Forage and Adyen have partnered to power SNAP EBT payments for Adyen merchants in the United States, the San Francisco-based payments company announced.
The collaboration enables retailers to accept SNAP benefits from the 42 million Americans who rely on them. The integration provides grocery, convenience and restaurant meal program merchants with a streamlined, compliant path to enable SNAP EBT within Adyen’s unified commerce platform.
Implementation details
The implementation supports mixed-basket flows, secure PIN entry and EBT-specific refund handling, allowing merchants to add EBT to existing Adyen integrations with minimal lift. Mixed-basket flows occur when shoppers purchase SNAP-eligible groceries such as food alongside non-eligible items such as soap in the same transaction. Shoppers pay with their EBT card for the eligible portion and use another payment method for the rest without separating items at the register.
First merchants are expected to go live in early 2026. Adyen merchants interested in enabling EBT can contact their account manager to coordinate eligibility and begin onboarding.
“At Adyen, our mission is to remove complexity from payments,” said Pearse O’Flynn, global head of platforms, food and beverage, and hospitality at Amsterdam-based Adyen.
“Partnering with Forage to bring seamless, end-to-end SNAP EBT processing onto our platform was a natural extension of that mission. This integration enables merchants to expand access to SNAP customers while preserving a single, consistent operational and reporting experience across all payment methods—reinforcing our commitment to our customers.”
Market growth
Forage is the fastest-growing USDA-approved payments processor for SNAP acceptance, supporting many of the nation’s largest grocery and delivery retailers with USDA Food and Nutrition Service approvals, technical implementation, go-to-market planning and ongoing program compliance.
Since 2019, the number of SNAP households using their benefits online has increased from 35,000 to more than 12 million. Merchants accepting EBT payments through Forage have grown sales by more than 15 percent.
“Adyen is one of the best payments companies in the world, trusted by brands people use every day,” said Ofek Lavian, co-founder and chief executive officer of Forage. “Forage is proud to support Adyen in enabling this important payment method for their retailers, while helping millions of SNAP recipients shop with more flexibility and dignity.”
Forage is the only USDA-approved third-party payment processor that offers retailers best-in-class software combined with dedicated service, enabling complex government payments online and guiding retailers through USDA authorization. In 2022, the USDA named Forage the third payment processor for the SNAP program, joining Fiserv and Worldpay. Investors in Forage include PayPal Holdings and FIS.
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