EST. 20+ YEARS DIRECT SELLING · HIGH VOLUME · HIGH STAKES

Twenty years of payments for the industry banks don’t understand.

Merchant accounts, redundancy, and risk strategy built exclusively for MLM and direct selling companies — by the team that helped launch the largest in the world.

// Applying is free. Being with the wrong processor is not.

01 RISK NOTICES WE’VE SEEN A THOUSAND TIMES

We know exactly how direct selling companies get into trouble.

Because every direct selling company faces the same five failure modes. Most processors discover them after your funds are frozen. We engineered around them twenty years ago.

Funds HeldFAILURE / 01

The “no cap” that caps you.

A merchant agent or processor tells you there’s no volume cap. Then a handful of great leaders do exactly what great leaders do — and sales explode. Suddenly underwriting “comes in,” your funds are held, and your launch is suffocating. Why? The bank never understood that in this model, a few top leaders can produce enormous volume fast.

We set expectations with the bank before you process a dollar — diving into your launch plan, your leaders, and your rollout so underwriting is never surprised.

911 AvoidedFAILURE / 02

The convention spike.

When you hold your convention, you WILL process extraordinary volume in a very short window. With the wrong processor, that’s the weekend the terminals choke, transactions decline, and you’re making 911 calls from the ballroom floor instead of celebrating with your field.

Your processing is provisioned for the spike in advance. The terminals work. The sales go through. That’s the whole job.

Knee-Jerk ReviewFAILURE / 03

The slowdown panic.

Volume doesn’t only go up. After a launch or convention, it cools — that’s the model. But a processor who doesn’t know direct selling sees a dip and reacts: new reserves, new reviews, new restrictions. The ups and downs are part of your business. They shouldn’t be treated as a crisis.

We work only with banks committed to the direct selling model long-term — partners who read your volume curve the way you do.

Chargeback AlertFAILURE / 04

Chargebacks, bad affiliates, broken fulfillment.

Chargebacks happen. Bad affiliates happen. Downlines happen. Products don’t get shipped. In direct selling, refund and chargeback spikes aren’t a question of if — they’re a question of when, and whether anyone is watching before the card brands are.

You’re plugged into our network of risk-mitigation tools and active chargeback management — catching problems while they’re still fixable.

Single Point of FailureFAILURE / 05

One merchant account, one company-ending risk.

Held funds bring down direct selling companies. Not bad products. Not weak comp plans. Frozen money. If your entire business runs through a single merchant ID, one underwriter’s bad morning is your existential threat.

Multiple merchant IDs across trusted banking relationships — so you can properly scale, with real redundancy built in from day one.

02 THE 3 A.M. QUESTIONS

MLM owners have more sleepless nights than any other industry.

We know, because we’ve sat beside founders through every one of them — for twenty years. Some worries come with the territory. One of them shouldn’t.

We can’t remove every nightmare. We remove the one that kills companies: not knowing if your money will be there.

  • Q.01Will the leaders stay?
  • Q.02Will they promote it properly?
  • Q.03Will the fulfillment centers come through?
  • Q.04Will the funds be available? — Handled. That one’s ours.
Payments Diagnostic

What is going on with your payments?

Tell us your situation in a sentence, or tap an example. You will get straight advice and exactly which part of us can help.

Or start with a common one

What you need
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03 ONLINE · IN PERSON · AT EVENTS

Take payments every way. The right way.

Your field sells everywhere — your processing should too. One account, three channels, all watched by the same team.

Direct selling entrepreneur tracking $10,000 in recurring online payments on her dashboard
CHANNEL / 01

Online

Enrollments, e-commerce, and autoship — recurring direct selling revenue flowing through a gateway-ready account built for your real volume, spikes included.

Customer tapping her card on a phone to pay in person at delivery
CHANNEL / 02

In person

Deliver the package, take the payment — your field's iPhone becomes the terminal with Tap to Pay. A card tap on the phone, done. No hardware, no waiting, no "I'll pay you later."

Wireless payment terminal approving a sale at a direct selling convention booth
CHANNEL / 03

At events

Handheld wireless terminals provisioned for your convention floor — when thousands of distributors buy in one weekend, every terminal works and every sale goes through.

GATEWAYS WORKS WITH YOUR STACK

Keep your gateway. Keep your cart. We plug into it.

You should never have to rebuild your checkout to fix your payments. We work with all major gateways and nearly everything you are already running.

NMI
Authorize.net
USAePay
QuickBooks
98%

of all software platforms and checkout carts are supported. If your field is selling through it, chances are we already work with it.

HARDWARE & TAP TO PAY DEJAVOO & CLOVER PARTNERS

We do not fit you into our box. We fit the hardware to you.

Most processors hand you whatever they stock and let you figure it out. We carry the full range and match it to how you actually sell, on the floor, at the booth, in the middle of a convention crowd, then program it and ship it ready to run.

FOR EVENTS

Handhelds that survive the room

Wireless handhelds that keep working while your team walks a packed arena or convention hall, the exact place a weaker setup gets blocked or drops signal and the sale dies with it.

TAP TO PAY ON IPHONE

Nothing extra to carry

Take a contactless payment on the phone already in your team's pocket. Powered by our Dejavoo partnership with Tap to Pay on iPhone and iPOSgo.

WIRELESS TERMINALS

The Dejavoo P8 family

The P8 wireless Android terminal family for booths, tables, and pop-ups, configured to your account before it ever leaves us.

IPADS & CLOVER

Full point of sale

Clover systems and iPad setups for fixed tables and branded check-in, the hardware your team already knows, ready to run an entire operation.

Dejavoo & Clover Partners

Every device is programmed, configured, and supported in house. Your team does not set up payment hardware. They plug it in, or they click start, and it works.

04 SERVICES & ENGAGEMENTS

Start with the account. Scale with the strategy.

Whether you're launching, scaling, or in trouble right now — there's a clear way in.

FOR STARTUPS

Launch Package

$10,000 one-time

Launching a new MLM? Get every chess piece on the board before day one.

  • Merchant services, set up correctly
  • Full pre-launch audit — comp plan, leaders, rollout, fulfillment
  • Expectations set with underwriting before you scale
  • The playbook used to launch the world's largest MLMs
Plan My Launch
IN TROUBLE NOW

Trouble Review

$500 one-hour call

Funds held? Chargebacks climbing? Refunds spiking? Account under review? Book a one-hour consulting call and get a direct read on what's happening and what to do next.

  • Diagnosis of your current processing issue
  • Chargeback & refund risk assessment
  • Immediate next steps, no fluff
Book the Call
ONGOING ADVISORY

Fractional Payments Team

$5,000 / month

Your payments department, without the payroll. The advisory team that's plugged in before problems become emergencies.

  • Multiple MIDs managed for scale & redundancy
  • Risk mitigation network & chargeback tools
  • Convention & launch volume planning
  • A direct line to people who've seen it all
Hire the Team
05 ABOUT THE TEAM

Led by payments expert Patricia Carlin.

For over twenty years, Patricia Carlin has provided merchant accounts and advisory services exclusively to direct selling companies. This team helped launch many of the largest MLMs in the world — including Jeunesse and FFI — before MLM was even a thing online.

We know your business, because we know the issues you will face — because every direct selling company faces them. The launch surge. The convention spike. The slowdown. The chargebacks. We've been on the inside of all of it, on the banking side and the merchant side.

That's the difference between a processor and a partner: one reacts to your business. The other already knows what's coming.

20+
Years in direct selling payments
$30B+
In merchant-produced transactions
World's Largest
MLMs launched, incl. Jeunesse & FFI
0
Surprises your underwriter should ever have
We love start-up MLMs.
START-UPS WELCOME

Launching an MLM? Get it right from day one.

Why take the hard road. Day one, you get the processing volume you need, packaged the right way, with the questions that sink new companies answered before underwriting ever sees them.

APPLICATION FEE$500

Fully refundable the moment you process your first transaction.

SETUP REVIEW$5,000included

We review the setup, fix the bank messaging and packages, and answer the hard questions first.

$500 REFUNDABLE ON FIRST TRANSACTION · $5,000 REVIEW INCLUDED · 99% APPROVED

PARTNER PROGRAM REFERRAL PARTNER OPPORTUNITY

Have a deal? Refer it. Get paid. Never worry about us taking it.

Two ways to work with us, both built on the same promise: your relationship stays yours. We handle the payments, you keep the client.

FOR AGENTS

Agents

Have a deal? Refer it to us and make money, without ever worrying about us taking it. We are loyal, we are trusted, and we will do whatever it takes to get the deal approved, keep it live, and keep your merchant protected, so they keep referring business to you.

FOR PARTNERS

Partners

Software companies and platforms with deals they would rather hand off than service. Pass them to us and earn, while your clients get a payments team that actually understands direct selling and treats your name like it is on the account too.

Your leaders will produce the volume. We'll make sure you can keep it.

Apply for a merchant account today — it's free. Or if you're already in trouble, book a review before the bank books one for you.

Limited engagements per month · Every account is managed by payments professionals — never gig agents

FAQ MLM & DIRECT SELLING MERCHANT ACCOUNTS

Answers for direct selling founders.

The questions MLM and network marketing owners ask most about merchant accounts and payment processing.

The best MLM merchant account is one underwritten by a provider that actually understands direct selling — its launch spikes, convention volume, and natural seasonality. MLM Processing places accounts with banks that say yes to direct selling: 99% approval, uncapped volume, multiple merchant IDs (MIDs) for redundancy, competitive rates, and a $5,000 review and audit included free. Led by payments expert Patricia Carlin with 20+ years and $30 billion+ in processed volume. See the merchant account →
Banks classify MLM, network marketing, and direct selling as "high-risk" because of rapid volume growth, recurring autoship billing, distributor refunds, and chargeback exposure. A specialized high-risk MLM merchant account is underwritten for these realities up front — so your funds aren't frozen the moment a few top leaders drive a big launch month or a convention produces a sudden volume spike.
Yes. Startup MLM and direct selling companies get approved when expectations are set with the bank before processing begins. Our Launch Package includes merchant services set up correctly, a full pre-launch audit of your comp plan, leaders, rollout, and fulfillment, and underwriting briefed on your real launch plan — so the approval holds as you scale. See the Launch Package →
A DSA (Direct Selling Association) merchant account is a payment processing account for companies that sell through independent distributors or representatives rather than retail stores. These accounts have to handle recurring billing, multi-channel sales (online, in person, and at events), and high-volume convention weekends — which is why direct selling companies use processors that specialize in the model instead of generic providers.
Held funds are the number-one cause of failure for direct selling companies. To prevent it: get underwritten for your real projected volume up front, never run on a single merchant ID, provision for convention and launch spikes in advance, and actively manage chargebacks and refunds. We structure multiple MIDs for redundancy and brief banks on your launch plan before you process a single dollar.
Yes — one MLM merchant account, all three channels. Online for e-commerce, enrollments, and autoship; in person via Tap to Pay on iPhone, where the phone itself becomes the terminal; and at events using handheld wireless terminals provisioned for convention-floor volume. We support all three through our Dejavoo partnership and integrate with most direct selling software and all major gateways.
Applying is free with no obligation, and a $5,000 review and audit is included with every approved account. Beyond the account, we offer a $10,000 Launch Package for startups, a $500 one-hour consulting or trouble-review call, and a $5,000/month Fractional Payments Team for ongoing advisory and risk management. Compare services →

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