Bolt for platforms

One-click checkout for every seller on your platform.

With Bolt Connect, your platform gets embedded checkout, seller onboarding and payouts in one integration, on your own processor or Bolt Payments, at a wholesale buy rate. You set what sellers pay.

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How it fits

  1. 1BuyerPays in one click
  2. 2Your platformSets the seller rate
  3. 3SellerKeeps the customer

Bolt Connect

  • Your processor or Bolt Payments
  • Wholesale buy rate
  • Bolt Connect
  • Wholesale buy rate
  • Seller onboarding
  • Payouts
  • Transfers API (beta)
  • Total Fraud Protection
  • 100M+ shoppers
  • Your processor or Bolt Payments

Pick your platform

One integration, four kinds of platform

  • Marketplaces

    Onboard sellers, split orders and pay out. The Transfers API, in beta, lets you pay sellers on your own schedule.

  • Commerce platforms

    Give your merchants a one-click answer to Shop Pay, without Shopify Payments.

  • Creator and digital-goods platforms

    One-click purchases from a link, for downloads, content, memberships and subscriptions.

    Bolt for Digital Goods

  • Vertical SaaS

    Add payments to your product without becoming a payments company.

Why Bolt Connect

Your rate. Your customers. Your stack.

  • Buy rate

    Wholesale pricing

    Bolt charges you a buy rate. You set the seller rate and keep the difference.

    See Bolt Connect
  • 100M+

    A network your buyers are already in

    Over 100 million shoppers have a Bolt account. Bolt account holders convert 50% better than guest shoppers.

  • Handled

    Onboarding and compliance

    Bolt onboards each seller under your platform.

  • Yours

    Sellers keep their customers

    The seller keeps the shopper’s name, email and other information as its own customer.

Keep your stack

Have your own payments stack? Keep it.

One-click checkout that works with your payment stack. Bolt Connect runs on your own processor or on Bolt Payments, and on your own processor it is available internationally.

  • Embeddable Checkout and Hosted Checkout work with third-party processors.
  • Fraud indemnification is available on third-party processors.
  • Your platform and your sellers keep the customer relationship.
See supported processors

For developers

One integration, in your stack

  • Marketplace Connect quickstart

    Onboard a seller and take a payment in a sandbox.

    Open the docs

  • Bolt Connect SDK

    Seller onboarding and checkout helpers, with TypeScript definitions.

    Open the docs

  • Transfers API (beta)

    Pay sellers on your own schedule, independently of any order.

    Open the docs

Standalone add-ons

Use our fraud protection and tokenizer on their own

Not ready for the full checkout? Total Fraud Protection and the Bolt Tokenizer are both available as standalone add-ons, on your own processor.

  • Bolt Total Fraud Protection

    Fraud chargebacks covered

    Bolt covers 100% of fraud chargebacks on approved orders. It works with Bolt Payments or your own third-party processor.

    Qualifying transactions, under your Bolt agreement.

    Explore Bolt Fraud

  • Bolt Tokenizer

    Tokenization as a Service

    Bolt tokenizes cards in its PCI-compliant environment and sends the authorization to the processor you already use, with your existing credentials.

    Read the Tokenizer guide

The proof

What one-click did for REVOLVE and FWRD

Results from brands running Bolt checkout.

REVOLVE10%lift in checkout conversion4%higher revenueRead the case studyFWRD9.92%conversion liftMobile A/B test, Nov–Dec 2023Read the case study

FAQ

Questions partners ask

What is Bolt Connect?

Bolt Connect is Bolt’s offering for platforms and marketplaces. It combines embedded one-click checkout, seller onboarding and payouts in one integration, at a wholesale buy rate.

Who sets seller pricing?

You do. Bolt charges your platform a buy rate and sets a ceiling. You choose what your sellers pay, up to that ceiling.

Do we need Bolt Payments?

No. Bolt Connect runs on your own processor or on Bolt Payments.

Does it work for digital goods and subscriptions?

Yes. Bolt supports one-time purchases and recurring plans for downloads, paid content and memberships.

Is it available outside the US?

When your platform keeps its own processor, it is available internationally. Bolt Payments is for US merchants.

Bring one-click checkout to your platform.

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