We’re proud to share that Acquired.com has won the Best Customer Experience award at this year’s Open Banking Expo Awards for our Hosted Checkout solution.
The award recognises our commitment to creating seamless, customer-focused payment experiences that bring real value to both merchants and their customers. It’s a reflection of our ongoing dedication to simplifying payments through thoughtful, scalable technology.
Eline Blomme, Chief Product & Strategy Officer at Acquired.com said “Winning this award is a testament to Acquired.com’s commitment to building solutions which have our customers at their core. What sets our Hosted Checkout solution apart is its combination of depth and simplicity. The solution was formed in response to conversations with merchants struggling to balance the demand for innovative, cost-saving payment methods and the organisational reluctance to commit development resources for unproven customer demand. Acquired.com is proud to be setting a new standard for customer experience in Open Banking innovation.”
The Open Banking Expo judges said: “A really strong entry with impressive data points around adoption, success rates, and integration speed for merchants. That ability to integrate Pay by Bank at the flick of a switch is powerful.”
Redefining Payment Experiences with Hosted Checkout
Hosted Checkout is a pre-built, configurable payments solution designed for rapid deployment. It enables businesses to offer customers a full range of payment options — including Open Banking, cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay — all through a single, unified integration.
Responding to growing market demand for streamlined Open Banking access, we built Hosted Checkout to remove the typical barriers to adoption. Many merchants had previously deprioritised Open Banking due to limited technical resources or uncertainty about customer take-up. Hosted Checkout solves this challenge by embedding Pay by Bank directly into the checkout experience, making it as easy to activate as any other payment method.
Through the Acquired.com Hub, merchants can now enable Pay by Bank with a simple toggle, allowing for easy feature testing and instant, no-code go live. This means businesses can introduce Open Banking payments without custom development or long implementation timelines — accelerating innovation and improving checkout performance.
We’re honoured to be recognised among so many innovative companies and would like to congratulate all the finalists for their contributions to advancing Open Banking. This win reflects the dedication and collaboration of our entire team in continuing to push the boundaries of what’s possible in payments.
