You win the merchant. Another POS brand gets the credit.
Every login, receipt, app, and support handoff teaches your customer that the software relationship belongs to somebody else.
Put your name at the front door.White-label, AI-native commerce OS for ISOs
Payments brought you the merchant.
Now own the operating system.
Keep your brand at the front, add recurring software revenue, and launch restaurant, liquor, beauty, and specialty-retail solutions on one configurable core—without building the product, engineering, and L2/L3 organization behind it.
Make the second revenue stream visible
Your portfolio should earn software revenue, too.
You already own the distribution. Ankeva lets you add a partner-branded, recurring software layer to the merchant relationships you have worked to build—without staffing a software company behind it.
Keep your payment economicsAdd recurring platform revenueExpand one vertical at a time
Illustrative annual software revenue
$88,200
150 modeled active locations × $49 per month. This is a scenario—not an offer, guarantee, or forecast.Activated locations are rounded down to whole locations. Gross scenario before Ankeva commercial terms and operating costs. Excludes payment revenue, hardware, setup, support costs, churn, taxes, and AI or add-on modules.Model basis and sources
Portfolio size and attach rate are user-selected assumptions, not forecasts. The monthly sensitivity range is calibrated to publicly listed U.S. POS subscriptions: Square Plus at $49 and Premium at $149 per location per month. The $69 and $99 inputs are intermediate Ankeva what-if values used only to test sensitivity. None are Ankeva pricing or a guaranteed partner margin. Source reviewed August 10, 2026.
The ISO ownership gap
You do the selling. Someone else keeps the software relationship.
The payment residual stays. The software upside leaves.
Subscriptions, loyalty, digital ordering, memberships, and other recurring modules become someone else’s expansion revenue.
Build a software revenue layer around your book.Every vertical sends your team to a different system.
Restaurant, liquor, beauty, and specialty retail stacks create separate demos, onboarding motions, data models, and support burdens.
Run vertical playbooks on one configurable core.Your roadmap waits on a vendor that serves everyone.
Processor paths, integrations, workflow changes, and AI priorities are decided by a platform whose market may not match yours.
Shape the system around the portfolio you serve.One core, visibly yours
Watch the operating system change with the merchant.
The brand stays yours while the workflow, operating signals, and AI action change with the vertical. Switch the demo—or let it play.
Good morning
Harbor House
Restaurant OS
Today’s sales$12,480+8.4% vs. last Friday
Operating signals
- Lunch rush is 18% ahead
- Overtime risk at 6:30 PM
- 2 actions ready for approval
AI
Recommended next move
Delivery margin slipped 2.8 points this week.
Third-party order mix rose while two high-volume items stayed below target contribution margin.
Review menu pricingModel the impact
Synthetic demonstration only. Merchant names, sales, percentages, counts, signals, and recommendations are fictional—not customer results or industry benchmarks. Final modules, data connections, assistants, controls, and white-label surfaces are defined in each partner scope.
Tailored partner demo
Put your brand, vertical, and payment path into the room.
We’ll focus the session on one real merchant workflow and mark what is ready, configurable, or still needs validation.AI-native means context + action + control
Not a chatbot glued to the checkout screen.
Ankeva is designed so approved assistants can understand the business, surface the next useful action, and operate inside the partner's permissions, approval rules, and data boundaries.
Know what is happening
Unify transactions, products, customers, staff, inventory, services, and payments so every approved answer starts with the operating context—not a disconnected chatbot.
Recommend the next move
Configure daily briefs, anomaly flags, retention opportunities, portfolio signals, and recommended actions around each vertical and each user’s permissions.
Act with control
Route high-impact actions through approval, role, audit, and data-boundary controls. Start assisted; automate only the workflows that prove safe and useful.
Examples include portfolio risk signals, merchant daily briefs, inventory anomalies, retention opportunities, and support triage. Exact assistants, automations, models, human approvals, and data handling are documented in each partner scope before release.
See the approval rules and operating context around one workflow from your portfolio.
Book a demoGo multi-vertical without going generic
Sell one sharp vertical story at a time.
The brand can cover the full portfolio. The launch should not. Each partner starts with one repeatable merchant segment, proves the workflow and economics, then expands on the same core.
Launch first / Food + beverage
Protect margin across every ordering channel.
Bring counter, handheld, kitchen, kiosk, direct ordering, loyalty, and multi-location operations into one partner-branded restaurant system.Expand next / Liquor + specialty
Control high-SKU inventory without slowing checkout.
Configure catalogs, case-to-single inventory, age-check workflows, promotions, loyalty, and reporting for the merchant and jurisdiction in scope.Vertical package / Beauty + wellness
Turn appointments into durable customer value.
Connect service menus, scheduling paths, deposits, memberships, client history, staff workflows, and retail add-ons under one brand.Focused niches / Specialty retail
Match the workflow—not a generic retail template.
Shape product, pricing, checkout, customer, promotion, staff, and location workflows around a repeatable specialty-merchant segment.Product depth matters more than category coverage. Exact scheduling, inventory, regulated-product controls, integrations, hardware, and processor compatibility are verified before a vertical is marketed.
Bring the merchant segment your team already knows how to sell.
Book a demoThe configurable commerce core
One product foundation. A system that looks and works like yours.
Start with the commerce core, then configure the brand surfaces, modules, workflows, payment paths, roles, support model, and AI use cases that make the offer specific to your market.
Commerce core
Bring checkout, orders or services, products, pricing, customers, staff, and reporting into one configurable operating layer.
Payments + pricing
Start with a reviewable Fiserv or TSYS/Global Payments semi-integrated route—or scope an approved gateway path around the exact terminal, application, receipts, refunds, and reconciliation workflow.
Customer + loyalty
Connect customer profiles, rewards, gift value, promotions, memberships, and retention experiences across merchant touchpoints.
Digital + self-service
Extend the core through approved online, mobile, kiosk, QR, appointment, or other self-service journeys required by each vertical.
Staff + operations
Configure roles, locations, workflows, fulfillment, service handoffs, support responsibilities, and operating controls around the merchant model.
Data + intelligence
Create the governed business context for reporting and approved AI assistants, recommendations, and automations across the portfolio.
Map your brand, modules, and exact payment path onto the configurable core.
Book a demoField notes for payment leaders
Useful answers before the product pitch.
Ankeva is a white-label POS and AI-native commerce operating system for ISOs that want to own their merchant-facing software brand and recurring software offer. These guides explain the operating decisions behind that model—not just the headline.
Ownership
What white-label POS should actually mean
Map brand, contract, product, payments, data, support, and economics instead of stopping at the logo.Read the field noteEconomics
How to model ISO software revenue
Separate a gross recurring scenario from partner share, delivery, support, risk, and operating cost.Read the field noteAI governance
AI-native means context, action, and control
Evaluate permissions, approval, audit, uncertainty, and escalation around one real commerce workflow.Read the field noteLaunch control
How to scope a focused proof
Name the merchant, payment path, responsibilities, evidence, dependencies, and stop conditions before rollout.Read the field noteTurn the framework into a conversation about your actual portfolio.
Book a demoKeep the relationship. Skip the software-company overhead.
You own the market. Ankeva operates the core.
Your company owns
The customer-facing business
- Merchant acquisition and commercial relationship
- Payment pricing and processor relationship
- Local sales, onboarding coordination, and L1 support
- Vertical positioning and account expansion
Ankeva operates
The software foundation
- Multi-vertical commerce applications and cloud platform
- Product releases, maintenance, and technical standards
- Implementation playbooks and L2/L3 escalation
- Configurable intelligence layer and approved integrations
Final responsibilities for onboarding, data, support, compliance, processor certification, and merchant continuity are documented in the signed program agreement.
Draw the ownership line around a real partner opportunity before you sell it.
Book a demoFrom portfolio to repeatable offer
Prove one merchant motion before multiplying it.
The founding-partner motion starts narrow and makes activation, support effort, merchant value, attach rate, and economics visible before either side commits to a broader rollout.
Choose
Pick one vertical
Select the repeatable merchant segment where you already have distribution, pain, and a named operator willing to pilot.
Scope
Name the hard parts
Lock the brand surfaces, workflows, hardware, exact Fiserv, TSYS/Global Payments or gateway path, support owners, AI use cases, and measurable acceptance criteria.
Prove
Run real merchants
Begin with a proposed one-to-three-location founding proof, measure onboarding effort and merchant outcomes, then close the gaps that matter.
Repeat
Package what worked
Turn the proven setup into a demo tenant, pricing bundle, implementation checklist, support playbook, and sales motion your team can repeat.
The one-to-three-location range is an Ankeva proposed founding-proof guardrail for discussion—not an industry benchmark, forecast, or contractual commitment.
Scope the first proof before either side commits to a broader rollout.
Book a demoFounding ISO partner pilot
Bring one repeatable merchant problem worth owning.
The proposed founding scope selects one to three merchants that expose the real complexity in your book. The working session turns that pain into a scoped demo, partner economics, implementation plan, and measurable go/no-go criteria.
Ideal pilot profile
- A committed operator and accessible catalog, menu, or service list
- A reviewable Fiserv, TSYS/Global Payments, or approved gateway path
- A repeatable merchant concept in one launch vertical
- A decision-maker on both sides