# Celero Commerce

> Celero Commerce is a Nashville-based payment processor and commerce technology company serving small and midsize businesses through banks, software vendors, independent sales partners, and direct relationships. It bundles omnichannel acceptance, merchant onboarding, fraud and PCI tools, analytics, business software, and hands-on support. After building scale through a long acquisition campaign, Celero agreed in June 2026 to be acquired by Deluxe for approximately $625 million, subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** Nashville, United States
- **Founders:** Kevin G. Jones (Founder and CEO)
- **Team size:** 350+ sales and customer-service experts reported by the company; supplied company data lists approximately 300 employees.
- **Products:** Payment processing, Celero Connect, Celero Fusion, Compass, BankMax
- **Notable:** Reached the Inc. 5000 at No. 1,735 in 2023., Built a top-10 U.S. non-bank payment-processing position, according to company and transaction materials., Reports more than $28 billion in annual processing volume and 55,000+ U.S. customers.

## Products & services

- **Payment processing** — Credit, debit, ACH, check, EBT, mobile, contactless, online, and in-person acceptance, plus terminals and funding options.
- **Celero Connect** — A modular omnichannel gateway with payment APIs, hosted collection tools, webhooks, query APIs, mobile and desktop SDKs, and browser-based point-of-sale capabilities.
- **Celero Fusion** — An embedded-payments program for independent software vendors with configurable merchant pricing, revenue-sharing options, tokenization, fast onboarding, split funding, and named support.
- **Compass** — A CRM and merchant management system with onboarding workflows, real-time reporting, dashboards, and notifications.
- **BankMax** — A growth program for financial institutions using data mining, sales strategy, training, and marketing tools to pursue deposits and fee income.
- **CeleroBI** — Portfolio-level business intelligence and real-time analytics for partners and merchants.
- **Confirm** — A proprietary automated merchant-underwriting tool designed to verify key data points quickly and compliantly.
- **Celero PCI** — Payment security and PCI-compliance support for merchants and partner institutions.
- **Streamline** — A mobile-first payment solution that lets small businesses accept payments using a smartphone or tablet.
- **Business management software** — A catalog of more than 5,000 payment and business-management tools across more than 100 industries, including acquired vertical SaaS products such as RazorSync.

## Achievements

- Reached the Inc. 5000 at No. 1,735 in 2023.
- Built a top-10 U.S. non-bank payment-processing position, according to company and transaction materials.
- Reports more than $28 billion in annual processing volume and 55,000+ U.S. customers.
- Expanded from the United States into Canada through the 2024 acquisition of SONA.
- Added specialized grocery, convenience, fuel, and pay-at-the-pump capabilities through Precision Payments and Petroleum Processing Solutions.
- Founder Kevin Jones was named a 2025 Nashville Titan 100 honoree.
- Signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Deluxe for approximately $625 million in June 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Published guidance on integrated payments, loyalty economics, bank analytics, merchant onboarding, and the changing role of AI in ISV development.
- **2026-06** — Deluxe announced a definitive agreement to acquire Celero for approximately $625 million in cash; closing was expected in the third quarter of 2026, subject to approvals and customary conditions.
- **2026-03** — Acquired substantially all assets of Petroleum Processing Solutions, adding fuel, marina, pay-at-the-pump, and multi-lane retail expertise.
- **2024-11** — Acquired Precision Payments, taking expected North American annual card volume above $28 billion and deepening multi-lane retail expertise.
- **2024-08** — Acquired Canadian processor SONA, extending the platform into Canada and lifting expected annual processing volume to roughly $26 billion at the time.

## Links

- Website: https://celerocommerce.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/celerocommerce
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/celerocommerce
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwyFa09HkgghAAlcSQQf85A
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/celerocomm/

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Last updated: 2026-08-15