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name: Nacha
domain: nacha.org
kind: publisher
relation: shaper
segment: online payment acceptance
descGrounded: 0.73
---

# Nacha

A payments industry association that governs the ACH Network and provides education, accreditation, and advisory services.

**Route:** surfaced by the online payment acceptance lane's de-branded queries → shaper to stripe.com.

**Why it's on the map:** It defines the rules and standards for the ACH Network, the infrastructure that underlies bank-account-based payments, which Stripe’s payment acceptance depends on for flows like ACH direct debit.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> Nacha governs the ACH Network

> we advance the nation’s payments system and deliver payments education, accreditation and advisory services

**Edges:**

- competitor [[gocardless-com]]
- competitor [[stripe-com]]
- competitor [[tipalti-com]]
- competitor [[paystand-com]]
- competitor [[plaid-com]]
- competitor [[ramp-com]]
- competitor [[increase-com]]
- competitor [[paymentcloudinc-com]]
- competitor [[finix-com]]
- competitor [[pxp-io]]
- competitor [[stampli-com]]
- competitor [[bottomline-com]]
- covers [[bill-com]]
- covers [[plaid-com]]
- competitor [[unit21-ai]]
- competitor [[intellipay-com]]
- competitor [[flywire-com]]
- competitor [[echohealthinc-com]]
