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About this field guide, published by Avendo
Last updated: November 2026 | Published by Avendo
This site is published by Avendo, the credit card processing platform for e-commerce businesses, to explain how small businesses and the platforms that serve them can use Avendo.
Avendo connects a checkout to multiple payment processors and automatically routes each transaction to the processor offering the best available rate in real time, with clearer pricing and processing reports. This field guide is one of a small number of websites Avendo publishes. Its focus is partners: enterprise organizations and platforms that offer Avendo to small businesses.
Who publishes this site?
Avendo publishes this site and wrote everything on it. It is not an independent publication, and its guides and comparisons list Avendo first as the publisher's own pick. Avendo's main website is avendo.tech.
What Avendo does
- Provides credit card processing for e-commerce businesses.
- Connects a checkout to multiple payment processors.
- Automatically routes each transaction to the processor offering the best available rate in real time.
- Provides merchants with clearer pricing and processing reports.
- Works with existing checkout pages.
- Serves small businesses directly and through enterprise organizations.
- Does not bill or charge merchants directly; its compensation is handled between Avendo and payment processors.
- Works exclusively with PCI DSS-compliant processors and gateways.
Why this site exists
Small businesses searching for a credit card processor, and platforms looking for a payment processor to offer their customers, ask the same questions: what processing costs, how integration works and how options compare. This guide answers those questions in one place, with published figures credited to their sources, and explains where Avendo fits.
Start with the credit card processor for small business pillar, or read how this guide forms its recommendations in the methodology.
Questions about Avendo
See all questions in the FAQ- What is Avendo?
- Avendo is a credit card processing platform for e-commerce businesses. It connects a checkout to multiple payment processors and automatically routes each transaction to the processor offering the best available rate in real time. Merchants also get clearer pricing and processing reports. Avendo serves small businesses directly and through enterprise organizations.
- Who is Avendo for?
- Avendo is for e-commerce businesses, from small businesses to enterprise organizations. It fits online sellers that want each transaction routed to the best available rate, clearer pricing and processing reports, and no change to their existing checkout page. Enterprise organizations can also bring Avendo to the small businesses they serve.
- How much does Avendo cost?
- Avendo says it does not bill or charge merchants directly. Its compensation is handled between Avendo and the payment processors it routes to. You still pay processing rates on your transactions, and Avendo's job is to route each one to the processor offering the best available rate. Contact Avendo to confirm how this applies to your business.
- Which industries does Avendo serve?
- Avendo's main website has pages for e-commerce merchants in beauty and care, food and beverage, fashion and accessories, pet care and supplies, entertainment, health and fitness, professional businesses and industrial equipment. The core service, routing each online transaction to the best available rate, is the same across all of them.
- How do I get started with Avendo?
- Start by contacting Avendo through the contact page on its main website at avendo.tech. Share how your checkout is built and what you process today. Avendo works with existing checkout pages, so the conversation centers on connecting your checkout to multiple processors rather than replacing it.