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Elavon and Sage have renewed their partnership in the United Kingdom and Ireland, extending a long-running relationship between the payments provider and the business software group.
Under the new agreement, Sage customers will continue to have access to Elavon's payment services through integrated acquiring and gateway products. The aim is to simplify how businesses accept and manage payments as they grow.
The deal focuses on Sage 50 and Sage 200, two products aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. Users will be able to connect payment functions with accounting and finance workflows through Elavon's services.
Both companies presented the move as a response to an increasingly complex payments market for businesses expanding sales channels without adding administrative burden. Customers in the UK and Ireland are seeking payment systems that are straightforward to manage and reliable in day-to-day use.
Elavon is the merchant payments arm of U.S. Bank and operates across the United States, Europe and Canada. Sage provides accounting, financial, HR and payroll software for small and mid-sized businesses.
Customer focus
The partnership is designed to give Sage customers access to card acquiring and payment gateway services from a single provider. That approach can help businesses assess payment options more confidently as their operations become more complex.
It may also help customers broaden the ways they accept payments and add revenue channels. The companies highlighted security and fraud features within the payment offering, alongside tools embedded in Sage's environment.
For Sage, the renewed tie-up maintains a payments partner for established finance products at a time when software providers are under pressure to offer more connected systems. For Elavon, it preserves access to a large base of business customers already using Sage software to run finance and back-office processes.
Payments have become increasingly important for software companies serving smaller businesses, particularly as customers expect invoicing, settlement and reconciliation to sit more closely together in a single workflow. Partnerships between software vendors and payment specialists have become a common way to meet that demand without requiring software companies to build every function in-house.
Hemlata Narasimhan, European President, Merchant Payment Services at Elavon, said: "Businesses today face an increasingly complex payments landscape, and knowing where to start can be difficult. Through our renewed partnership with Sage, we're looking to remove some of that complexity to make it easier for their customers to get up and running with access to our trusted payment solutions that can help them scale with confidence."
Sage products
Sage said the continuing relationship is particularly relevant for customers using Sage 50 and Sage 200 who want payment processes that fit more closely with daily operations. It described the agreement as part of its effort to keep payment tools connected to the finance systems many smaller firms already rely on.
Juha Harkonen, VP Strategic Partnerships at Sage, said: "Sage 50 and Sage 200 customers rely on connected payment experiences that are simple to use and easy to manage. Our continued relationship with Elavon helps ensure customers using these solutions can access trusted payment capabilities that support efficient day-to-day operations and business growth."
The renewed partnership covers the UK and Ireland, where both companies already have an established presence among business customers. It maintains a model in which Sage provides the software layer for finance management while Elavon supplies the payment processing infrastructure behind those transactions.
That arrangement reflects a broader trend in business software, with vendors trying to reduce the number of separate tools customers must manage. In practice, that often means linking accounting, payment acceptance and reporting functions more closely, especially for smaller firms with limited internal finance and IT resources.
Elavon said its services are used by businesses ranging from small companies to large international groups, while Sage serves millions of small and mid-sized businesses through its software and partner network. The renewal keeps those customer bases connected through a payments link intended to make routine operations easier to manage.