Syspro and Nuvei have partnered to embed integrated payments directly into Syspro's ERP for manufacturers and distributors. Syspro is a nearly 50-year-old ERP vendor headquartered in South Africa and the UK, with around 17,000 customers across 60+ countries, focused on mid-sized manufacturers and distributors. Nuvei is a Canadian global payments company, taken private by Advent International in November 2024 at a $6.3bn enterprise value, with a presence in 200+ markets. The partnership enables Syspro customers to process payments, update accounts receivable, and run cash flow reports in the same environment where the sales order is created. It also includes the ability to reserve funds at order creation, which is a credit control feature that matters for B2B companies selling on net terms. Nuvei is now Syspro's preferred payment partner in the Syspro Marketplace, available for existing customers to activate inside their current ERP.
Syspro already had its own payment gateway
Syspro has had PayThem, its own payment gateway, for years. The Nuvei deal does not replace PayThem. It extends it, connecting PayThem to Nuvei's global payments network. Therefore, Syspro is not doing what most ERPs do: referring customers to a third-party payment page. It is keeping the gateway it owns and adding global processing capabilities behind it. Syspro maintains control of the payment surface within its ERP, where data, AR records, and customer relationships reside. Nuvei sits behind that surface as the processor and acquirer.
Why embedded payments make sense in an ERP
The job an ERP user is trying to do is move a sales order from quote to cash. For a manufacturer or distributor, that typically means quoting, booking the order, reserving stock, shipping, invoicing, collecting payment, and posting to the general ledger. Historically, the payment step has been the one that has broken out of the ERP and required separate tools, manual reconciliation, and a finance clerk to match bank transfers back to invoices. Embedding payments collapses that step back into the same workflow as the rest, which is why the credit control feature in this deal (reserving funds at order creation) matters more than the global processing footprint. The greater value for a Syspro user is therefore not that Nuvei adds 200+ markets, but that the entire order-to-cash cycle now occurs in a single system, with fewer handoffs and less reconciliation work. Additionally, this is what makes embedded payments in ERP commercially different from a standalone gateway: the ERP vendor sells the workflow, not the payment method.
