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A letter from our CTO

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, exports, and manual processes that 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 connecting payments to the system of record and automating the parts that shouldn’t need human attention.

When it’s working properly, payment records carry the right context. Reconciliation gets cleaner. Exceptions surface sooner. Your team spends less time cleaning up transactions and more time reviewing real issues.

Nothing magical happens. Things just stop breaking.

That’s the bar we care about.

Alessandro “Alex” Baretta

Co-founder & CTO, Anchorbase

About Anchorbase

Payments should move your business forward—not create more work.

Anchorbase is an integrated payments and workflow automation platform that connects modern payment rails to the software mid-market businesses already use.

Our mission is simple: eliminate drudgery. We remove the repetitive work between an invoice being created, a payment being collected, and the right information making its way through the operational workflow.

Keep the system you already use. Add modern payment collection, reconciliation, and operational follow-through around it.

What Anchorbase does

One payment workflow, with the context intact.

Collect the payment, preserve the business context, and reduce the manual work required to reconcile and report on it.

01

Integrated payment collection

Collect card-present, card-not-present, payment-link, e-invoice, and supported bank-account payments from the workflows your teams already use.

A simpler customer experience with fewer disconnected terminals, portals, and spreadsheets.

02

Payment reconciliation

Connect payment activity to the operational context behind it: the customer, invoice or repair order, payment request, approval, deposit, and accounting workflow.

Routine transactions move forward while exceptions receive human attention.

03

Accounts receivable automation

Create and send payment requests, track status, follow completed transactions, and preserve the context finance teams need to close the receivable.

More volume without the same increase in administrative work.

04

Payment cost optimization

Use transparent processing and supported surcharge, dual-pricing, ACH, or EFT configurations where permitted and appropriate for the merchant.

Recommendations based on actual processing statements and transaction mix—not blanket savings promises.

05

Workflow automation around existing systems

Bring system-of-record context into each transaction so payment activity can be understood, searched, reconciled, routed, and acted on.

The software stays. The repetitive work around it changes.

What makes us different

The software stays. The work changes.

Anchorbase is designed for businesses that need more flexibility around systems that are difficult, expensive, or impractical to replace.

01

Keep the system you already use

Anchorbase works alongside your ERP, DMS, CRM, POS, or accounting system. It does not force a migration just to modernize payments.

02

Automate the work around the transaction

The product is built around what happens before and after payment: context, routing, reconciliation, reporting, and exception handling.

03

Align software value with payment activity

The automation layer carries no platform, setup, or per-seat fee. Anchorbase is funded through configured payment-processing activity.

Who uses Anchorbase

Built for teams doing too much payment work by hand.

  • Automotive dealerships and dealer groups across service, parts, sales, finance, and accounting
  • Multi-location merchants that need consistent terminal, access, and reconciliation workflows
  • Mid-market businesses with meaningful payment volume and recurring receivables
  • Finance teams matching batches, deposits, invoices, fees, and ledger activity across systems
  • Businesses operating on legacy or fragmented ERP, DMS, POS, CRM, and accounting software
  • Medical, dental, veterinary, home-services, trades, distribution, and manufacturing teams
  • ISOs, merchant-services partners, and vertical-software providers extending payment automation

The team behind Anchorbase

Operators building for operators.

The founding team brings decades of experience across payment infrastructure, merchant services, enterprise software, financial products, and workflow automation.

Doug van Spronsen, Co-founder & CEO

Doug van Spronsen

Co-founder & CEO

Doug brings more than two decades of experience across payments, financial technology, enterprise sales, and vertical software. He co-founded Versett and started Anchorbase around a practical belief: mid-market businesses deserve enterprise-grade automation without a massive software replacement.

Oren Wigoda, Co-founder

Oren Wigoda

Co-founder

Oren has spent more than a decade helping businesses understand and improve how they accept payments. His merchant-services background keeps Anchorbase grounded in processing economics, operational constraints, and what merchants experience after a contract is signed.

Michael Men, Co-founder & COO

Michael Men

Co-founder & COO

Michael brings experience in merchant services, payment operations, and building businesses around complex financial workflows. His focus is turning payment complexity into something customers can deploy, understand, and operate.

Craig Speers, Co-founder

Craig Speers

Co-founder

Craig brings experience across merchant services, payments distribution, finance, and commercial strategy. As a co-founder of Payment Experts, he worked closely with businesses evaluating how payment economics affect day-to-day operations.

Alessandro “Alex” Baretta, Co-founder & CTO

Alessandro “Alex” Baretta

Co-founder & CTO

Alex has more than 15 years of experience building payment infrastructure and financial systems. He leads Anchorbase’s technical work with a focus on reliability, error handling, and infrastructure that can operate inside real financial workflows.

How Anchorbase works

Start with the real workflow.

Every implementation begins with how money and information move through the business today—not a generic software checklist.

  1. 01

    Understand the workflow

    We review the systems, payment channels, processing statements, reconciliation process, exceptions, and places where employees are doing integration work by hand.

  2. 02

    Configure payments and access

    We configure the merchant organization, locations, users, roles, payment methods, terminals, processing infrastructure, and supported pricing model.

  3. 03

    Map the operational context

    We map payment activity to the customer, invoice or repair order, location, request, approval, deposit, and accounting workflow—and identify exceptions for review.

  4. 04

    Test and launch

    We test supported transactions, receipts, terminals, permissions, pricing behaviour, payment requests, audit records, and reconciliation steps before launch.

  5. 05

    Support and optimize

    Customers work with Anchorbase across customer success, payment operations, and technical support to improve the workflow as requirements evolve.

Key facts

Anchorbase at a glance.

A concise view of the company, commercial model, and supported workflow categories.

Company
Anchorbase Inc.
Founded
2026
Ownership
Privately Held. Backed by TTV Capital and Cambrian Ventures.
Core offering
Integrated payments, accounts-receivable automation, workflow automation, and payment reconciliation around existing systems of record
Pricing model
$0 platform fee, $0 setup fee, and no per-seat subscription. Processing terms depend on volume, payment methods, card mix, geography, and acquiring requirements.
Platform terms
No long-term platform contract, seat commitment, or platform minimum. Processing or acquiring-partner requirements may apply and are disclosed during onboarding.
Payment workflows
Card-present and card-not-present payments, terminals, hosted payment pages, payment links, e-invoices, supported bank payments, audit visibility, and reconciliation workflows
Website
anchorbase.com

Frequently asked questions

The practical questions.

What does Anchorbase do in plain English?+

Anchorbase connects the software a business already uses to modern payment workflows. It helps collect payments, preserve the context behind each transaction, and reduce the manual work required to reconcile and report on them.

Does Anchorbase replace our ERP, DMS, CRM, or accounting system?+

No. The system of record stays in place. Anchorbase works around existing systems and brings their operational context into the payment workflow.

Is Anchorbase a payment processor?+

Anchorbase is an integrated payments and workflow automation platform. It connects merchants to configured gateway, processor, terminal, and bank-payment infrastructure; it is not a bank or financial institution.

What payment methods does Anchorbase support?+

Anchorbase supports configured card-present terminals, card-not-present payments, payment links, e-invoices, hosted payment pages, and ACH or EFT where supported. Surcharge and dual-pricing programs are available where permitted and properly configured.

How does Anchorbase help with reconciliation?+

Anchorbase ties payment activity to information such as the customer, invoice or repair order, payment request, deposit, approval, and accounting workflow. This reduces manual matching and surfaces exceptions that need attention.

How much does Anchorbase cost?+

Anchorbase currently publishes $0 platform fees, $0 setup fees, and no per-seat subscription. Final processing pricing depends on the merchant’s volume, transaction types, card mix, geography, and acquiring requirements.

How long does implementation take?+

Timing depends on underwriting, the systems involved, terminal requirements, locations, and workflow complexity. Standard supported configurations can launch quickly, while custom or multi-location workflows are scoped with the customer.

Who is Anchorbase best for?+

Anchorbase is best suited to mid-market businesses with meaningful payment volume, recurring receivables, fragmented systems, and employees doing too much payment or reconciliation work by hand. The current beachhead is automotive dealerships and dealer groups.

Does Anchorbase use AI?+

Anchorbase uses automation and AI-assisted capabilities to reduce repetitive payment and back-office work. Human review remains important for exceptions, financial controls, merchant decisions, and workflows where records do not agree.