About Structure Payments

Two payments veterans, one problem worth solving.

Structure Payments was founded in 2023 by Patrick Felsted and Truman Child, two executives with three decades each of building companies and deep, hands-on experience in high-risk credit card processing. We exist for the businesses everyone else turns down.

  • ~30
    banks and processing institutions
  • 1-2 days
    next-day funding for established merchants
  • ~48 hrs
    from application to processing
  • 24/7
    real people, not a call center

Why we started Structure Payments

For years we owned and worked in a range of businesses, and we kept hitting the same wall. A good customer would lose their credit card processing, and once they couldn't take payments they couldn't pay their bills. Then we'd lose them too. It happened to small shops and to companies doing serious volume, and it was almost never their fault.

That is what led us into credit card processing directly. Patrick had run his own processing company since 1999, and over the past decade the team built a high-risk operation into a real success — pulling together the things that actually move a merchant account: direct relationships with Visa, Mastercard and Authorize.net, a call center, and underwriters who know how to get a difficult deal approved.

Structure Payments grew out of that. We kept meeting businesses in high-risk industries who simply had nowhere to turn, so we built Structure to focus on exactly those merchants and go looking for them. Same connections, same underwriting experience, pointed squarely at the businesses everyone else turns down.

“If you can't get a merchant account, your best chance is with us. We do everything possible to get it for you.”
Patrick Felsted, Founder & CEO
What we are building

Our mission

What Structure Payments is for, what we hold ourselves to, and what we are committed to delivering.

Why we exist

Empowering businesses others decline.

We exist because too many legitimate businesses get told no. Banks decline entire industries by policy, and nobody tells the owner where to go instead. We underwrite the businesses others turn away — firearms, CBD, vape, nutraceuticals, coaching and a dozen more — and get them processing, usually in about 48 hours.

  • Approve
  • Underwrite
  • Protect
  • Support
  • Deliver

What we commit to: Keep every merchant we approve processing without interruption.

If you have a chance of getting a merchant account, we give you the best chance of getting it.

Our values, lived

How we operate every day.

We give you a straight answer, including when it isn't the one you wanted. We underwrite your business individually instead of dropping you onto a shared account that can be frozen without warning. We answer the phone. And we tell you what something costs before you sign it.

  • Straight answers
  • Real underwriting
  • Speed
  • Transparency
  • Accountability

What we commit to: Publish our pricing and contract terms in plain language.

We would rather lose the sale than surprise you after it.

Where we're going

Our long-range vision for the future.

We want a market where a legitimate business is judged on how it operates, not on the category a bank filed it under. Our aim is to be the processor North American high-risk merchants are sent to when everyone else has said no — across more industries, with underwriting that keeps getting faster.

  • Accessible
  • Fair
  • Fast
  • North American
  • Independent

What we commit to: Add 5 new specialized high-risk industries to our supported verticals by March 2028.

Every legitimate business deserves a way to get paid.

This year

Key commitments for 2026-2027.

This year we are making approval faster and the process clearer. That means cutting the time from application to live processing, adding integrations so you can plug us into what you already sell on, and publishing what things actually cost instead of making you ask.

  • Speed
  • Efficiency
  • Support
  • Reliability
  • Growth

What we commit to: Reduce average time from application to live processing to 36 hours by June 2027, and integrate with 3 new major e-commerce platforms by March 2027.

Faster approvals, and no surprises in the paperwork.

Our people

Celebrating our team and community.

Structure is small on purpose. Patrick has been in card processing since 1999, Truman has spent a decade placing high-risk accounts, and when you call you get one of us or someone who reports to us — not a queue. That is the whole advantage.

  • Experience
  • Accountability
  • Access
  • Judgment
  • Service

What we commit to: You reach a decision-maker, not a support tier.

If something goes wrong, one person owns it until it's fixed.

Our impact

Real results, empowering real businesses.

Most complete applications are approved in about 48 hours. Two-day funding is standard and established merchants move to next-day. We do not charge a PCI fee. When we have results and merchants willing to be named, they go here — not before.

  • Results
  • Transparency
  • Growth
  • Trust
  • Reliability

What we commit to: Publish only results we can substantiate.

We would rather show you three real numbers than twelve impressive ones.
The founders

Who is behind Structure Payments

Patrick Felsted, Founder & CEO of Structure Payments

Patrick Felsted

Founder & CEO

LinkedIn

A C-suite executive for three decades who has worked in credit card processing since 1999, across small, medium and large businesses.

Patrick started his first credit card processing company in 1999, implementing full PCI DSS compliance in the era before online processors and later moving merchants onto the Authorize.net gateway. Over a 30-year career as an executive he has worked with close to 5,000 small companies that rely on card payments.

That work has spanned satellite TV and internet, home and business alarm systems, telecommunications, healthcare, first responders, commercial real estate, coaching and payment systems — hard-won experience he now points squarely at the merchants other processors turn away.

Truman Child, President of Structure Payments

Truman Child

President

LinkedIn

A C-suite executive for more than 30 years, with over a decade building high-risk credit card processing.

Truman has more than 30 years of experience running companies at the executive level, including over a decade building a successful high-risk credit card processing operation. Over that time he has supported thousands of small businesses with the systems that keep them running.

His work spans payment systems, payroll, insurance, workers' compensation, cybersecurity and property management — a breadth that informs how Structure Payments underwrites and supports merchants other processors avoid.

  • 2023
    founded
  • 60+ yrs
    combined executive experience
  • ~5,000
    businesses served by our team
  • ~48 hrs
    typical approval

Talk to the team

Call (877) 781-1785 or email sales@structpayments.com. See the industries we underwrite to find yours.

Get approved

If you can't get a merchant account, your best chance is with us.

We do everything possible to get you approved, and most merchants are processing within about 48 hours. No obligation to see your real rate.

  • No application or setup fees
  • Declined elsewhere? Still worth applying
  • A dedicated rep, not a call center
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