Paymentology

Cloud issuer processing across emerging and developed markets

As of 1 September 2026, Paymentology's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. A global issuer processor operating in more than fifty countries, formed from the merger of Paymentology and Tutuka. Softwr lists it under APIs. Paymentology is available on Web, API.

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Overview

What Paymentology does

Paymentology processes card transactions for issuers: authorisation, real time data, tokenisation, virtual and physical card issuance, and programme management across debit, prepaid and credit. It runs in the cloud with regional deployment, and after Paymentology and Tutuka merged in 2022 it operates across Africa, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Europe and Latin America under the Paymentology name. The distinguishing fact is geographic reach into markets that hosted United States and European processors do not certify in. If you are launching a card product in Kenya, Nigeria, the Philippines or across the Gulf, the shortlist of processors with live network certification, local scheme relationships and settlement experience is short, and Paymentology is usually on it. That is worth more than feature parity, because a processor without local certification simply cannot launch you. Buyers are neobanks, telcos, mobile money operators and banks in emerging markets, plus established issuers expanding into new regions. The trade offs a buyer must plan for: Paymentology is a processor, not a licence holder, so you still need an issuing licence or a sponsor bank in every market; pricing is per transaction and per active card with minimums, so dormant cards in a low activity portfolio cost money; and running one processor across many regulators does not remove the need for local compliance, settlement accounts and scheme membership in each.

What people use it for

A neobank launching cards in an African or South East Asian market where hosted United States processors have no certification
A mobile money operator adding a card product on top of an existing wallet base
A bank consolidating several regional card processors onto one platform
A fintech expanding an existing card programme into the Gulf without re platforming

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Paymentology.

Paymentology processes but does not hold issuing licences, so every market still needs your own licence or a sponsor bank, which is usually the slowest and most expensive part of a launch.
Fees include per active card charges and monthly minimums, so a portfolio with many dormant cards pays for plastic that generates no interchange.
Certification, settlement and scheme relationships differ by country, so a multi market rollout is a series of separate projects rather than one integration.
As a processor it sits between your product and the networks, meaning outages and scheme mandate changes reach your cardholders through a party you do not control.
Documentation and developer self service are weaker than the United States hosted processors, so early integration depends heavily on Paymentology implementation staff.

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What people choose instead of Paymentology

Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.

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Galileo
Galileo: If your programme is United States centred and you want an established domestic processor
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Episode Six
Episode Six: If you need on premise or private cloud deployment for regulatory reasons
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Highnote
Highnote: If you want issuing and acquiring on one hosted platform in the United States

Pricing

What Paymentology costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Paymentology processing

On request

Quoted per programme and per market
Typically per transaction and per active card fees plus a monthly minimum
Issuing licence or sponsor bank required in each market and not provided
Card network membership and settlement accounts remain the issuer's responsibility
Implementation and certification timelines vary materially by country

Capabilities

Features

Global issuer processing
Card processing across more than fifty countries with regional deployment
Real time transaction data
Authorisation level data streamed to the issuer for controls and analytics
Virtual and physical issuance
Instant virtual issuance and physical card production management
Tokenisation
Apple Pay, Google Pay and network token support
Multi currency and multi product
Debit, prepaid and credit programmes on one platform
Card controls
Merchant category, geography, velocity and channel rules
Programme management tools
Portfolio, cardholder and dispute management interfaces
Fraud and risk integration
Connections to third party fraud and scoring providers

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

Does Paymentology provide the BIN and licence?

No. You need your own issuing licence or a sponsor bank in each market; Paymentology processes the transactions.

What is the actual pricing model?

Per transaction and per active card, with a monthly minimum. Dormant cards still cost, so model your activation rate.

Why choose it over a United States issuer processor?

Network certification and live programmes in markets where those processors do not operate, which decides feasibility rather than preference.

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