Shape & Shift4: Powering the Future of Payment Facilitation

In a rapidly evolving payments landscape, businesses need solutions that are fast, flexible, and built for scale. That’s why Shape is excited to announce our collaboration with Shift4—an alliance that is redefining payment facilitation and enabling businesses to go to market faster than ever.

A Seamless Fit: Agility Meets Deep Payments Expertise

At Shape, our platform is designed to support payment facilitators with a fully customisable, integration-agnostic solution. Partnering with Shift4 enhances this offering by providing our licensees with access to Shift4’s rapid onboarding capabilities, enabling them to onboard merchants in near real-time.

“Collaborating with Shape, leveraging their technology, and quick onboarding with our automatic onboarding API, enables payment providers to onboard almost in real-time,” says Or Paran, Shift4’s VP of Sales & Business Development in the UK.

“Shift4 rapid onboarding enables our licensees to take our front end, which plugs into that rapid onboarding, and customize to create a unique merchant-facing offering, allowing them to take that to market,” says Jack Mangnall, Co-Founder at Shape.

This collaboration brings together Shape’s configurable platform with Shift4’s robust acquiring capabilities, making it easier than ever for PSPs, ISOs, and PayFacs to scale efficiently.

Overcoming Industry Barriers

Before partnering with Shift4, we encountered many acquirers who struggled to meet the unique needs of payment facilitators. Rigid systems, outdated processes, and a lack of understanding made it difficult to deliver the level of flexibility our licensees require.

“We identified Shift4 as offering market-leading support for payment facilitators the world over,” highlights Mangnall.

With Shift4’s cutting-edge acquiring infrastructure and Shape’s highly configurable front end, we’re removing barriers and empowering payment providers to move faster, onboard more efficiently, and deliver a superior experience to merchants.

Looking Ahead

With more payment providers looking to serve the SME market, the demand for scalable, frictionless, and compliant payment solutions has never been greater. Our partnership with Shift4 is setting a new standard—giving businesses the tools, flexibility, and support they need to launch and scale with confidence.