Questions merchants ask before they wire the cascade.

No. Payments go directly from your customer to your own gateway account. We are middleware, not a PSP. Payouts settle from your gateway to your bank on the gateway's normal schedule.

No. Card data is tokenized directly by your gateway. CascadeCheckout never sees a raw PAN.

That is a merchant-to-gateway issue. We can help you cascade to a second MID while it clears, but we cannot un-freeze funds held by your acquirer. This is why running more than one MID is the point.

Yes. Your Shopify store, products, apps, discount codes and fulfillment all keep working. You connect your own gateway through CascadeCheckout and keep selling from the same store.

Yes. Orders sync back to Shopify tagged [cascade] so your fulfillment, apps and reports keep working like before.

Yes. Discount codes apply on the CascadeCheckout page and pass through to the Shopify order record.

No. Any paid Shopify plan works. You do not need Shopify Plus.

Almost any gateway with an API — Stripe, Mollie, Adyen, NMI, Nuvei, Airwallex, Checkout.com, PXP, Whop, Coinbase Commerce, Trustly, MyFatoorah, custom HTTP endpoints. If it has a payment intent + capture endpoint, we can wire it.

That is the cascade. You connect more than one gateway. If the first fails, throttles or bans, the next one captures inside 400ms. The customer never sees an error.

Starter is single-route. Growth supports up to four MIDs. Scale is unlimited.

Wallet routing depends on the gateway. Where the gateway supports wallet capture, the cascade continues to work. Native Shopify Payments express buttons are suppressed on the checkout page so buyers land in the routed flow.

They press Buy on your store and pay on a checkout page branded as your store, on your own domain (checkout.your-brand.com). For them it is a normal modern checkout.

Seven locales at launch. Locale is pinned per store or auto-detected from the buyer.

Yes. Mobile-first design. Wallet buttons, single-line card entry, address autofill.

24 to 48 hours from the moment you send us your gateway API keys. First test order goes through inside that window.

Starter $199/mo + 1% GMV. Growth $399/mo + 1% GMV. Scale $999/mo + 0.7% GMV. Plus one-time $499 onboarding. Gateway fees stay with the gateway.

The onboarding fee unlocks a sandbox and one live test order per route before your billing cycle begins.

Yes. A WooCommerce plugin is included on the Scale tier and available as an add-on for Growth.

You use your own gateway account under your own contract with that provider, on your own checkout domain, selling your declared category. You stay responsible for following your gateway's terms and selling compliant products. We provide the software connection.

No. You disclose your true MCC to the acquirer. We do not obfuscate the product category. What we do is give you the software to route across multiple MIDs that have approved your category.

The checkout page uses PCI-compliant tokenization directly with your gateway. We never store card data ourselves. Merchants remain responsible for their own PCI attestation via their gateway.