Forage: SNAP EBT Payments for Retailers & Grocery Savings

Payments powering people

Forage is a mission-driven payments company enabling SNAP EBT for merchants and grocery savings for shoppers.

Trusted by leading retailers and delivery apps

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Why doing good is good for business

AUDIENCE

42M People

More than 1 in 8 Americans receive government benefits through programs like SNAP, formerly known as food stamps.

MARKET

$100B+ USD

Billions of dollars are distributed annually by the U.S. government in benefit programs such as SNAP, TANF (EBT Cash), and others.

TRAJECTORY

>300x Increase

Since 2019, the number of SNAP households using their benefits online has increased from 35k to over 12M (and growing).

REVENUE

15%+ Growth

Merchants grow their sales by 15% or more when they enable EBT payments with Forage, feeding families in need.

BENEFITS

Grow your business with Forage

With our leading API and SDKs, you are only an integration away from unlocking new revenue streams and enabling EBT payments.

Proven Reliability

We are the only cloud-based EBT payment provider with 99.9% reliability and public status page.

Prebuilt Components

Deliver seamless checkouts for your customers, without the code or integration hassle.

Rapid Certification

Get approved by the USDA, in a fraction of the time, with our in-house team of SNAP experts.

USDA Certification

Forage is one of three payment providers approved by the USDA to process EBT payments.

Safe & Secure

Protect your business and customers with our PCI-compliant fraud layer and leading anti-fraud solutions.

Real-Time Analytics

Scale your EBT business with our configurable merchant dashboard, purpose-built for your specific needs.

Built by developers, for developers

Websites and apps are built on all kinds of tech stacks. With Forage, your engineers can pick the integration option and SDK that best suits your existing infrastructure.

Explore API documentation

cURL

iOS

Android

curl--request POST \

--url https://api.sandbox.joinforage.app/api/payments/ \

--header'Authorization: Bearer prod_vOrumiuRFG7ouMoZNF8AeFNwMhZRET' \

--header'Idempotency-Key: 123e45678' \

--header'Merchant-Account: 1234567' \

--header'accept: application/json' \

--header'content-type: application/json' \

--data' { "amount": 25.99, "payment_method": "ac47392bb1", "funding_type": "ebt_snap", "customer_id": "e8819a107a50aa50771a075e25a7529421ad0267bfef691745f915d8a2acc7e9" }