Inkress · Commerce Platform
Every notable release, improvement, and security milestone across Inkress: payments, verification, storefronts, and the tools behind them.
From any order, send the customer a clean summary of what they bought with a secure link to finish paying. The email carries your store's logo, an itemised breakdown, and the exact amount due.
A new Abandoned tab in your orders list gathers checkouts that were started but never paid, so you can follow up and win the sale back.
Merchants get a branded email when a verification document is approved or needs another look, with a direct link to reupload.
Billing history now shows only the subscription it belongs to, the new “Charge Now” action bills a subscriber immediately without disturbing their regular schedule, and the next billing date is clearer.
Identity-document checks got a reliability pass: fewer stalled reviews, better handling of PDFs and photographed documents, and fewer legitimate documents wrongly rejected.
One comprehensive pass across orders, checkout sessions, and subscription renewals: nothing shows “paid” until the payment has fully completed, completed payments no longer linger as pending, delayed confirmations catch up automatically, and every confirmation matches its original charge.
Record bank-transfer or cash payments by topping up your Inkress wallet, keeping all your revenue in one place.
The trust-and-payments month: a new payments engine, platform-wide identity verification, mandatory 3-D Secure, and the production card launch.
The tabbed dashboard home is now a single attention-first stream surfacing setup steps, account health, and revenue together, so you see what needs attention first.
Multiple fraud signals now combine into a single decision at payment time, stopping high-risk transactions before they complete. Legitimate customers never notice it working.
Email checks were retuned so real customers on major providers are never wrongly flagged.
Subscribers can update their card on file from a secure link. A small temporary authorization verifies the new card before it takes over, with no support ticket needed.
Storefronts must pass verification (confirmed phone and email, logo, industry, and a reviewed business name) before listing publicly, so buyers can trust every listing. Unlisted merchants can still sell via payment links.
A public page explaining the layers of protection behind every Inkress payment.
The payments engine introduced on Jun 7 now powers every card payment on Inkress, recurring charges included.
Every order shows whether the buyer's email address is valid, invalid, or unknown, with a filter to match, plus in-dashboard guidance on keeping delivery rates healthy.
A post-launch reliability pass so recurring charges process and record correctly every cycle.
The first payment on a subscription establishes an authenticated agreement with the card networks, and every later renewal references that agreement, which means better approval rates and full network compliance for recurring billing.
Merchants must complete full identity verification (government ID, selfie, and liveness check included) before accepting any payment on Inkress, payment links included.
The consumer marketplace was rebuilt end to end: new look, better merchant and product cards, easier navigation, theme toggle, and a lighter checkout.
The card-entry form was redesigned to sit cleanly inside any checkout: clearer fields, better grouping, and light and dark support. Failed payments now explain exactly what went wrong and what to do next.
A Verify entry, front and center in the dashboard navigation, signs you straight into identity verification with no separate login.
Checkout status pages show full line items and fees, and the embedded card form sizes itself correctly.
Building on the platform-wide mandate: authentication results are now confirmed directly between Inkress and the card networks instead of relying on the shopper's browser, so fewer payments are lost after a successful authentication.
A clean ID scan with a strong match against your liveness check approves your first verification level immediately, with no waiting on manual review.
A saved business profile you can edit any time, an in-flow selfie step with instant quality feedback, resume-where-you-left-off after a failed attempt, and per-section navigation.
Fixed some multi-item orders displaying incompletely and valid payment links occasionally reporting “not found”.
Merchants who qualify for the platform's highest verification band can complete that step directly from their checklist.
A cleaner two-column app submission form, with listing changes reviewed without blocking your work.
New merchants follow a clear sequence (verify your email, complete a real test payment, verify your identity) with each step unlocking the next.
Those cards now complete the whole authentication as one consistent step.
Strong customer authentication rolled out end to end and became mandatory on every card transaction, with no merchant-level exemptions of any kind. Only a fully verified authentication result can complete a payment.
Merchants can choose a full-page card payment flow that lands shoppers on the order-status page after paying, alongside the embedded form.
Payment-link checkout rebuilt as a modern two-pane experience with a unified payment-to-receipt status page and an order-tracking timeline.
View and respond to chargeback cases directly from your dashboard: case details, deadlines, evidence uploads, and automatic matching of disputes to their transactions.
A payment retried after an authentication hiccup now processes cleanly.
Driver's licences verify against the national registry for a faster identity check.
Fixed charging a previously saved card, and the card form now works correctly when embedded on merchants' own sites.
The selfie step uses real face tracking that runs on your own device. Nothing is uploaded except the final confirmation clip, and iPhone photos are supported.
Payment processing rebuilt on a dedicated, security-first platform: card details are tokenized and sealed, never stored. Every transaction is recorded on a tamper-evident ledger, and card numbers are handled exclusively by an isolated, PCI-scoped environment where they exist only for the moment of processing.
The early tiered limits grew into a full verification model: the more identity and business evidence you provide, the higher your collection and payout limits.
Government IDs always receive human review before approval, documents pass automatic authenticity checks, and extracted identity data is encrypted at rest.
Nothing shown in the browser can approve a payment: every checkout is confirmed by Inkress servers, bound to the exact merchant, amount, and currency, before any money moves.
Invalid and throwaway email addresses are caught before an order is placed.
Bank accounts are now confirmed with a small transfer from your own account, a check that genuinely proves ownership. Unreadable document scans get instant feedback instead of a later rejection.
A dedicated system now powers identity verification, account protection, and payment-risk decisions across all of Inkress.
Developers see their published apps' logos, banners, and marketplace presentation in one place.
Install, subscriber, and revenue stats per app, webhook-secret rotation, and clean handle-based listing URLs.
A public directory of third-party Inkress apps with search, categories, and a page per app.
Additional automated-abuse defenses now shield all payment pages.
Verify a card with a hold instead of a sale, plus matching void and refund support. Ideal for card-on-file setups.
Webhooks for app-driven orders are signed with each app's own secret and delivered to all of that app's subscriptions.
Browse approved third-party developer apps, with org-level controls over connections.
Register apps with logos, verify contact details, enroll an authenticator, and follow a step-by-step integration guide.
External apps can now integrate with merchant accounts through the industry-standard authorization flow: a clear consent screen, scoped permissions, a Connected Apps page to review and revoke access, and self-service developer registration with Inkress approval.
Payments always settle into the wallet matching their currency, affected historical entries were corrected, and the wallet now always shows your true available balance.
Hold and manage balances per currency, with a dedicated ledger view per wallet and downloadable PDF statements. Multi-currency support began rolling out in late April.
Every ledger entry now appears in strict date order with a simpler fee presentation.
Payouts, reports, reconciliation, and exchange-rate updates now run on a faster, more reliable schedule.
An assistant in your dashboard that can look up your account and take actions like payout requests, later extended to WhatsApp with automatic phone-based sign-in.
Export your orders list to CSV directly from the dashboard.
Generate and bulk-download packing slips for physical orders.
Sign in with a passkey (including Face ID) or an authenticator app on top of email and password, from a new security settings page.
A new checkout experience: start a checkout, pay, and track the result on one hosted page, with strong authentication built into the flow.
Configure delivery and fulfillment per product; checkout collects and validates the shipping details it needs.
Signup and checkout forms gained bot-detection challenges.
Across the dashboard, checkout, and marketplace.
A public directory of merchant storefronts and products, with categories, customer reviews, and an installable mobile experience.
Bill subscriptions by usage, and offer trial periods with end-of-trial notifications.
Merchant webhooks went live: your systems get notified of orders and account events as they happen. Subscription charge processing was upgraded alongside.
Transaction limits now scale with your verification level.
Fewer steps between signing up and taking your first live payment.
Use your own domain for your storefront, plus early shipping-fee support.
Billing, notifications, and reconciliation moved onto dedicated processing infrastructure built for scale.
Launch your own hosted storefront on Inkress.
A combined round of billing fixes and payment-link improvements.
Core money-management arrives in the new dashboard.
Plans, subscribers, automatic recurring card charging each cycle (USD included), and payout accommodations for recurring revenue.
Reworked payout processing and merchant registration.
Corrected payout-plan and exchange-rate calculation issues.
Authorize-then-capture flows process dependably.
Payments use the intended currency even when none is explicitly specified.
Accept PayPal alongside cards.
Early subscriptions and payouts began taking shape.
The merchant dashboard and admin experience were rebuilt from the ground up, the foundation of today's Inkress.
Place a hold on a card and capture it when you're ready.
Full card processing launched with a hosted payment page.
The first payment-gateway connection went live, alongside OTP login and per-merchant account configuration.
Stripe as a payment-provider option.
Merchant billing plans introduced.
Clear per-transaction and per-payment-method fees, applied automatically during order processing.
The foundational platform launched: merchant accounts, organisations, stores, and role-based access.