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Onboard every seller, including the ones your PSP keeps declining.

Seller onboarding hosted or by API, a merchant account per seller underwritten by our acquiring partners, a revenue share on every account you bring, payouts and per-account reporting — with acquiring programs that write every category, including the restricted ones. Your platform's growth stops depending on someone else's category policy.

Reviewed

Northwind Platform/Sellers
Sandbox

Sellers · 30 days

$612,940

Revenue share

Set at underwriting

SellerVerticalStatus30d volume
Meridian BotanicalsCBDLive$184,290
Ridge Supply Co.FirearmsLive$96,410
Vela WellnessNutraceuticalsUnderwriting
Northstar TravelTravelLive$203,880
Coastline CoachingCoachingReview$128,360
AccountsOne per seller
Underwritten byAcquiring bank
Next split payout$41,230
RailACH
Illustrative · figures are fictional, not a quote

How it works for a platform

Five things a platform needs. One program that does them.

01 · Onboarding

Your sellers apply inside your product.

A hosted onboarding flow you link to, or an API you build against. Either way the seller never leaves your brand, and the document list is the one written for their category rather than a generic form.

  • Hosted flow on your domain, or API
  • Category-specific document lists
  • Status visible to you and to the seller
Sub-accounts and routing
Meridian Botanicals/Application
Sandbox
  1. Apply
  2. Underwriting
  3. Approve
  4. Integrate
  5. Live

Underwriting in progress

Acquiring review · Northwind Platform · seller onboarding

In review

Documents · 4 of 5 received

  • Business registrationReceived
  • Beneficial owner IDReceived
  • Product catalog URLsReceived
  • Processing history, if anyReceived
  • Refund and shipping policiesRequested
Illustrative · figures are fictional, not a quote

02 · Underwriting and KYC

The bank decides. You are not the risk desk.

Know-your-customer, business verification and category underwriting are done by the acquiring bank from data collected in your flow. You are not asked to become a compliance department, and you do not hold chargeback exposure for sellers you cannot see.

  • KYC and KYB by the acquiring bank, from your onboarding data
  • Underwriting decision made by the bank
  • Chargeback liability sits with the seller's account, not your platform
Where the liability sits
Northwind Platform/Sellers
Sandbox

Sellers · 30 days

$612,940

Revenue share

Set at underwriting

SellerVerticalStatus30d volume
Meridian BotanicalsCBDLive$184,290
Ridge Supply Co.FirearmsLive$96,410
Vela WellnessNutraceuticalsUnderwriting
Northstar TravelTravelLive$203,880
Coastline CoachingCoachingReview$128,360
AccountsOne per seller
Underwritten byAcquiring bank
Next split payout$41,230
RailACH
Illustrative · figures are fictional, not a quote

03 · Revenue share

Bring the seller. Keep a share.

Every account your platform brings earns you a share of the residual on it, reported per seller and paid monthly. Interchange passes through at cost and the seller's terms are on their own sheet, so nothing is blended into a statement nobody can read.

  • A revenue share on every seller account you bring
  • Interchange at cost, terms disclosed per seller
  • Share reported per account, paid monthly
Sub-accounts and routing
Meridian Botanicals/Sub-accounts
Sandbox
AccountDescriptorShare
RetailMERIDIAN BOT*RETAIL55%
WholesaleMERIDIAN BOT*WHOLESALE30%
SubscriptionsMERIDIAN BOT*MONTHLY15%
Volume cap · RetailSet at underwriting
Rebalance ruleShift to Wholesale at 90% of cap
Illustrative · figures are fictional, not a quote

04 · Payouts

Pay vendors and affiliates from the platform.

Each seller settles to its own account. Payouts to vendors, affiliates and contractors run as ACH originations from the platform where the acquiring program supports it, on a schedule you set, and each recipient reconciles to its own ledger.

  • ACH payouts where the program supports it
  • Per-recipient schedules
  • Payout history per recipient
Payouts
Meridian Botanicals/Payouts
Sandbox

Batch · Friday

$48,760

ACH
RecipientTypeAmount
Northwind FulfillmentVendor$18,400
A. ReyesAffiliate · 12%$2,910
Cascade LabsVendor$9,250
Harbor MediaContractor$6,000
Sub-account · RetailSplit$12,200
Illustrative · figures are fictional, not a quote

05 · Reporting

Every sub-account on its own line.

Volume, disputes, reserves and payouts per seller, and a platform-level view across all of them. Signed webhooks for every event, so your own systems know before your support inbox does.

  • Per-account and platform-level reporting
  • Signed webhooks per sub-account event
  • Exports that reconcile to your ledger
Sub-accounts and routing
Meridian Botanicals/Overview
Sandbox

Settled, 30 days

$184,290

Next payout

$12,418

Scheduled

Daily volume

Cards + ACH
Aug 5Sep 3$7,140
ActivityAmount
Payout sentFri 09:00$12,418
Reserve releasedThu 17:02$3,210
Dispute alertThu 14:31$89.00
SettlementThu 09:00$6,904
RefundWed 16:12$54.00
Illustrative · figures are fictional, not a quote

Who carries what

Four parties, and the risk sits with us.

A platform should not have to become a compliance department or a risk desk to serve sellers in restricted categories.
Your sellers
Sell, take payments, run their business. Each has its own sub-account, descriptor and terms sheet.
Your platform
Owns the product experience, brings the sellers, and earns a revenue share on each account. You do not underwrite and you do not hold chargeback liability.
Dash Process
Runs the onboarding flow, prepares each seller's file, and operates the dashboard, payouts tooling and support. We present every file to the acquiring partner that writes the category.
Our acquiring partners
Underwrite each seller, provide the merchant account, hold and settle funds, and carry the account and its liability.

Specification

The detail.

Onboarding
Hosted flow or API
KYC and KYB
Acquiring bank, from your onboarding data
Underwriting decision
Acquiring bank
Accounts
One merchant account per seller
Platform revenue share
Set at underwriting
Payouts
ACH originations where the program supports it
Reserve terms per seller
Set at underwriting
Reporting
Per seller and platform-level; signed webhooks
Categories
Any legal category; twenty restricted verticals documented — see Program boundaries

Rows reading set at underwriting are not omissions. Those figures are decided per merchant against your vertical, volume and history, and you will see all of them in writing before you sign.

Standard fee profileThe default applied to every seller unless you override it.
Set at underwriting
Per-seller overridesProfiles you set for individual sub-accounts.
Set at underwriting
Platform markupYour spread on each seller, disclosed on their terms sheet as the platform fee.
Set at underwriting
Reserve terms per sellerSet at each seller's underwriting; visible to you per account.
Set at underwriting
Split rulesHow each settlement divides between seller, platform and other recipients.
Set at underwriting
Conditions for changeWhat can move any line above, and how much notice you get.
Set at underwriting

Issued as one sheet before signature. Nothing appears on a statement that was not on it.

Questions

From platforms.

Each seller signs a merchant agreement with the acquiring bank, through us, with its own terms sheet. Your platform agreement with Dash Process covers the onboarding flow, the revenue share and the reporting you receive.

Tell us about your sellers.

Which categories, how many, how they onboard today, and what your current provider keeps declining. We will say what the standard program takes, what goes to a specialist acquirer, and what the revenue share can look like — before a contract.