Priority a payments and banking fintech purpose-built to collect, store, lend and send money with a connected commerce engine that combines full-service merchant acquiring for accounts receivable, complete automated payables tools for bill payment, and sophisticated treasury management solutions to accelerate cash flow and optimize working capital for its customers. Priority operates at scale across three primary business segments: Merchant Solutions, Payables and Treasury Solutions and is presently serving approximat ely 1.8 million customer accounts processing approximately $150.0 billion in annual transaction activity while administering approximately $1.7 billion dollars in account balances. The Priority Commerce Engine serves enterprise grade independent software vendors (ISV's), as well as discrete institutional and Merchant Solutions customers across all major sectors of the U.S. economy including Retail, Hospitality, Healthcare, Real Estate, Government, Utility, Ed ucation, Non-Profit, Business-to-Business, Professional Services and Financial Institutions. Priority builds with intention, utilizing market research and stakeholder feedback to drive growth activity. The result is an end-to-end solution that customers leverage across their financial lifecycle, engineered to accelerate cash flow and optimize working capital. Trust is paramount in partnerships with customers, which is why Priority works with multiple, proven partners, to ensure our customers experience the security and peace of mind that comes with diversification, while enjoying the cost and time-saving benefits of consolidation. Priority centralizes all money movement activity within a single, integrated platform, empowering users to seamlessly collect, store, lend, and send money. Highly configurable and easy to use, the Priority Commerce Engine enables financial agility and operational stability for today’s fastest-growing enterprises.
Priority was established in 2005 and has grown from a founder-financed technology startup with a mission to build an institutional caliber commerce engine to advance the convergenc e of software and payments to become the 5th largest non-bank merchant acquirer (after considering the merger of Global Payments and Worldpay) in the U.S. by volume, according to the Nilson Report issued in March 2025. Since inception, we have built a native tec hnology platform that provides all forms of payments (card acquiring and issuing, ACH, check and wire) and embedded finance solutions that serve customers of any size. Priority maintains a global business platform with 1,200 employees operating from its headquarters in Alpharetta, GA and regional offices in other locations, including New York, NY; Hicksville, NY; Chattanooga, TN; Raleigh, NC; Dallas, TX; Houston, TX; San Francisco, CA; and Chandigarh, India.
Priority delivers value to its partners by leveraging its payments and embedded finance technology to deliver solutions that power modern commerce for SMB and enterprise software and business partners. We handle the complexities of payments and embedded finance to allow partners to focus on their core business objectives. Priority's solutions are offered via API or proprietary applications with nationwide money transmission licenses, providing end-to-end operational support including automated risk management and underwriting, full compliance and industry leading customer service.
Our growth has been underpinned by three key strengths: 1) market leading proprietary product platforms in Merchant Solutions, Payables and Treasury Solutions verticals; 2) focused distribution engines dedicated to helping partners monetize their merchant payment networks; and 3) a cost-efficient, agile payment and business processing infrastructure, purpose-built to support our partners’ operations.