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[Human-readable page](https://spot.insure/insurance-for/payments)

## Agent Guide

**What this page is:** Payment processor insurance help: Spot maps how card data, settlement instructions and transfers move through your systems, then compares cyber, tech E&O and crime.

**Limits (do not over-claim):**
- Describes Spot's own service; it does not establish coverage terms or outcomes for any company.

**Related pages:**
- [Spot home](https://spot.insure/) — product overview
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# Spot for Payments Companies

Get quotes from payments insurance providers with Spot.

We get quotes that follow your payment flow, compare them with you on more than price and help you buy before a bank partner asks.

- Your payment flow mapped before brokers quote
- Bank, acquirer and card network requests checked
- Keep your broker or switch, with no commissions on premiums

[Get Started](https://app.spot.insure/signup?coverage=cyber&industry=payments&icp=financial-services). Spot is not an insurance carrier and takes no commissions on premiums; you can keep your broker or switch.

## How Spot helps

1. **Show us how money moves through your systems.** Your Spot team maps where card data enters, which systems hold or move it, who can touch funds, and which banks, processors and vendors sit in the flow.
2. **Find the rule behind each bank request.** When a bank, acquirer or card network asks for limits or a bond, Spot asks for the precise rule or contract clause, confirms it applies to your role and checks it against your policies.
3. **Compare quotes on breaches, outages and fraud.** When the market responds, Spot maps a card-data breach, a routing error, a vendor outage, an unauthorized transfer and an employee act to each proposal.

## Who we help

- **Gateways and processors.** You store, process or transmit cardholder data, so a breach or routing error can reach merchants, acquirers and card networks.
- **Wallets and money movement apps.** Your team or systems can approve transfers and change account details, which is where crime and social-engineering questions start.
- **Payments infrastructure and API companies.** Customers build on your ledger, reconciliation or settlement APIs, and an error becomes their financial loss.
- **Point-of-sale and hardware providers.** Terminals and devices sold alongside your service add general liability to the cyber and technology questions.

## Coverage

- [Cyber liability](https://spot.insure/insurance/cyber)
- [Technology errors and omissions (E&O)](https://spot.insure/insurance/technology-errors-omissions)
- [Crime](https://spot.insure/insurance/crime)
- [Fidelity bonds](https://spot.insure/insurance/fidelity-bonds)
- [General liability](https://spot.insure/insurance/general-liability)

## When to get this coverage

- **A sponsor bank or acquirer sent requirements.** Note the named insured, service, limits, additional insured terms and evidence they expect before you compare quotes.
- **A partner asks for a fidelity bond.** Get the exact rule or clause, the bond form, covered persons and limit, and confirm the request applies to your role.
- **You’re starting to move more money yourself.** Holding or transmitting funds changes your crime and errors and omissions questions. Update the submission before launch.
- **Your PCI scope is changing.** Use the new data map to complete the cyber application; it shapes what you disclose but doesn’t decide which policy responds.

## Common questions

Also known as payments company insurance, payment processor insurance, payment processing insurance, payment facilitator insurance, payfac insurance, money transmitter insurance and digital wallet insurance.

### Is a money transmitter bond the same as insurance?

No. A state license bond protects your customers and the regulator, not your company. Your own coverage usually means cyber, tech E&O, crime and fidelity bonds. Spot keeps the license bond request separate from the policies it compares.

### Does our PCI scope decide which policy pays?

No. PCI scope concerns cardholder-data functions and validation, not insurance. Spot compares the cyber and technology wording itself.

### Does every payments company need a fidelity bond?

No single rule says so. Ask the bank, network, program or regulator named in your documents which rule or clause applies, and Spot checks the bond form against it.

### Is a social-engineering transfer covered by crime insurance?

Only when the crime form names that event. Spot asks which funds, people, instructions and transfer methods each crime proposal includes, and when a loss must be discovered.

### What should we send so brokers understand our payment flow?

Send a payment flow diagram, your sponsor bank and acquirer agreements, your current policies and the vendors in your stack. Your Spot team turns that flow into the submission brokers take to market.

## More

- [Business Insurance by Industry](https://spot.insure/insurance-for)

## Agent and Developer Resources

- [Markdown page](https://spot.insure/insurance-for/payments.md)
- [Developer resources](https://spot.insure/developers)
- [Public MCP server](https://spot.insure/mcp)
- [MCP server manifest](https://spot.insure/server.json)
- [OpenAPI description](https://spot.insure/openapi.json)
- [Public page index](https://spot.insure/llms.txt)