Bonita Payments
About Bonita

Of New Orleans. For the country.

"The merchant services partner that treats your business like a mission — and built the tools to prove it."

Our story

Not just a payment processor. A merchant ecosystem.

Most merchant services companies sell a rate and a terminal. Bonita built six proprietary software modules covering every stage of a merchant's lifecycle — onboarding, underwriting, capital, training, logistics, and analytics. No regional ISO competitor has this story.

Today, Bonita serves merchants across the country from our headquarters in downtown New Orleans, operating through Fiserv Direct processing infrastructure and supported by our proprietary QuarterSuite ecosystem. We're still small enough that you talk to the people running the company — and big enough that you can trust we'll be here in ten years.

Founded in New Orleans and built over 12 years, Bonita has served thousands of merchants, partners, and clients across multiple sales channels. The next phase is not just growth. It is a transformation into a fintech infrastructure company powered by QuarterSuite.

Disciplined

Operational naming signals precision, accountability, and disciplined execution. Every module has a clear role in the larger merchant infrastructure system.

Rooted

New Orleans is a feature, not a footnote. Community, loyalty, and the long game define Bonita.

Forward

QuarterSuite signals Bonita is building the future of merchant management — not just selling terminals.

Leadership

The people behind Bonita.

Operator-led, not committee-run — the people accountable for Bonita are the people you can reach.

Elliott Forman

Founder & CEO

Leads company strategy and Bonita's transformation into a payment infrastructure platform.

Ramón A. Maldonado

EVP & CIO

Leads technology and the partner program across the QuarterSuite ecosystem.

New Orleans

Headquartered here.
Shaped by here.

New Orleans isn't a footnote on our about page. It's where Bonita was born, where we work every day, and where our values come from. Community, resilience, and the long game define how we operate.

We serve merchants across the U.S., but the way we treat them comes from this city — warm, direct, and genuinely invested in your success. We pick up the phone because that's how business is done here.

650 Poydras Street, Suite 2315 · New Orleans, LA 70130

The stack behind us

National infrastructure. New Orleans accountability.

Bonita Payments operates on Fiserv Direct infrastructure, giving merchants and partners the reliability of national rails — and the responsiveness of a New Orleans team that picks up the phone.

Fiserv Direct
Processing Infrastructure

Bonita operates on Fiserv Direct rails — one of the largest processing networks in the world, with national reach for card-present and card-not-present commerce.

Sponsor Bank
Card Network Compliance

Sponsor bank and card network relationships keep every Bonita merchant credentialed, compliant, and connected to the rails that move the money.

QuarterSuite
Proprietary Operating Layer

Our in-house software ecosystem powers onboarding, capital, training, equipment, POS, and identity — built for how Bonita actually runs.

2027The Plan

Our goal is simple: 100x Bonita into a fintech infrastructure company by 2027 — built on direct processing access, proprietary software, capital tools, partner enablement, and operational discipline.

Work with us

Bonita is hiring operators, not headcount.

Sales, support, underwriting, engineering — if you've worked in payments and you're tired of how the industry treats merchants and agents, we want to talk.

What we offer
  • New Orleans HQ, distributed team across the US
  • Operator-led — no private equity, no board theater
  • Real ownership in what you build
  • Direct line to leadership, every week