2 weeks. Our onboarding team owns the process end to end.
Natively. Recurring billing, retries, dunning, account updater and prorations are first-class — not bolted on. We were built for continuity-heavy models.
Pricing is tailored to your volume, vertical and risk profile. Apply for a quote and our team will structure a proposal within 24 hours.