Accept anywhere
Tap to Pay in person, hosted invoices, and a simple checkout for small businesses that need to move quickly without enterprise overhead.
Investor-ready concept site · FARST v1
Global payments for small business, minus the usual nonsense.
FARST Payments helps merchants accept cards and digital wallets in person, on invoices, and online, with fast settlement, customer-funded fee recovery, and payment status transparency built into the core product.
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Launch channels: in person, hosted invoice, and simple checkout.
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Unified platform for acceptance, payout visibility, and fee recovery.
ETA
Estimated payment timing designed into the product from day one.
Fast
Settlement-first operating model built for small-business cash flow.
Core value
One platform for acceptance, settlement, visibility, and margin protection.
FARST is designed for the operators who just want to take payment, get paid, and move on. No fragmented tools. No black-box delays. No endless fee leakage quietly chewing through margin.
Settle faster
Funds are routed to the merchant as soon as they clear, with same-day settlement as the operating default where available.
Show the timeline
Pending, reviewed, cleared, settled. FARST makes payment status visible to both sides instead of hiding delays behind vague labels.
Protect margin
Processing costs can be applied to the customer invoice by default, helping small business stop absorbing every transaction fee.
Core products
One platform. Three launch lanes.
FARST launches where small businesses actually need it: on the counter, inside the invoice, and at checkout. No giant implementation project required.
Tap to Pay on iPhone and Android
Hosted invoices with payment links
Simple shopping cart and checkout
Cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Alipay and more
Fast payout and settlement reporting
Predictive payment ETA and review transparency
Example API response
Payment status with real context
The platform should tell the merchant and the payer what is happening, what comes next, and when they can reasonably expect funds to clear.
{
"paymentId": "pay_01J...",
"status": "pending_review",
"amount": 10250,
"currency": "AUD",
"paymentMethodType": "card_wallet",
"paymentMethodBrand": "apple_pay",
"customerFacingFee": 239,
"merchantNet": 10011,
"timeline": {
"estimatedClearAt": "2026-04-01T07:45:00Z",
"estimatedSettleAt": "2026-04-01T09:30:00Z",
"confidence": "medium",
"reason": "Standard review triggered"
},
"payout": {
"destinationType": "bank_account",
"mode": "standard",
"status": "queued"
}
}
Ideal customer profile
Built for operators, not payments specialists.
FARST is aimed at small businesses that need a practical way to accept payments, recover fees cleanly, and understand when money is actually moving. In plain English: the people doing the work, not the people with time for a six-month integration circus.
Mobile operators and invoice-driven teams
Tradies, consultants, field services, and managed services businesses that need to issue invoices, take deposits, and close out jobs without chasing money for days.
- Hosted invoice payments
- On-site Tap to Pay collection
- Faster visibility of cleared versus pending funds
Simple in-person acceptance without terminal sprawl
Small retailers, pop-ups, and storefront operators that want app-based payment acceptance and a cleaner way to manage fee recovery and payout expectations.
- Tap to Pay on supported devices
- Clear payment status and settlement timeline
- Cleaner margin control at the point of sale
Checkout for merchants who need to start now
Businesses that need a simple shopping cart or checkout link without building a giant custom payments stack on day one.
- Simple online checkout
- Wallet-ready acceptance options
- Platform-managed payment clarity and reporting
Vision
A smarter alternative to opaque real-time payments.
The long game is bigger than card acceptance. FARST is designed to evolve into a transparent account-to-account payment experience that gives both sides visibility, estimated timing, and operational clarity that the old rails never bothered to provide.
Launch direction
Built for the businesses that need payments to just work.
FARST is aimed at operators who care about speed, visibility, and margin. The product story is simple: accept payments anywhere, know what is happening, and stop wearing every fee by default.
Tap to Pay for counters, mobile operators, and service call-outs
Hosted invoices that explain pending, review, cleared, and settled states properly
Simple checkout for merchants that need to start selling without a giant build project
Frequently raised questions
The obvious questions, answered properly.
A payments platform should not sound like it is hiding behind fine print and buzzwords. These are the core answers the FARST story needs to make clear early.
How is FARST different from a normal gateway?
It is not just a checkout layer. FARST is positioning around payment visibility, payout clarity, and cleaner fee recovery, instead of just handing back a vague status and calling it a day.
Who is this built for first?
Small businesses that need practical payment acceptance across in-person, invoice, and online channels, without building enterprise-grade plumbing from scratch.
What does payment ETA actually mean?
It means the platform is designed to estimate when a payment is likely to clear or settle, using transaction timing, payout rules, and historical behaviour instead of shrugging and saying pending.
Why does fee recovery matter so much?
Because small-business margin gets chipped away one transaction at a time. FARST is built around giving merchants a cleaner default option to stop absorbing every processing fee.
Early access
Register interest before the rest of the market wakes up.
This is still an early-stage concept site, but the commercial story is already clear. FARST is for businesses that want payment acceptance, settlement visibility, and cleaner margin control without building the plumbing themselves.