Tabs Partners With Adyen to Embed Payments in Invoicing

Tabs, the New York revenue automation company, named Adyen on November 5, 2026 as the first payments partner behind Tabs Pay, a product that takes card and ACH payments inside its billing platform. The tabs platform funding behind the launch totals $87 million.

Tabs Pay is available to new and existing Tabs customers, the company said, so the product is live rather than a roadmap item.

For finance teams, the change is where cash lands. Until now a company billing through Tabs sent an invoice, then relied on a separate processor, bank feed or manual step to learn that it had been paid. Tabs Pay puts the payment on the same record as the contract and the invoice.

That matters most for teams that spend the close matching receipts to open items. It also tests how far a young billing vendor can go into payment processing, a business with its own regulation, risk and margin structure.

Tabs platform funding and the Adyen announcement

Adyen is a Dutch payments company that processes card and bank payments for large merchants. Tabs said Adyen provides bank verification, tokenisation, split payments, payouts and reporting behind Tabs Pay.

Customers pay by card or ACH from invoices sent in Tabs. Bank accounts are verified instantly through Plaid and Adyen, which shortens the wait before an ACH debit can be trusted.

Adyen’s hosted components keep card data inside its PCI Level 1 environment. Tabs customers see one dashboard rather than a processor portal alongside their billing system.

“Finance teams shouldn’t have to switch systems to get paid,” said Ali Hussain, chief executive of Tabs.

Blake Breathitt, senior vice president and co-head of global strategy at Adyen, said finance teams “no longer have to navigate fragmented tools to invoice, collect, and reconcile.”

How Tabs Pay works with invoices and collections

Failed payments are retried automatically, and each retry is linked to the original invoice. Merchants can issue refunds, manage disputes and track payouts without leaving Tabs.

The design removes a join that finance teams usually build themselves. In a typical stack the billing tool holds the invoice, the processor holds the transaction, and someone or something matches the two. Tabs runs payments on the same contract, invoice and customer record as billing and revenue recognition, which the company says removes manual matching.

That is the heart of cash application, the step where an incoming payment is assigned to the right open invoice. When the payment is created from the invoice itself, the assignment is already made. Remittance advice and short-pays still arise on payments that arrive outside the platform, such as wires, but card and ACH payments made through Tabs Pay carry the invoice reference from the start.

The same logic helps collections management. A collector working an overdue account can see a failed payment, its retry history and the invoice in one place, rather than chasing a customer who has already paid through another channel.

Tabs sells billing, collections, revenue recognition and reporting, and says it works with tools from QuickBooks to DocuSign to HubSpot. Its revenue recognition is built for ASC 606, the US standard. The announcement did not set out how Tabs Pay postings reach a general ledger, so firms should ask the vendor for the journal mapping before relying on it at close.

What Tabs and Adyen have not yet said

The announcement leaves several questions that a controller or partner would ask first. It did not state who is the merchant of record, which shapes liability for chargebacks and the tax treatment of fees.

It did not publish pricing or processing fees, and it did not list the countries where Tabs Pay is available. The only payment methods named are card and ACH, which points to the United States as the starting market. ACH is a US bank network, and the release gave no sign of SEPA or Bacs debits for European or UK buyers.

Calling Adyen the first payments partner implies others may follow. Neither company has named a second partner or a date.

Tabs lists a pricing section on its site without published rates for the new product. Buyers comparing it with a standalone processor will need a quote that separates the Tabs subscription from per-transaction costs.

Tabs platform funding since 2024

Tabs has raised $87 million across three rounds since April 2024, according to the Tabs investors and funding record on Accountio. Lightspeed Venture Partners led a $7 million seed round in April 2024.

General Catalyst led a $25 million Series A announced on October 30, 2024, with Lightspeed and Primary continuing to invest. Lightspeed led a $55 million Series B in September 2025, joined by Primary Venture Partners and WiL.

The company said at the Series A that the money would go to revenue automation, product development, go-to-market capacity, customer success and partnerships with accounting and advisory firms. A payments product is a continuation of that plan, since Tabs platform funding now extends the platform from issuing the invoice to collecting on it.

Tabs has named customers including Alkira, Cortex, Statsig, Oscilar and OpenClinica, and its site shows logos such as Cursor, LangChain and Snapdocs. The company has not published a current customer count with this announcement, and the Series A figure of more than $35 million in total capital predates the later rounds.

The competition for embedded B2B payments

Tabs is not the first billing vendor to add payments. Embedding the processor lets a software company earn on volume as well as subscriptions, which is why the move is common.

In Canada, Dext Payments competes with Plooto and Bill.com on bill payment. Tech Mahindra has partnered with Mastercard on embedded virtual cards inside ERP workflows. Intuit bought Sequence to add quote-to-revenue automation, the same territory Tabs works in.

The edge for Tabs, backed by its platform funding, is that billing, collections and payment sit under one contract record. Its risk is the cost of operating as a payments business, including disputes, fraud and the support load that arrives when customers pay late.

Adyen takes much of that burden by holding the card data and the processing. How the two split revenue and responsibility was not disclosed.

What finance teams should check next

Teams considering Tabs Pay should ask four things: who is merchant of record, what each card and ACH payment costs, which regions are supported, and how payouts and fees post to the ledger. Those answers decide whether the product shortens the close or moves the reconciliation to a different place.

Treasury teams will also want to see how payout timing feeds a cash flow forecast, since faster ACH verification only helps if settlement dates are predictable.

The next facts to watch are the pricing page for Tabs Pay, the countries Tabs adds beyond the United States, and whether a second payments partner is named.