# CSG Forte

> CSG Forte provides payment processing and payment management for merchants, government agencies and software vendors. Its ACH roots show in tools for bank-account validation, recurring collections and failed-payment recovery, alongside cards, wallets, phone payments, embedded checkout and the Dex management platform.

- **Founded:** 1998
- **Headquarters:** Fort Worth, United States
- **Founders:** Jeff Thorness (Founder and former CEO)
- **Products:** ACH and eCheck processing, Card and omnichannel payment processing, Dex, BillPay, Validate, Validate+ and Authenticate
- **Notable:** Company materials list the 2026 FinTech Breakthrough Payment Enablement Platform of the Year award., Company materials list 2024 Juniper recognition for omnichannel payments and recurring-payment innovation., Lucas County case study reports more than 280% growth in annual transaction count over the first six years of the relationship; vendor-published, not causal proof.

## Products & services

- **ACH and eCheck processing** — Bank-account collections and disbursements, recurring payments, and same-day ACH options subject to eligibility and applicable terms.
- **Card and omnichannel payment processing** — Credit/debit cards, digital wallets, online checkout, point-of-sale devices, phone payments and text-to-pay.
- **Dex** — Cloud-based merchant platform for transactions, customers, schedules, disputes and account management.
- **BillPay** — Electronic bill presentment and payment with installment and recurring schedules; October 2026 enhancements allow multiple schedules for one bill when enabled.
- **Validate, Validate+ and Authenticate** — Bank-account data checks and account-owner authentication, including standalone integration options. Authenticate launched in 2022.
- **Direct Fund Recovery** — Automated re-presentment for eligible returned ACH/eCheck items, including NSF and uncollected funds.
- **Forte Checkout, Secure Web Pay, REST API and Forte.js** — Hosted, embedded and custom integration tools for payment acceptance and tokenization.
- **Payment Facilitation as a Service** — Embedded payments infrastructure with configurable partner responsibilities and buy-rate, revenue-share or hybrid commercial models.
- **CSG PaymentsProtection.ai** — Cross-channel transaction monitoring and payment fraud risk detection; advertised loss-reduction figures are vendor claims rather than guaranteed outcomes.

## Achievements

- Company materials list the 2026 FinTech Breakthrough Payment Enablement Platform of the Year award.
- Company materials list 2024 Juniper recognition for omnichannel payments and recurring-payment innovation.
- Lucas County case study reports more than 280% growth in annual transaction count over the first six years of the relationship; vendor-published, not causal proof.
- Buildium case-study body reports nearly 35% transaction-count growth and 39% growth in dollars processed from 2016 to 2017; the PDF headline describes revenue growth, which the body does not substantiate.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — October 7 BillPay release added multiple schedules per bill, improved schedule visibility and mobile management.
- **2026-06** — June 29 quarterly integration summary documented PayPal support in Forte Checkout and REST, ACH description compliance updates, and Forte.js security enhancements.
- **2026-05** — NEC completed its acquisition of CSG on May 14 U.S. time; Netcracker assumed operational and integration responsibility for the combined business.
- **2026-02** — CSG launched PaymentsProtection.ai on February 3 for cross-channel payment fraud monitoring.

## Links

- Website: https://www.forte.net/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/csg-forte/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/fortepayments
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CSG_Forte
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fortepayments

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Last updated: 2026-10-25