San Francisco Merchant Settlement

Direct payment rails without markups

Cherry Pay delivers transparent interchange-plus processing and owned countertop hardware for growing retail, hospitality, and commerce operators across the United States.

Core Infrastructure

Engineered for clean accounting

Eliminate predatory multi-year terminal contracts, opaque compliance charges, and padded settlement deductions with direct interchange processing.

Direct Interchange Rates

Zero Hardware Leases

Clean Batch Reconciliation

Every transaction routes directly through wholesale card network rates plus an explicit, fixed basis-point margin clearly documented on every monthly report.

Modern countertop terminals and mobile card readers purchased outright at wholesale cost. No four-year equipment rentals and zero proprietary hardware locks.

Gross deposits clear within twenty-four hours alongside matched itemized fee ledgers, ensuring your bookkeeper never parses ambiguous lump-sum adjustments.

Reliability Metrics

Predictable financial settlement

99.99%

core gateway uptime

$0

terminal lease markups

24h

standard batch settlement

100%

plain-statement transparency

Embarcadero Operations

Direct merchant advocacy

Operating out of Two Embarcadero Center, Cherry Pay was founded to replace the obfuscated billing practices pervasive across regional merchant processors.

Our analysts personally review current merchant processing statements to identify padded basis points, non-qualifying surcharges, and disguised batch fees that quietly erode operator gross margins.

Audit your processing statement today

Send our San Francisco underwriting desk your latest merchant processing statement. We will return an itemized, line-by-line fee comparison within one business day.