The best online payment technology for EBT transactions
We’ve built an exceptional product
Forage is the only TPP to allow your customers purchase their groceries with WIC and Double Up Food Bucks online as well as SNAP. Forage integrates all EBTs with a merchant's existing operations, and can securely capture a cardholder’s pin.
Features:
flexible custom API for any size company
secure EBT PIN entry
PCI DSS Compliant
white labeled for seamless customer experience
We’re here to help you
Forage is your one point of contact for both regulatory and technology needs. In order for merchants to accept EBT payments online they have to go through a lengthy approval process through the USDA.
We work with the government to guide our partners through compliancy regulations at both the state and federal levels. With Forage, merchants see their approval time improve by 200%.
We’ll get you approved faster than anyone else
Forage launches customers in one third of the time compared to our competitors.
We’re connecting an overlooked community to better services, and businesses to an immense audience.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is a federal program helping more than 42 million Americans afford to put food on the table. It is the largest program working to fight hunger in America. Follow this link for more information.
Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) is the system used to transfer government benefits, including SNAP and TANF. The Forage API can be embedded into your site and used to accept EBT cards. Follow this link for more information.
The USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) oversees SNAP. Thus, they are the gatekeepers to any entity attempting to transact SNAP benefits, both in brick and mortar stores and online. In order to accept SNAP benefits as a form of payment, you as the merchant must become FNS certified and be given an FNS number. If you are not currently a SNAP authorized merchant, follow this link for more information.
