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Let Them Pay How They Want. We Make It Easy.

Offer myriad payment options, painlessly. Accepting online and mobile payments, processing ACH and offering other digital payment must-haves is easier with CSG Forte.

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Right-on-the-money payment solutions

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Accept payments any way, any place, anytime

From online checkout portals to IVR and point-of-sale solutions, you’ll offer every means of fast, secure payments customers could ask for.

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Untangle your payment operations

Spend less time managing payments and gain more insights with back-office solutions for transaction monitoring, dispute management, analytics and more.

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Process with confidence and security

Arm your organization against fraud, bad checks and manual errors using CSG Forte’s validation and verification solutions.

Everyone thrives with CSG Forte

Customer stories

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Priority gets speed, security and scalability

An accounting software provider needed a simple solution for accepting ACH and credit card transactions—that could also keep up with their rapid growth. Enter CSG Forte.

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More on-time payments. Happier tenants.

Rentec, a provider of online property management tools, enabled ACH and credit card payments using CSG Forte. Then the landlords using recurring payments saw 20% less churn.

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City modernizes payments with ease

After the City of Kinston launched their new online and IVR payment systems, they saw 41% YoY growth in the transactions processes. All while saving staff time.


  • CSG Forte is the best partner in payments we’ve ever had.

    Nathan Miller, President & Founder, Rentec Direct

  • Their customer service is awesome…Just dynamite when it comes to making sure we are taken care of.

    Gina Hughes, Cash Management Supervisor, Lucas County

  • There aren’t many companies that utilize the same vendor for more than eight years. There is a reason this has occurred with us in CSG Forte’s case.

    Ido Meros, Senior Vice President, Check21

  • The integration with CSG Forte’s tools created a seamless solution. Integrating with CSG Forte quantifiably saves time and creates a better customer experience.

    Scott Davisson, U.S. Managing Director, Priority Software

  • Forte provides great customer service from beginning stages of planning to final deployment. They definitely still have a personal touch that is missing in so many industries.

    Assistant City Manager, City of Kinston

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Want to see exactly how easy it is to take online payments, manage your payment operations and more? We’ll give you a tour of any solution you want to see.

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CSG Forte: a trusted name in payments

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20+ years of experience

Lower your risk with a payments provider who’s handled all kinds of implementations with all kinds of organizations, including those like yours.
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81K+ merchants served in North America

Government, telecom, insurance and other industry merchants trust CSG Forte as their payments solution provider, including Charter Communications, DISH, Gexa Energy and SedonaOffice.

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$84B in payments processed annually

Entrust your transactions to a major vendor who’s in the top 20, according to The Strawhecker Group’s 2022 Directory of U.S. Merchant Acquirers.

Complete payments platform

A cloud-based platform that handles all your most complex payment management functions in one place? That’s Dex.

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  • Quick and responsive reporting tools
  • User-friendly dashboard
  • Powerful and secure payment processing
  • Advanced management for transactions, funding, customers and more
  • Dispute management to maximize profits

Payments processing

Swift, secure online payments you accept right from your website. Forte Checkout is the perfect blend of easy implementation with robust customization tools.

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  • Process credit cards, debit cards and ACH/eChecks.
  • Take one-time payments or use e-wallet capabilities.
  • Process a single payment or schedule a recurring set.
  • Minimize abandonment and maximize sales.
  • Reduce compliance burdens, risks and liability.

Payment verification

Don’t let online fraud , manual errors or insufficient funds slow your growth. We have options to help stop bad checks from processing and validate online payments against fraud.

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  • Offer immediate, actionable responses on every transaction.
  • Get real-time reporting for Transaction Routing Numbers and invalid check sums.
  • Provide comprehensive routing and bank account (DDA) validation across multiple data sources.
  • Get daily data source updates.
  • See decision codes provided on all transactions and broad access to financial and retail databases.

Why CSG Forte?

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Leave the complexity to us

Our focus on security and compliance lets you focus on growing your business. We have built-in PCI compliance, tokenization and even P2PE encryption to help reduce risks.

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Fits perfectly with solutions you have

With a vast suite of APIs, our payment solutions integrate smoothly with your existing website, processes and software architecture.

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PaaS puts you in control

With our platform-as-a-service model, you can activate capabilities and deactivate them as needed. You pay for what you use and not for what you don’t.

Awards & recognition

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2024 GEM AWARDS

Lowest Gateway Minute Outage: North America

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2023 GEM Awards

Best of Breed: API Set

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THE STRAWHECKER GROUP 2022 API AWARDS

Best of Breed API Set Runner Up 

You’re just a conversation away
from a great payments solution

Every organization’s payment challenges are different. Tell us about yours, and let’s figure out the most cost-effective ways to tackle them.

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