When your organization becomes a Preferred Partner, it opens the door to Nacha’s vast and diverse payments community—affording you the opportunity to be seen as a thought leader in the ACH space. Earning the right to display the Nacha Preferred Partner service mark demonstrates your leadership, innovation and commitment in advancing the ACH Network for all participants.

Preferred Partners must first meet two criteria:

• Showing strategic alignment with Nacha’s goals to advance the ACH Network.
• Matching the organization’s solution/service offering directly to a benefit for ACH Network users.

To be considered for Nacha Preferred Partner status, your organization must offer, or be planning to release, a solution/service to aid in one or more of these categories:

• Account Validation – Boosting transaction accuracy and reducing risk on the ACH Network through advanced verification technologies, real-time validation and fraud detection mechanisms.
• ACH Experience – Removing friction and/or enhancing the ways customers send or receive ACH payments.
• Compliance – Complying with an existing, upcoming or planned ACH Rule.
• Fraud Monitoring – Enhancing ACH transaction security and reliability through the utilization of machine learning, real-time data analysis, and analysis of transaction patterns and behaviors.
• ISO 20022 – Enhancing interoperability and improving operational processes through the translation of ACH payment messaging.
• Open Banking – Advancing integration and collaboration between financial institutions and third-party service providers to facilitate ACH transactions, reinforcing security, providing valuable data insights, improving access to the ACH Network and enhancing the customer experience.
• Risk and Fraud Prevention – Implementing practices, tools and/or solutions to mitigate ACH payment risk and fraud.

Nacha Preferred Partners receive myriad benefits. Whether it’s a podcast, executive briefing paper, webinar, or one of the many other offerings, you’ll choose the ones that work best for your organization. And you’ll have a dedicated program director from Nacha to help you every step of the way. Intrigued? Find out how you can become part of Nacha’s exclusive Preferred Partners community.

Nacha’s Preferred Partners receive visibility and numerous benefits. Below are a few:

• The ability to use Nacha Preferred Partner “mark” in collateral, customer and prospect communications, on partner’s website and exhibit booth, on company social, etc., thereby increasing new business relationships with potential clients by being recognized as a Nacha Preferred Partner.
• Recognition as a Preferred Partner in a joint press release and on Nacha’s website.
• Nacha participation in and support for a partner-hosted virtual event (e.g., webinar, podcast, cocktail social, coffee talk) and/or involvement in and promotion of collateral (e.g., executive briefing). 
• Exposure to Nacha’s community of payments experts from financial institutions, fintechs, and corporate end users. 
• A dedicated strategic Nacha program director to work with you to identify other co-branded marketing opportunities.