About Ask

Money should move
as easily as a message.

Ask was built on a simple idea: sending or receiving a payment should be as effortless as asking for one. No apps to download, no terminals to buy — just a branded request your customer can pay in a tap, or a payout you send in seconds.

Why we built it

One platform to send and receive.

Most tools only solve half the problem — they help you collect, or they help you pay out, but rarely both, and almost never under your own brand. We created Ask to do both on a single set of rails. Request money from a customer or send money out, and it all runs through the gateway you already use, with your logo and colors front and center.

Because how people want to pay keeps changing, Ask meets them wherever they are: a QR code at the counter or on a printed invoice, a link dropped into a text or email, an SMS request to a phone, or an embedded button on a website. Every one of them opens a fully personalized payment page — your branding, your message, preset amounts or gratuity, and the payment methods your customers expect, from cards to Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, and BNPL.

Ways to get paid

Four surfaces. One branded experience.

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QR code

Scan at the counter or off a printed invoice — no app, no terminal.

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Link

Drop a branded payment link into any chat, email, or message.

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SMS

Text a request straight to a customer's phone, ready to pay.

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Button

Embed a hosted, branded checkout on any website in a few lines.

Built for the AI era

The first payments platform an AI can actually use.

More and more, people don't open an app to get something done — they ask an AI. So we made Ask speak that language natively. Through our Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, assistants like Claude and ChatGPT can create a payment request, generate a QR code, or check a status right inside the conversation — no dashboard, no copy-paste.

It means your business is present at the exact moment intent turns into action, on the surfaces millions of people now use every day. AI isn't a bolt-on feature here — it's how Ask was designed to work.

MCP servers Claude ready ChatGPT ready REST API AI-drafted reminders

claude · ask connector

// "Send Maria a $120 request for the deposit"

await ask.requests.create({
  amount: 120,
  memo: "Catering deposit",
  delivery: ["sms", "email"]
});

// → link sent · settles to your gateway

Part of Paying.co

Three decades of payments, behind every request.

Ask is a product of Paying.co, whose leadership brings nearly thirty years of experience moving money — both domestically and around the globe. We've built and certified payment systems across cards, gateways, and processors on multiple continents, and that hard-won expertise is engineered into everything Ask does.

30 yrs

Payments leadership

Global

Domestic & cross-border

Multi

Gateways & processors

PCI

Security-first by design

What we value

Built by payments people, for real businesses.

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Engineering depth

Built by engineers who've certified payment systems at scale — not a thin layer over someone else's stack.

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Your brand, always

Every page, link, and request carries your identity. We stay invisible so your business stays front and center.

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Ahead of the curve

From MCP servers to AI-drafted reminders, we build for where payments are going, not just where they've been.

See how easily money can move.

Start a free trial and send your first request today — by QR, link, SMS, button, or straight from your AI assistant.

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