Former JP Morgan Exec Launches Refunds-as-a-Service Startup

• TodayPay, a brand new “refunds-as-a-service” startup, has launched out of stealth mode this week.
• TodayPay is based by former JP Morgan govt Jeremy Balkin.
• TodayPay’s expertise decouples the refund from the return logistics to pay prospects their refund immediately of their TodayPay cell pockets.

Jeremy Balkin is leveraging his experience within the monetary providers trade to launch a brand new fintech. The previous JP Morgan govt introduced this week that TodayPay, what he’s calling a “refunds-as-a-service startup,” has exited stealth mode.

At its core, TodayPay helps retailers give their prospects on the spot refunds after they provoke a return. The service additionally affords the shopper a number of choices of how they need to obtain the funds as a substitute of merely defaulting again to the unique cost technique.

“I constructed TodayPay as a result of I’ve seen firsthand how the pace of a cost can change anyone’s life,” mentioned TodayPay Founder Balkin. “There’s over a trillion {dollars} of worth exchanged yearly within the type of refunds, but there’s been nearly zero innovation bettering the refund buyer expertise.”

TodayPay affords 4 fundamental merchandise:

• Higher Refund, an API that decouples the refund from the return logistics to pay prospects their refund immediately, whereas permitting retailers seven days to pay.
• Refund Now Pay Later, which gives retailers with a pre-qualified credit score line of as much as $300,000 with as much as 90 days to repay the funds. TodayPay takes on the chance of the return in order that the service provider can concentrate on their working capital.
• instarefund, a shopper going through widget embedded right into a service provider’s present return circulate that helps them management the shopper expertise.
• Administration Portal, a merchant-facing dashboard to assist companies handle all transactions in a single place and automate refunds and returns administration.

These merchandise could enhance the returns expertise for retailers, nevertheless, TodayPay provides a bit extra friction onto the shopper expertise. That’s as a result of prospects obtain their refund cost in a TodayPay digital pockets. Whereas the digital pockets is already arrange through the shopper’s telephone quantity, they nonetheless need to log into their TodayPay digital pockets to decide on how they’d prefer to redeem their refund– into their checking account, onto their debit card, or through a present card.

Whereas TodayPay was in stealth mode, it constructed relationships to be built-in into Shopify, BigCommerce, Woo, and Magento. The corporate is backed by Soma Capital, and is working with Astra, Marqeta, and Visa for the digital pockets piece.

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