As online marketplaces and platform businesses expanded globally, managing payments between buyers, sellers, service providers, and partners became increasingly complex. The growth of the sharing economy, online travel agencies, and multi-vendor marketplaces created demand for solutions that could automate payouts while maintaining compliance with evolving regulations such as PSD2 compliance.
To address these challenges, Acapture launched SlicePay, a platform designed to simplify marketplace payments by automatically splitting funds among multiple parties, currencies, and jurisdictions. The solution was built to help businesses navigate the operational and regulatory burdens associated with handling third-party funds while maintaining a seamless customer experience.
Using a single API integration, SlicePay enables organizations to automate payment distribution, support international payouts, and manage funds securely until products or services have been delivered. As payment regulations continue to evolve, solutions that streamline compliance and payout management have become increasingly important for growing digital platforms.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands – September 14th, 2017 – Acapture, a global, data-driven omnichannel PSP, has launched SlicePay, an easy-to-integrate product designed to reduce the burden of payouts to multiple parties in various countries and currencies. By adding SlicePay to its portfolio, Acapture now offers a BaFin validated, PSD2-compliant solution to its international clientele. It supports marketplaces, sharing economy operators, franchises, online travel agencies and other companies handling third-party funds to become fully compliant with PSD2 (Payment Service Directive 2).
Alongside the challenge of PSD2, these organizations also need to manage complex payouts to various partners. With one RESTful API, SlicePay makes this process simple through an automated payment system. The marketplace receives a single payment from the buyer, which SlicePay splits between the sellers, in the right currency, at the right time and in compliance with all regulations. If needed, a secured account can be used to hold the funds until the product has been delivered.
Marketplaces can use SlicePay to handle their seller’s transactions regardless of whether or not the seller is a client of Acapture, as the on-boarding and client management is all done on their side. By doing so, the full customer experience remains in the hands of the marketplace.
“We let merchants focus on growing their business and we take care of the rest. With regulation cited as one of the top ecommerce challenges, merchants are about to face a highly disruptive legislation change, namely the activation of the revised payment services directive.” said John Snoek, VP Product at Acapture. “Online marketplaces are currently experiencing massive growth and that’s what they should continue to focus on: refining and following their own growth strategies. When developing SlicePay we aimed to offer such companies a flexible, cost-effective payment solution that makes PSD2 compliance feel easy, allowing them to concentrate on developing their business”.
Companies that fail to become PSD2 compliant could face major financial penalties if found operating without a license from January 2018 onwards. More information regarding the implications and consequences of PSD2 can be found in Acapture’s latest research reports, available here. Marketplaces can check if PSD2 affects them here.
About Acapture
Acapture is the subsidiary company of Payvision, one of the world’s fastest growing global card acquiring networks. Licensed as a payment institution by the Dutch Central Bank, Acapture combines with Payvision to maximize the revenues of merchants and help them grow their business globally. This is done through a complete data-driven omnichannel payment solution, capable of managing a payment at every stage, from checkout to fund collection to settlement.
Together with its parent company, Payvision, Acapture, was awarded Best PSP at the 2017 MPE Awards in Berlin, and it specializes in maximizing revenue for merchants and marketplaces with international ambitions. Acapture’s system features SlicePay for simplified allocation of funds to multiple parties from a single transaction, data science management for improved authorization rates, a one-day integration using one RESTful API, flexible, consolidated reporting, a streamlined reconciliation process, global card acquiring and the ability to handle 80+ of the most popular alternative payment methods and 160+ transaction currencies.
The launch of SlicePay reflected a broader shift in the payments industry toward specialized infrastructure that supports complex marketplace payments and platform-based business models. As marketplaces continue to expand across borders, the need for automated, compliant payment flows will only become more critical.
By combining payout automation with PSD2 compliance capabilities, Acapture positioned SlicePay as a solution for businesses looking to reduce operational complexity while supporting international growth. The ability to efficiently manage international payouts and seller payments remains a key competitive advantage for modern digital platforms.
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