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09/02/2026

Many ERPs and software platforms are watching agentic payments with interest, waiting to see how the technology evolves before making major investments.

That's a reasonable instinct, but the platforms that will lead are the ones thinking beyond features and focusing on the infrastructure that enables them.

No one is suggesting platforms need to launch autonomous payment capabilities next quarter. The bigger opportunity is ensuring the payment infrastructure beneath your platform is built to support those capabilities when your customers are ready for them.

That means thinking beyond the transaction itself and considering the architecture that enables governance, ERP integration, workflow integrity, and future innovation.

The platforms that start asking those questions today will be in a much stronger position as agentic commerce continues to mature.

Read the Fortis perspective👉 https://hubs.ly/Q04wmW4g0

Growth doesn’t always make finance more efficient. For MAP Retirement, every acquisition brought its own payment systems...
09/01/2026

Growth doesn’t always make finance more efficient.

For MAP Retirement, every acquisition brought its own payment systems and AR processes, creating more manual work and making standardization harder.

With Fortis embedded directly into NetSuite, MAP created one repeatable payment workflow across the organization, reducing manual reconciliation while building a foundation that can scale with continued M&A.

👉 See how MAP Retirement standardized payments as it scaled: https://hubs.ly/Q04w8Vyc0

Most AR breakdowns don't happen in one place. They happen in three. Invoicing that's manually created and delayed in del...
08/25/2026

Most AR breakdowns don't happen in one place. They happen in three.

Invoicing that's manually created and delayed in delivery. Payment options that don't match what customers actually want to use. Reporting that's always a few days behind, so you're making decisions on data that's already stale.

Each one compounds the others. A slow invoice delays payment. A missing payment method delays reconciliation. Delayed reconciliation delays the reporting that would've caught the first problem.

The Fortis AR Accelerator addresses all three inside your ERP environment: automated invoicing, embedded payment acceptance across the methods customers actually use, and real-time reporting that doesn't wait for a manual close.

Firms that automate all three report real gains. 91% of mid-sized companies with fully automated AR say it's driven measurable savings, better cash flow, and real growth.

👉 See how the pieces fit together: https://hubs.ly/Q04vfl1t0

For Rosehill Gardens, a 3% card fee on a $50,000 invoice could mean $1,500 in margin. As the business grew across reside...
08/21/2026

For Rosehill Gardens, a 3% card fee on a $50,000 invoice could mean $1,500 in margin.

As the business grew across residential, commercial, wholesale, and hospitality, Rosehill needed more control over how different customers paid.

With Fortis, Rosehill built a flexible payment strategy that helps protect margins, encourage ACH adoption, accelerate receivables, and simplify reconciliation inside NetSuite.

👉 See how Rosehill Gardens is building payment operations designed to scale: https://hubs.ly/Q04tV2jm0

08/19/2026

The latest Federal Reserve Payments Study highlights a challenge finance teams know all too well: payment volume is growing faster than the value those payments move.

That means more transactions to reconcile, more exceptions to manage, and more manual work.

As Brad Bialas, Chief Commercial Officer at Fortis, puts it:
"CFOs have spent the last several years being told that faster payments solve their problems. The Fed's data confirms what we're hearing directly from finance leaders: the payment clearing quickly was never the hard part. The hard part is everything that has to happen afterward to turn that payment into accurate, usable financial data. That's where finance teams need a partner, not just a processor."

The real challenge isn't moving money faster. It's reducing the operational work that happens after every payment clears.

Our latest blog explores what the Fed's newest payments data means for CFOs and why workflow has become the new measure of payments performance.

👉 Read the full piece: https://hubs.ly/Q04tybNL0

Payments have gotten faster, but has the work around them actually gotten easier? A payment can clear in seconds and sti...
08/18/2026

Payments have gotten faster, but has the work around them actually gotten easier?

A payment can clear in seconds and still leave a finance team matching remittance data, resolving exceptions, reconciling invoices, and cleaning up records afterward.

That’s the disconnect we don’t talk about enough.

Speed matters. But if faster payments still create the same manual work downstream, have we really modernized the process?

Finance leaders, what’s your experience? Has payment modernization actually reduced the workload for your team?

What should ISVs actually be asking their payments provider about AI? Hear from Dave Moore, Senior Vice President, Techn...
08/13/2026

What should ISVs actually be asking their payments provider about AI?

Hear from Dave Moore, Senior Vice President, Technology at Fortis, on why simply asking whether a provider “supports AI” may not tell you much about whether its infrastructure is ready for what comes next:

"Most ISVs I talk to are asking their payments provider whether they support AI. That's a reasonable starting point, but it's not actually the question that matters. The question that matters is whether the platform was built for AI-native workflows or just retrofitted for them after the fact.

A platform that's been retrofitted can handle some of what's coming. But agentic workflows and autonomous transactions put genuinely different demands on infrastructure than traditional payment flows do. The architecture either accounts for that from the start or it doesn't, and you usually find out which one you're dealing with after you've already built on top of it.

A good answer to "what did you build differently?" is specific. It gets into how the platform handles non-human initiated transactions, what the reconciliation logic looks like when there's no human in the loop, how fraud detection is calibrated for higher velocity. If the answer you get is vague, that's a signal worth taking seriously.

If you're in the middle of evaluating infrastructure partners and want to talk through what to look for, I'm happy to have that conversation. Reach out directly."

Payments

Most businesses have never measured their payment acceptance rate, and have no idea how it compares to others in their i...
08/11/2026

Most businesses have never measured their payment acceptance rate, and have no idea how it compares to others in their industry.

Failed transactions, slow settlements, and processing fees quietly pull revenue out of the business every month. None of it shows up as a line item. Checkout abandonment doesn't get logged either. Customers who hit friction just leave.

Without a benchmark, there's no way to know if what you're experiencing is normal for your industry or a problem you could actually fix.

Fortis built the Growth Index to answer that directly: a two-minute assessment that scores your payments performance and shows you where revenue is slipping through.

👉 Get your free Growth Index score: https://hubs.ly/Q04sz4tW0

08/06/2026

Most payment platforms are built for one kind of client. Fortis was built for all of them.

Hear from Kevin Shamoun, SVP Platform Innovation at Fortis, on why configurability, not standardization, is what lets a single platform handle straightforward transactions and highly complex ones without forcing a tradeoff.

That flexibility isn't limited to one part of the process. It runs from onboarding through transaction processing, settlement, and reconciliation, built to support both merchants and partners at every stage.

For software platforms evaluating a payments partner, that's the real test: does the platform flex to fit how you operate, or are you the one doing the adapting.

👉 Let's talk about what that could look like for your platform: https://hubs.ly/Q04sb0Yf0

Reconciliation lag doesn't get flagged as a payments problem. It gets flagged as a headcount problem. For CFOs, that's a...
08/04/2026

Reconciliation lag doesn't get flagged as a payments problem. It gets flagged as a headcount problem.

For CFOs, that's an easy mistake to make. Payment data and ERP records aren't syncing in real time, so someone manually matches files and clears exceptions before the books close. Add more people, the thinking goes, and the close moves faster.

But that overhead scales with payment volume, not team size. It's a workflow gap, not a staffing gap, and it belongs on a CFO's desk, not in an IT backlog.

At Fortis, we build payment infrastructure to operate inside financial workflows, not sit upstream of a manual fix.

👉 See what that shift looks like through a CFO's lens: https://hubs.ly/Q04rSJ_v0

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