Ozura: one platform to operate an entire payments strategy
After the merchant portal shipped, we stayed embedded and built Ozura's partner platform — onboarding merchants, monetizing volume, and managing partner revenue on one core.
The situation
With merchants live, Ozura's next market was partners: platforms and ISVs who bring their own merchants and need onboarding, revenue share, and reporting without spreadsheets.
The constraint
The partner platform had to sit on the same ledger as the merchant portal — two products, one source of truth for money — while the founding team stayed focused on sales.
The approach
We designed the program around operational continuity and evidence. Each release had to prove it was at least as safe and understandable as the process it replaced.
Worked as Ozura's embedded product team, carrying the roadmap from merchant portal into partner platform.
Extended the core ledger to partner hierarchies and revenue splits instead of forking a second system.
Built partner onboarding and merchant provisioning as self-serve flows with daily-visible revenue.
What shipped
- Partner onboarding and merchant provisioning
- Revenue-share configuration and payouts
- Partner-facing analytics and reporting
The results
2
products on one payments core
1
ledger as the source of truth
0
spreadsheets in partner ops
“Merchants and partners see the same numbers we do. That's what made the platform pitch land.”
Founder, OzuraPay