Self-service is a cornerstone of modern software integration. For Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms looking to embed payments and start generating revenue from their transaction flows, payment partners that offer self-service integration and sign-up make the process easier and more flexible by allowing teams to explore, test and launch on their own terms.
Let’s explore how self-serve payment integration enables you to start processing payments and earning revenue faster by:
- Accelerating the build and launch of your software’s payment integration
- Eliminating the time and friction involved in the traditional sign-up process
- Reducing friction and bottlenecks and speeding up time-to-value
- Improving user-friendliness — not just upfront, but throughout the entire payment lifecycle
1: Start Building Immediately
With self-serve integration, your development team can start exploring and building in as little as a few minutes after a simple sign-up. Application program interface (API) keys can be generated immediately, and developers can dig into self-serve integration options like no-code solutions and embeddable components.
If your payments partner offers a self-serve sandbox environment, your team can explore and prototype in tandem, using real code, without commitment or cost. It’s a hands-on way to get familiar with available solutions and determine how they can be integrated into your software. That’s something documentation and sales demos can’t really do.
2: Shortened Time-to-Processing
Building your tech integration is just one part of the embedded payments equation. You also need the backend infrastructure that lets your users actually start processing — things like onboarding, underwriting, merchant account setup and more.
Traditionally, becoming a payments reseller involves a long sales cycle, meetings with partners and plenty of back-and-forth. With self-serve integration, that friction disappears. When you’re ready, simply sign up, choose your plan and pricing, and get instant access to everything you need to start submitting users for payment processing. Key operational hurdles (like contracts, compliance, onboarding and underwriting) are handled for you.
The self-serve sign-up process offers two big time-to-value advantages:
- If your software already supports payments, you can start onboarding merchants and generating revenue almost immediately
- If you’re still building your integration, you don’t have to wait to start earning. Just launch with a fully turnkey no-code option, then transition seamlessly to low-code or custom deployments as your offering evolves
3: Wider User-Friendliness
Self-service integration allows you to move forward without unnecessary or inconvenient interactions. That means minimizing friction at every step — which is why self-serve systems are designed to be intuitive, reliable and hard to break.
Payments technology is no exception. When you choose a self-serve payments provider, you can trust that the platform has been built to be both robust and user-friendly so you can focus on growing your business, not troubleshooting tools.
Low integration friction, high reliability and minimal maintenance create a smoother experience for both you and your users. The result: less strain on your development, sales and support teams, lower operational costs and more profitable payments.
Faster, Easier Payments Integration
NMI offers a self-serve payments experience, designed with developers in mind. It gives your team instant, hands-on access to our developer sandbox — no contracts, no commitments. Explore our APIs, pre-built SDKs and modular no-code/low-code tools at your own pace. It’s a frictionless way to embed payments into your platform and start monetizing your transaction flow. Create an account for free and start exploring our full suite of NMI Payments features.
If you’re ready to find out more, sign up for an account and start exploring our dynamic self-serve portal today.