We started as a small UK acquirer and grew into a full-stack payments platform — trusted by 17,000+ businesses across the UK.
Meet the teamMonek was founded in 1998 by Miles Carroll and a small team of payments engineers who believed British businesses deserved better than the opaque, expensive card acquiring services dominating the market.
We built everything in house — from our acquiring platform to our online gateway and REST API. No white label reselling, no outsourced support. Every transaction flows through systems we designed, maintain, and control.
Today, we serve over 17,000 merchants — from sole traders taking their first card payment to enterprise chains processing millions of transactions a month. What hasn't changed is our commitment to transparent pricing, next-day settlement, and support you can actually reach.