# CardConnect

> CardConnect is a Fiserv payments business serving US merchants, software providers, independent sales organizations, and sales agents. Its CardPointe platform combines payment acceptance and transaction management, CardSecure supplies tokenization and encryption, and CoPilot helps partners onboard and manage merchant portfolios.

- **Founded:** 2006
- **Headquarters:** King of Prussia, United States
- **Founders:** Brian Shanahan (Founder and former CEO)
- **Products:** CardPointe, CardPointe Gateway, CardSecure, CoPilot, CardPointe Integrated Terminal
- **Notable:** Developed a combined merchant acceptance, payment security, and partner management offering., Became publicly traded through a 2016 reverse merger., Acquired by First Data in July 2017 for approximately $750 million aggregate transaction value.

## Products & services

- **CardPointe** — Merchant payment acceptance and management platform with reporting, virtual terminal, mobile tools, recurring billing, and integrations.
- **CardPointe Gateway** — REST APIs for payment acceptance, tokenization, reporting, and integration with business applications.
- **CardSecure** — Patented tokenization and PCI-validated point-to-point encryption designed to keep sensitive payment information off merchant systems and reduce PCI scope.
- **CoPilot** — Partner portfolio management covering merchant onboarding, equipment ordering, support tickets, and detailed residual reporting.
- **CardPointe Integrated Terminal** — Cloud-connected terminal integration with the CardPointe Gateway and CardSecure.
- **Clover offerings** — Fiserv point-of-sale hardware and software distributed through the CardConnect partner channel.

## Achievements

- Developed a combined merchant acceptance, payment security, and partner management offering.
- Became publicly traded through a 2016 reverse merger.
- Acquired by First Data in July 2017 for approximately $750 million aggregate transaction value.
- 2017 acquisition materials reported roughly 67,000 merchant customers.
- Named No. 1 midsize company in the Philadelphia Inquirer’s 2018 Top Workplaces coverage.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Fiserv’s CardPointe Gateway API changelog reports a May 9 production deployment adding paymenttype filtering for ACH versus card funding reports and a commcard inquiry response field.
- **2026-02** — Gateway documentation updated February 9 describes a revised hostbatch format and a timeoutresp field for inquiry responses involving timed-out transactions and automatic reversal attempts.
- **2026-09** — PHP Point Of Sale updated its CardConnect setup guide on September 9, documenting cloud terminal connections and register-to-terminal mapping; this is a partner documentation update, not a CardConnect product launch.

## Links

- Website: https://www.cardconnect.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cardconnect
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/CardConnect
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPdQ1JCT0Uw
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/card_connect/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CardConnectPayments

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