For merchants

Declined elsewhere?We've placed merchants like you.

We work in the categories most ISOs walk away from. Nutra. Peptides. Telehealth. Digital goods. The verticals card networks call "high-risk" and your last processor called "not a fit." If your business is real, you have revenue, and your website can survive underwriting, we can usually find a bank that says yes.

What you get

Access. Experience. Outcome.

Three things that separate Ainsworth from the processor that just terminated you. Not adjectives. Specifics.

01
Access

We approve where others decline.

Multiple sponsor banks in our network, each with different appetites. Decades of underwriting relationships. When other ISOs send the same application to one bank and call it a day, we route it to the bank most likely to say yes. If you've been declined elsewhere, that's often a routing problem, not a fitness problem. And when it is a fitness problem, our compliance pre-flight tool gives your site a health check against the actual issues banks flag, so you can fix them before underwriting ever sees the application.

See the compliance pre-flight
02
Experience

One application. Real visibility.

Fill out one canonical application that works across every bank we partner with. Track your status in your own merchant dashboard. Get a clean checklist of what's missing. E-sign in the portal. No PDF chains in your inbox. No calling for updates.

03
Outcome

Cleaner accounts. Bigger limits.

Our sister platform QuickRefund intercepts disputes before they become chargebacks. Your VAMP ratio stays clean. Your bank raises your limits over time. Your account stays open while others get terminated. The math compounds across the relationship.

Compliance pre-flight

Self-review your site before the bank sees it.

Most high-risk applications die on the merchant's website, not on the merchant. Disease claims that should be structure-function claims. Missing disclaimers. Inventory you didn't realize was a problem. The underwriter sees it, the deal stalls or declines, and most of the time you never get told what to fix.

When you're in our portal, you get the same compliance pre-flight tool your agent has. Built on 193 real FDA warning letters. Each finding shows you the FDA quote and tells you exactly what to change. Run it as many times as you want. The cleaner you ship, the faster you approve, the more capacity the bank gives you.

193
FDA warning letters
56
rubric-coded issues
2
verticals covered
Why it matters for you
  • Higher approval odds. Clean sites get yes, messy sites stall.
  • Bigger processing limits. The bank rewards merchants whose risk profile they can defend.
  • Account longevity. Sites that pass underwriting clean also survive ongoing card-network reviews.
/dashboard/screen · peptide-v1.03 findings
STOPA1
Bacteriostatic water sold alongside peptides
Treats the peptide as injectable. FDA flags this consistently. Move to a separate domain or remove from the cart.
FLAGB3
Disease-state claims on a structure/function product
DSHEA line. "Treats arthritis" becomes "supports joint comfort." The rubric shows you the specific copy edits.
REQUIREDD2
Missing structure/function disclaimer
Baseline expectation. One line of copy. Fixed in five minutes.
What you see in your dashboard. Re-run as often as you like.
How it goes

What happens when you apply.

  1. 1
    You

    Apply directly

    Form below. Five minutes if you have your basics ready: legal name, processing volume, what you sell, which processor terminated you (if any).

  2. 2
    Ainsworth

    We review and match

    Mark or Jeff personally reads your application. We check fit against our current bank appetites, flag anything on your website that will trip underwriting, and tell you straight whether we can place you.

  3. 3
    You

    Send what we need

    If we can place you, we send a portal login. Upload documents through a real interface. Sign your MPA in the portal. No PDF emails.

  4. 4
    Bank

    Underwrites and approves

    We submit clean. You watch the status move in the portal. Most clean applications complete in days, not weeks.

Apply

Tell us about your business.

Mark or Jeff reads every direct application personally. Expect a response within one business day. If we can't place you, we will tell you that and tell you what specifically would change the answer.

Already working with one of our agents?Use the link they sent you instead. It tags the application to their book so they get credit and they stay in the loop on status.

Direct merchant application

Concrete questions. We use the answers to figure out where you fit.

Goes straight to Mark and Jeff. Reviewed within one business day.