Smart Payment Technologies has announced a strategic partnership with Castles Technology, a global leader in payment hardware, to significantly enhance its flagship G8 payment gateway.
The collaboration integrates Castles Technology’s advanced, device-agnostic hardware platforms with Smart Payment Technologies’ sophisticated software ecosystem, creating a more robust and flexible payment processing solution.
The combined offering is PCI P2PE-certified, ensuring high security standards while allowing merchants and independent software vendors (ISVs) to deploy scalable systems across diverse environments.
Early rollouts will target high-demand sectors such as electric vehicle charging, unattended kiosks, hospitality, entertainment, and retail, industries where reliable, adaptable payment systems are essential.
The partnership aims to help businesses minimise failed transactions, enable offline payments during network disruptions, and expand more confidently across international borders. By pairing Castles Technology’s extensive global hardware portfolio with the G8 gateway’s software capabilities, companies can benefit from greater resilience and efficiency.
The G8 platform itself offers a range of merchant-friendly features, including flexible architecture that adapts to varied use cases, streamlined ISV onboarding, automatic transaction retries to boost acceptance rates, white-label branding options, and built-in multi-currency support for global operations.
Jean-Philippe Niedergang, Acting Group CEO and CEO for EMEA, Pacific, and LATAM at Castles Technology, welcomed the alliance: “Our agnostic approach allows us to serve a broad spectrum of sectors and requirements. Partnering with Smart Payment Technologies extends that flexibility through a powerful gateway that is particularly well-suited to the UK and international markets.”
