The payments platform
that puts you in control.

Banks, ISVs, and enterprise merchants use kepa to power card payments, keep their merchant relationships, and launch in weeks — not quarters.

See the API
// the platform

Not your typical
payments processor.

Most platforms hand you a percentage of the experience. kepa orchestrates every layer of card-present from acceptance through settlement — visibility, control, and economics, all the way down.

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Every layer.
One platform.

Acquiring, terminals, ledger, settlement, reporting — one integration, one contract, one source of truth. Replace four vendors with infrastructure that ships as a single API.

Platform overview
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Your acquirer.
Your economics.

Negotiate interchange-plus directly with the acquirer of your choice. Every basis point itemized, every fee auditable, multi-acquirer routing built in. The math stays yours.

See the API
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Your merchants.
Your relationship.

Onboard, support, and own the relationship end to end. Your brand on the merchant app and portal; ours nowhere your merchants can see. We're infrastructure — not a competitor sitting in your channel.

// orchestration

Online has had this
for a decade.

Token portability, smart routing, instant failover — table stakes for online checkout, all but absent in card-present. Most CP stacks pick one acquirer, write against their gateway, and pray the auth host stays up. kepa makes card-present route the way online does.

01

Own your tokens

Vault tokenization that lives at the platform, not the processor. The same token works whether the transaction lands at acquirer A, acquirer B, or both — and stays portable when you renegotiate. Card data is yours, not someone else's asset to leverage at renewal.

02

Build your routing strategy

Route by BIN, brand, ticket size, MCC, time of day — or by whichever acquirer wins on cost and approval rate for that exact transaction. Rules live in your dashboard, not a contract clause. Change them without a redeploy.

03

Auto-failover between acquirers

When acquirer A's auth host degrades, the next transaction lands at B in under a second. Your merchants never see a decline that wasn't a decline; you never sit on a Slack thread waiting for someone else's incident to clear.

04

Your data, your dashboard

Settlement, reporting, reconciliation — across every acquirer you route to, in one schema you can export. No CSV gymnastics. No PSP-shaped lock-in if you outgrow the relationship.

// developers

One API.
The full lifecycle.

Card presentation through acquirer settlement, kicked off by a single call. Three connectivity models from the same surface — Local Connected (~8ms), Cloud (~90ms), Local Embedded (~2ms).

# Initiate a card-present sale on any device in your fleet.
curl https://api.kepapay.co/v1/transaction/sale \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KEPA_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: a3f1...c2e9" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "amount": 4250,
    "currency": "USD",
    "device_id": "dev_01HX9...",
    "acquirer": "primary",
    "capture_method": "automatic",
    "metadata": { "order_id": "ord_8821" }
  }'

Build on the
foundation, not
around the gateway.

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