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Purpose-Built for Cash Bail

The First Payment Platform Built for Cash Bail.

In-person, card-present self-bail payments for jails. Zero cost to your facility. No integration required. CJIS and PCI DSS compliant from the ground up.

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81% of Americans carry less than $20 in cash
$67 average cash carried by U.S. adults
400K+ Americans in pretrial detention on any given day

The U.S. payment system went digital years ago. Cash bail hasn't kept up. 8A Payments closes that gap — for your facility, your county, and the people in your care.

The Problem

Your jail still runs on cash.
The rest of the world doesn't.

When a judge sets bail, the clock starts. For most detainees, that means scrambling to access their own funds — from a holding cell, in a world where almost no one carries cash. The result: longer stays, higher jail costs, and a system that works against the very right it's supposed to protect.

8A Payments was built to solve this. Not as a workaround. Not as a kiosk vendor. As the first payment infrastructure specifically engineered for the structural realities of cash bail.

What Makes 8A Different

Government as the Merchant.
Not a Middleman.

Most payment providers bolt on a generic solution and call it compliant. We built something structurally different: a model where the government entity is the merchant of record — eliminating the conflicts that make other platforms risky or unusable.

What Other Platforms Do How 8A Works
Vendor serves as merchant — assumes risk and control Your government entity is the merchant of record
Generic MCC codes can trigger cash-advance fees MCC 9399 — Government Services — standard credit rates
Jails absorb liability or fees get passed on invisibly 8% service fee paid by the detainee at checkout. Zero cost to the jail.
Integration required — long timelines, IT involvement Jail Direct: live in days with a dedicated secure link
No dedicated compliance architecture for CJIS environments CJIS + PCI DSS compliant from the ground up
Who We Serve

Built for jails. Designed for the ecosystem.

Whether you run a facility or build the technology that serves one, 8A Payments is engineered to fit into your world — not the other way around.

For Sheriffs & Jail Administrators

Accept digital bail payments with zero cost to your facility, no IT integration required, and full CJIS and PCI DSS compliance. Go live in days, not months.

Also supports court fees, fines, and probation payments under the same compliance framework.

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For Technology Partners

Add bail payment capability to your JMS, biometric ID, or corrections platform — and share in the revenue. We've built the infrastructure. You bring the relationships.

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✓ CJIS Compliant
✓ PCI DSS Certified
MCC 9399 — Government Services
0% Cost to Your Facility
How It Works

Go live in days. Not months.

8A Payments offers two paths to deployment — both built to minimize friction on your end.

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Jail Direct (Track One)

We deploy a card reader directly to your booking desk. No software. No integration. Detainees pay their own bail by card at booking. You collect the full bail amount.

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Ecosystem Integration (Track Two)

For facilities already using a jail management system or biometric ID platform, we integrate directly into your existing workflow — seamlessly and without disrupting operations.

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Charter Facility Program

Not ready to commit?
Try it live — zero cost, no obligation.

The Charter Facility Program gives your jail full, live access to the platform — real transactions, real payments — with no long-term obligation and zero cost to your agency.

  • ✓ Zero cost to your facility — at any point
  • ✓ Card reader shipped, typically live in five business days
  • ✓ Real transactions — this is not a demo
  • ✓ Continue, pause, or walk away at 60 days
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"Excessive bail shall not be required."

— Eighth Amendment, U.S. Constitution

When cash is the only payment option, bail becomes excessive by default — not because of the amount, but because of the friction. 8A Payments is built to restore the Eighth Amendment's original promise.

Ready to see it in action?

Schedule a 20-minute demo. We'll walk you through the platform, explain the model, and answer every compliance question your team has.

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