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Why we built this

Hi Everyone.

I'm Alex, one of the founders here.

We built Anchorbase because we kept running into the same problem everywhere we looked.

We have spent years working in payments. Every industry has the same reality. Payments live in one place. Your ERP or DMS lives somewhere else. And someone on your team is stuck in the middle trying to make it all line up.

Most days that means pulling reports, matching transactions, fixing edge cases, chasing down differences, and explaining why yesterday's deposit doesn't quite match what's in the system. It becomes normal. People just accept it as part of the job.

We never really bought that.

What we saw was that the tools weren't designed to work together. So operators end up doing the integration themselves. With spreadsheets. With exports. With manual processes that slowly get more brittle as volume grows.

Eventually you hire more people just to keep up. Not because the business is more complex, but because the plumbing is bad.

Anchorbase exists to fix that plumbing.

We're not trying to replace the systems you already use. We're not trying to give you another dashboard to monitor. We're just connecting payments directly into the system of record and automating the parts that shouldn't need human attention.

When it's working properly, invoices update on their own. Deposits reconcile cleanly. Exceptions surface immediately instead of days later. Your team stops spending hours cleaning up transactions and starts spending time reviewing real issues.

Nothing magical happens. Things just stop breaking.

That's the bar we care about.

Alessandro Baretta

Alessandro (Alex) Baretta

CTO, Anchorbase

Leadership

Built by operators who've spent their careers in payments and financial software.

DV

Doug Van Spronsen

CEO

20+ years in payments and fintech. Previously led enterprise sales at major payment processors. Deep expertise in vertical software and embedded finance.

MH

Michael Hyde

President

15+ years building and scaling payment operations. Expert in merchant services, ISV partnerships, and go-to-market strategy for financial products.

Alessandro Baretta

Alessandro Baretta

CTO

15+ years building payment infrastructure and financial systems. Previously architected payment platforms processing billions in annual volume.

What we believe

The principles that guide how we build and who we build for.

Reliability over features

A payment system that works 99% of the time isn't good enough. We obsess over edge cases, error handling, and graceful degradation. Boring infrastructure done right.

Automation, not dashboards

The best payment integration is one you never have to look at. We measure success by how little attention your team needs to spend on reconciliation.

Work with what you have

We don't ask you to rip out your ERP or change your workflow. We integrate into your existing systems because that's where your data already lives.

Aligned incentives

No platform fees. We make money when you process payments, which means we're incentivized to keep you live, keep you growing, and keep your costs down.

50+

Years combined experience

$B+

Payment volume architected

100%

Founder-led & bootstrapped

0

Platform fees

See it in action

The integration playbook for your system shows the actual setup and the workflows we automate. No sales fluff.