Decentro vs Increase ACH

Decentro is a Banking-as-a-Service platform that provides financial modules through APIs and SDKs. Its global collection service lets businesses accept international payments in local currencies through a unified API, with payment options including cards, SWIFT, SEPA, domestic transfers, and virtual accounts. The collection page lists 9+ currencies, though available collection and settlement currencies depend on Decentro’s licenses and support as a payment service provider.

Other offerings include multi-currency accounts, escrow, and a ledger for transactions and balances. The multi-currency escrow service supports holding, splitting, and releasing funds, and lists USD, GBP, EUR, AED, AUD, and JPY. Incoming payments can be matched to invoices. A web dashboard shows transaction data and balances, supports payment initiation, and provides reconciliation reports.

Increase ACH is a web and API service for technology companies that originate ACH credits and debits, track returns, and store frequently used payment details. Increase says ACH is same-day by default, submitted at every Federal Reserve window, with payments potentially arriving in less than 24 hours. Next-day ACH origination is priced at $0.50, while same-day origination costs $2. ACH returns cost $5, unauthorized returns cost 15.00 USD, and late return request processing costs 25.00 USD. Unique counterparty account numbers support reconciliation. Incoming transfers can be previewed for one hour before allocation, with allow or disallow lists and other rules or limits. Return codes and standard entry class codes are exposed, returns are automatically correlated, and webhooks report transfer lifecycle events. The dashboard shows payment status, pending submissions, estimated arrival, and returns. Increase also lists PCI DSS Level I and SOC 2 audits, disk-level encryption, application-level AES 256 encryption for certain data, and HTTPS for API requests.