4Geeks Payments overview

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4Geeks Payments offers Instant Global Scaling for Digital Creators and Developers. From recurring billing to full Merchant of Record services, 4Geeks Payments manages everything for digital products and standard assets. No drama, just growth.

Empower your digital business with 4Geeks Payments, a comprehensive Merchant of Record (MoR) and revenue growth platform designed to simplify and enhance subscription and product management for digital creators. As the legal seller of your digital goods, we streamline the entire lifecycle—from customer onboarding and instant product delivery to recurring billing, tax compliance, and payment processing. This enables you to focus on building great digital products while we handle global compliance and fraud prevention.

By acting as your Merchant of Record, 4Geeks Payments ensures a smooth and secure experience for both your business and your customers, taking on the liability of payment processing and global tax collection.

This guide will allow you to understand how 4Geeks Payments works, the API, as well as explanations and integration examples.

4Geeks Payments is the ideal solution for businesses of all sizes seeking to:

• Instantly scale digital products globally with full tax and compliance coverage
• Simplify and streamline subscription management
• Automate billing and digital product delivery
• Enhance customer experience and satisfaction
• Gain real-time insights into subscription performance
• Drive revenue growth and business expansion

What’s included¶

• Payment Processing — Handling the full transaction flow, including accepting payments via credit/debit cards, digital wallets, local payment methods, and more; managing authorization, settlement, and reconciliation.
• Global Payment Infrastructure — Setting up and managing merchant accounts, payment gateways, and integrations with banks/card networks to enable smooth, localized checkouts (including multi-currency support and currency conversion).
• Tax Compliance and Management — Calculating, collecting, filing, and remitting indirect taxes such as sales tax (US), VAT (EU), GST (e.g., Australia, India), or similar consumption taxes in relevant jurisdictions; handling registrations, reporting, and audit requirements.
• 3D Secure (3DS) and Authentication — Implementing fraud-resistant authentication protocols like 3DS to reduce card-not-present fraud and improve transaction approval rates (often included as part of secure payment processing).
• Fraud Prevention and Risk Management — Deploying tools and systems to detect/prevent fraudulent transactions, including risk scoring, monitoring, and chargeback prevention.
• Chargebacks, Refunds, and Disputes — Managing customer disputes, processing refunds, handling chargebacks, and assuming liability for them (including financial responsibility for losses).
• Regulatory and Legal Compliance — Ensuring adherence to standards like PCI DSS (payment card data security), KYC (Know Your Customer), AML (Anti-Money Laundering), and other regional financial/data protection regulations.
• Subscription and Recurring Billing Management — Supporting recurring payments, subscription lifecycle (e.g., renewals, upgrades, cancellations), and related billing automation.

Start accepting online payments¶

In order to accept online payments you need an activated Payments service account. 4Geeks Payments provides multiple ways to integrate to mobile apps, websites and platforms:

• no-code tools
• payments on your website

No-code tools¶

It is relatively easy to accept online payments via no-code tools. There are several no-code platforms that offer built-in payment processing capabilities, such as Squarespace, Shopify, Wix, and Weebly. These platforms allow users to create online stores or websites and accept payments without the need for extensive technical knowledge or coding skills.

We’ve made it easy to accept payments without the hassle of developing complex transactional systems. You don’t need technical knowledge or expensive equipment to start accepting online payments in your online store, billing software or customer management system.

If you’re looking for 4Geeks Payments integration and don’t want to go through the hassle of technical programming knowledge, then look no further than our list of platforms. There’s no limit to the type of business you have or how long it’s taken you to get started.

Payments integrated on your website¶

The simplest way to integrate 4Geeks on custom websites or platforms, is to use one of the plugins for any of the available platforms such as Wordpress/WooCommerce, Magento, Odoo, etc.

Alternatively we provide third-party client libraries that you can use to integrate the API with your platform in a few lines of code. These libraries are maintained and supported, for the most part, by the community, for languages such as Ruby on Rails, Python, . NET and Go. However, you can always consume the API using HTTP methods, or write your own libraries.

Check all the available endpoints, as well as specific examples for each endpoint in the API reference.

Frequently Asked Questions¶

Is 4Geeks Payments PCI DSS compliant?¶

Yes. 4Geeks Payments is fully PCI DSS compliant, ensuring that all transaction data is handled with the highest security standards. Learn more about our terms.

What are the transaction fees?¶

Our transaction fees vary depending on your business model and country. Typically, we offer competitive rates starting at 3.5% + $0.30 per successful transaction. View our pricing plan.

Does it support recurring subscriptions?¶

Yes, we provide robust tools for managing recurring payments and subscriptions, allowing you to automate your billing cycles easily. See recurring payments API.

Which payout countries are supported?¶

We support payouts to bank accounts in multiple countries across Latin America, the US, and Europe. See the list of supported payout countries.

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