Marketplace building blocks

Hold the buyer's money until the work is done

Take payment at checkout, hold it while the order ships or the job gets approved, then release it to the seller. Escrow-style protection for both sides — without the 90-day limits that break on Stripe Connect.

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The problem

Holding funds until delivery shouldn't mean gluing three tools together

A service or goods marketplace needs to hold a buyer's money until the work is approved — but Escrow.com forces an offsite checkout, Stripe Connect can't hold funds past 90 days, and card authorizations expire in a week. So you either take the fraud risk of paying sellers early, or you build a reserve ledger by hand.

Order · held in escrow
Buyer paidheld
$1,200
Work delivered
Confirmed
Released to seller
$1,140
Platform fee kept
$60
What Fynex runs

How held funds run on Fynex

Take the money now, move it only when the conditions are met.

01

Take payment, hold the funds

The buyer pays at checkout and the money is held safely on our licence — not on your balance sheet, not stuck in a card authorization that expires.

02

Release on your condition

Release when the order ships, the job is approved, or a milestone is hit — in full or in part — by rule or with one call. No arbitrary 90-day ceiling.

03

Refund cleanly if it falls through

If the work isn't delivered, refund the buyer from the held balance — no clawback from a seller who's already been paid.

How we compare

The same job, with the leaks closed

Point tools solve part of it. Fynex runs the whole thing on one platform.

The problem
Other platforms
!Hold funds until the work is approved
Connect caps holds at ~90 days; card auths expire in ~7.
Hold on your condition, with no fixed time cap.
!Keep the buyer on your site
Escrow.com bounces them to an offsite checkout.
Escrow-style hold inside your own flow.
!Who carries the funds while held
Sits on your balance sheet or the processor's.
Safeguarded on our FCA-authorised EMI licence.
!Refund if it falls through
Claw back money from a seller already paid.
Refund straight from the held balance.
FAQ

Questions, answered

Yes. Fynex holds a buyer's payment after checkout and releases it to the seller only when your condition is met — the order ships, the job is approved, or a milestone is reached. Funds are safeguarded on our FCA-authorised EMI licence while held, so neither side carries the risk, and there's no arbitrary time cap on how long you can hold.
Stripe Connect can't hold funds beyond roughly 90 days, and a card authorization hold expires in about a week — both too short for delivery-based or milestone work. Because Fynex holds the money on its own e-money licence rather than as a card authorization, you can hold until your release condition is met, then pay out.
On your trigger. Release when the order is delivered, the buyer approves the work, or a milestone completes — in full or in part, by rule or with a single API call. You define what 'done' means for your marketplace.
Because the money is still held rather than already paid out, you refund the buyer directly from the held balance — no chasing a seller who's already been paid, and no negative-balance clawback on your platform.

Find what you're leaking, for free

Send us your setup. We run a free diagnostic and show you what your payment stack costs you today.

One recent diagnostic found €2M in hidden fees across 10 processors for a proptech client.
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Compliance, handled

The trust layer most software can't offer

We can be your Merchant of Record and hold the funds. Most tools can't, because they don't hold the licence.

FCA-authorised EMI

An e-money institution via Fondy. We can hold and move your funds.

Licence
E-money institution
FCA
Client funds
Safeguarded

PCI DSS Level 1

The highest card-data security standard, on by default.

Card data
PCI DSS
Level 1
Encryption
On by default

Audit logs

Every movement traceable and ready for review.

Activity
Payout · $23,84714:02:11
Logged
Split · ORD-2024-00114:02:09
Logged

Built-in KYC / KYB

The switch that turns the business on.

Verification
KYB · Northwind Labs Inc
Approved
KYC · J. Whitfield
Approved
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Protect both sides. Hold the money until the work is done

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The AI finance layer for platforms and operators. It runs the money chain and keeps more of it in your business. One platform instead of a dozen.

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