Tilled
Payment gateways
Embedded payments software
Payment software
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What is Tilled
Tilled is an embedded payments platform that enables software companies and platforms to integrate payment processing into their products. It provides APIs and tools to onboard merchants, route transactions to payment processors, and manage payouts and reporting within a unified workflow. The product targets SaaS vendors, vertical platforms, and marketplaces that want to offer payments as a built-in feature rather than sending users to an external checkout.
Designed for embedded payments
Tilled focuses on enabling platforms to embed payments directly into their applications via APIs. This aligns well with SaaS and vertical software use cases where merchant onboarding, transaction processing, and payouts need to be part of the product experience. The approach supports building a payments layer without relying solely on a standalone gateway checkout flow.
Merchant onboarding workflows
The platform includes capabilities oriented around onboarding and managing sub-merchants for platform business models. This is useful for software vendors that need to handle underwriting/KYC-related steps and ongoing account management. It can reduce the need to stitch together separate onboarding and payments components.
Processor-agnostic routing options
Tilled positions itself as supporting connectivity to multiple payment processors, which can help platforms avoid being locked into a single acquiring relationship. This can be relevant for optimizing approval rates, pricing, or regional coverage over time. It also supports scenarios where a platform wants to change processors without rebuilding its entire payments integration.
Less suited for simple checkout
Organizations that only need a basic payment gateway or a quick hosted checkout may find an embedded-payments platform more complex than necessary. Implementation typically requires engineering effort and product design work to embed flows. For small merchants seeking an out-of-the-box payments button, this may be overkill.
Feature depth varies by processor
When a platform routes through different processors, available payment methods, dispute tooling, and reporting can vary depending on the underlying processor capabilities. This can create inconsistencies across merchants or regions. Teams may need additional work to normalize experiences and data across processor connections.
Smaller vendor ecosystem
Compared with larger, long-established payment providers, Tilled generally has a smaller third-party integration ecosystem and fewer prebuilt extensions. This can affect availability of ready-made connectors for accounting, fraud, subscriptions, or regional payment methods. Buyers may need to rely more on custom development and vendor support.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Start-Up | $500 per month (SaaS fee) | 70% revenue share; Best for companies processing less than $5M monthly; Contact sales for onboarding and details. |
| Scaling | $2,500 per month (SaaS fee) | 80% revenue share; Best for companies processing more than $5M monthly; Contact sales for onboarding and details. |
| Enterprise | Custom pricing | Contact sales for enterprise/alternative/international pricing; includes premium support and custom reporting (Enterprise-only features). |
Notes: The pricing page also provides a sample revenue calculation assumption: merchant pricing set as 2.9% + $0.30 and all-in partner costs set at 2.27% + $0.15 (used for revenue estimates on the pricing page).
