London, 25.06.2026, Aevi, leading provider of in-person payment orchestration, has been recognized as Best Payment Orchestration Solution at the PayTech Awards 2026, hosted by FinTech Futures. The award celebrates innovation, impact, and leadership across the global payments industry and acknowledges Aevi's contribution to simplifying and scaling modern in-person commerce.
Key Insights
Aevi’s award signals how payment orchestration has moved from a technical capability to a critical enabler of modern in-person commerce.
Customer expectations, not internal systems, are now shaping payment strategies, forcing businesses to prioritise flexibility and experience over operational simplicity.
Orchestration allows businesses to connect fragmented payment environments without replacing existing infrastructure, enabling continuous evolution.
The scale of Aevi’s platform highlights real-world impact, with hundreds of thousands of endpoints and billions of transactions supported with high uptime.
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A shift driven by customer expectations
Behind this recognition lies a much bigger industry shift: customers, not technology vendors, are defining the future of payments.
Consumers now expect their preferred payment methods, faster checkouts, integrated loyalty experiences, local payment options, and seamless movement between digital and physical channels. Businesses can no longer optimize purely for operational simplicity. They must continuously adapt to changing customer expectations.
Consumers expect choice, speed, and consistency wherever they pay. When those expectations aren't met, they move on. Orchestration is what allows businesses to keep up with that reality without adding more complexity.
Sarah Koch, Director of Marketing & Communications, Aevi
Why orchestration is becoming essential
This growing complexity is driving the need for orchestration.
Payment orchestration acts as a coordination layer that connects devices, acquirers, processors, applications, and value-added services into one operating model. Rather than replacing existing infrastructure, orchestration enables businesses to preserve what already works while gaining the flexibility to evolve over time.
Solving fragmentation in in-person payments
Aevi focuses on one of the most fragmented areas of commerce: in-person payments.
Merchants often manage multiple terminals, acquirers, processors, countries, payment methods, and compliance requirements simultaneously. Aevi helps connect these fragmented environments into one coordinated ecosystem.
Proven scale and reliability
Today, Aevi powers more than 270,000 connected endpoints, processes over 3.1 billion payment transactions, and delivers uptime exceeding 99.99% for its customers.
This recognition belongs to our customers, partners, and every Aevi'ator who believes that the future of payments should be open. We're proud to help businesses turn payments from a source of complexity into a foundation for growth.
Sarah Koch, Director of Marketing & Communications, Aevi
If you're looking to rethink your in-person payments strategy, explore orchestration, or prepare for the next generation of customer experiences, we'd love to connect, whether that's at an upcoming industry event or through a conversation with our team.
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