For agents

Write more business.Move less paper.

Ainsworth is the ISO built for independent sales agents. Many sponsor banks live, one canonical application across the network, a real dashboard that names the next action on every deal. You bring the relationships. We handle everything around the application.

What you get

The features other ISOs talk about. Actually built.

Pillar 1

A dashboard that does the chasing for you

Active book and setup queue side by side. Every merchant shows a stage, a percentage, and a literal next-action sentence. You stop guessing what to do next on every deal.

Pillar 2

One application across our entire banking network

Merchant fills one form. We pick the bank. We generate the MPA. No re-typing for each underwriter. No PDF email chains. No copying numbers from one app to another.

Pillar 1

Your brand, not ours, in front of merchants

Upload your logo. Set your display name. We can put your branding on merchant invite emails and on the merchant-side dashboard. The merchant experiences your business, with our infrastructure underneath.

Pillar 3

QuickRefund baked in

Our sister chargeback platform reduces VAMP across the cohort. That means our banks raise our limits, which means we approve your harder deals faster. Other ISOs cannot match this.

Pillar 1

Push reminders without going through us

Merchant stuck on a doc upload? Send them a nudge from your dashboard. No support ticket, no waiting for an Ainsworth rep to email them. Your relationship, your tools.

Pillar 1

Same-day visibility on every submission

When a bank approves, declines, or asks for more info, you see it the moment we do. Days-processing counter on every active merchant. Status anxiety, gone.

Partner Intake API

Your CRM already has the merchant's data.Send it to us in one call.

ISOs, agents, and technology partners who already collect merchant information in their own systems can push applications to Ainsworth programmatically — instead of re-typing every deal. One call creates the merchant; we handle document review, underwriting preparation, bank placement, and e-signature, with application status visible to you the whole way.

Live

Create merchants in one call

Submit a merchant and primary contact from your own system. The merchant lands in your book exactly like a portal invite and gets their own portal login automatically. No re-keying.

Live

Track your pipeline programmatically

List your merchants and read per-merchant application status via the API. Automate on it — know the moment a file is submission-ready instead of asking.

Live

Keys you control

API keys are issued per partner organization and revocable instantly. Per-partner data isolation. Every action is audit-logged.

Rolling out

The full application, covered

The published spec covers the complete high-risk application — business identity, processing history, billing models, e-commerce, fulfillment, beneficial owners, banking, and disclosures — plus document upload and an automated status feed that flags document issues before they slow a file down.

Built for high-risk

The application model covers what high-risk underwriting actually asks for — beneficial ownership, processing history, billing models, fulfillment — not a generic lead form.

The merchant stays in control

Merchants personally e-sign through a hosted signature link and get their own portal access. You pre-fill the application. You never sign for them.

Serious about the data

REST and JSON, API-key authentication, rate-limited, fully audit-logged. Sensitive fields — SSN, EIN, banking — are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM and write-only through the API.

Talk to us about API access

Available now for approved partners. Full specification and field reference shared directly after onboarding.

Compliance pre-flight

Send cleaner deals. Get bigger limits.

High-risk underwriting dies on the merchant's website, not on the merchant. Disease claims where there should be structure-function claims. Missing disclaimers. Reconstitution kits sold next to the product. Most of it is mechanically fixable. The merchant just doesn't know.

Every Ainsworth agent gets a pre-flight tool that screens the merchant's site against a rubric built from 193 real FDA warning letters. Each finding cites the actual FDA quote and tells you exactly what to change. You ship the application clean. The bank approves faster. Your limits go up.

193
FDA warning letters
56
rubric-coded issues
2
verticals covered
Your merchant gets it too

Same tool, same findings, in their own dashboard. You stop being the bottleneck on every back-and-forth. The merchant cleans up what they can. You become the judgment layer: what is worth fighting, what to fix first, what the bank will actually flag.

/partner/screen · nutra-v1.03 findings
STOPA1
Free trial converting to auto-billing without clear disclosure
FTC's negative-option rule penalizes hidden recurring charges. Card networks reject this at underwriting. Put recurring terms above the order button.
FLAGB3
Disease-state claims on a structure/function product
DSHEA line. "Treats arthritis" needs to become "supports joint comfort." Specific copy edits, rubric-cited.
REQUIREDD2
Missing structure/function disclaimer
Baseline expectation. Underwriting catches this fast. One-line fix.
Sample output. Real findings cite the FDA letter by name.
Is this you

You belong here if…

  • You write 3 to 10 deals a month and want to write more.
  • You place high-risk merchants and want banks that say yes.
  • You are tired of PDF applications and email chains.
  • You want your name on the dashboard, not ours.
  • You believe the right tools are worth more than an extra 5 basis points.
Probably not us

Skip us if…

  • You shop ISOs by residual rate first and tooling second.
  • You write one deal a quarter and need a lot of hand-holding.
  • You prefer phone-and-paper to a software workflow.
  • You only place standard-risk retail, in person.

We would rather lose your application than waste your time. The pitch above is the pitch. If it doesn't fit, we are not the move.

Apply

Tell us about your book.

Mark Smith, our CCO, reads every application personally. Expect a response within one business day. If we are not a fit, we will tell you that and refer you somewhere honest.

1.
You apply
Form below. Two minutes if you know your numbers.
2.
We respond
Within one business day. Honest yes or no, with a reason.
3.
We onboard you
You get a partner login, your logo on the dashboard, your first merchant invite link.
4.
You write business
We handle everything else.

Agent application

Real questions. No marketing checkboxes.

Your info goes straight to Mark's inbox. No CRM, no nurture sequence.