Development History

PAYSTO is a platform with a deep history of integrations and international expertise. We are constantly evolving to provide businesses with maximum stability and compliance with regulatory requirements.

2025 Strategic Update

• PAYSTO 3.0: A complete migration of the entire PAYSTO infrastructure to the new platform "Shared Decentralized Trading Infrastructure" SDTI24, introduced by DIGILIFE in 2024, is planned.

2024 Year of Scaling

• Key Metric: The number of active stores exceeded 250.
• Financial Result: PAYSTO's annual turnover reached $30 million.
• A new service was added — "Permanent Payment Link".
• A new feature was added — "White-Label" for individual infrastructure branding.
• DDoS protection services were integrated, and support for external servers was implemented.

2023 Steady Growth

• Key Metric: 183 active stores.
• Financial Result: PAYSTO users' annual turnover exceeded $22 million.

2022 Stabilization and Launch

• The stable version of the PAYSTO.COM service was launched.
• Key Metric: 126 stores connected.
• Financial Result: PAYSTO users' annual turnover exceeded $15 million.

2021 Relaunch in Russia

• Digilife, together with DZ-systems (Russia), introduced a new project "PAYSTO — Russian trading infrastructure as a service", built on the basis of OMSI20.

2020 Business Restructuring

• XYO (USA) acquires the international business PAYS.TO. The PAYSTO team decided to focus efforts on promoting services in the EAEU market under the PAYSTO.COM brand.

2019 Consolidation and Reach

• ABO (Germany) acquires Activate.to.
• 100,000 users (30,000 active stores) registered with PAYS.TO.
• PAYS.TO merges with XYO (USA).
• PAYSTO 2.0: ULTRAWEB introduced updated payment modules for CMS: WordPress, OpenCart, Drupal, Joomla, Prestashop and others.
• PAYSTO 2.0: own account on GitHub.com.

2018 Entry into the US Market and New Version

• Expansion: PAYS.TO enters the US market.
• PAYSTO 2.0: a new Personal Account (user) and PAYSTO payment pages were introduced — the logo and website design were updated, and language versions for English, German, and French were added.
• Prabhu MT (Nepal) acquires Gate.bz.
• HLFX (UK) acquires Funding.to.
• PAYSTO 2.0: Fiscalization of all sales to individuals was integrated to comply with 54 FZ.
• New feature — "Showroom" for each PAYSTO user.
• Strategic partner in Russia — "Sberbank".

2017 Updates and Integrations

• 20,000 users registered.
• A platform development plan was adopted — "PAYSTO 2.0 - Infrastructure for online business".
• PAYSTO 2.0: together with ULTRAWEB, began a global update of the website, personal accounts, and payment pages.
• PAYSTO 2.0: new feature — Claim Processing.
• PAYSTO 2.0: a new Buyer's account was introduced, which includes the function for submitting and managing claims.
• Together with DIGILIFE and WEBKUL (India), PAYSTO solutions for accepting payments were integrated into "Opencart Multi Vendor Marketplace".

2016 Record Turnover

• The mass payment service PaymentGate was separated into a distinct direction — Gate.bz.
• A special account was implemented for users of the Gate.bz service, including functions: Balance Top-up, Payout Register Upload, and Internal Transfer.
• Invitation-based registration was implemented.
• PAYSTO's annual turnover reached $100 million.

2015 Diversification

• LinkCharge — completely redesigned and new functionality added.
• New service LinkCharge.ru with a separate website and account — a fully independent and full-featured account with simplified registration and transaction management.
• OnlineMerchant and UpBalance products were combined into one product named — Pays.To.
• Partner bank — Modulbank (Russia).

2014 Audience Growth and Expansion of Payment Methods

• 15,000 users registered.
• The DonataMe service was completely redesigned and renamed FundingTo, with extended functionality for generating and customizing fundraising pages. Announcement on Habr
• The ability to pay from a mobile phone balance via SMS was added.
• An API interface for FundingTo was added. Announcement on Habr

2013 Platform Update

• Update: The website and payment pages received a new design.

2012 Expansion of Functionality, Integrations, and Support

• 10,000 users registered.
• The "Balance Top-up" service was added.
• OnlineMerchant service update: extended capabilities for accepting payments with API connection. Announcement on Habr
• Together with ULTRAWEB, PAYSTO introduced its own payment modules for CMS: Wordpress, OpenCart, and Drupal.
• CMS Simpla connected PAYSTO's payment module. Announcement on Habr
• A new service was added - PaymentGate for mass payouts. Announcement on Habr
• Implementation of SmarterTrack to optimize customer support, including a knowledge base and ticket processing system.

2011 Service Development

• 5,000 users registered.
• A new service was added — LinkCharge for creating offline transactions. Announcement on Habr
• The activation code sales service Keys.Ly was completely updated and renamed — ActivateTo. Announcement on Habr
• New feature — "Internal Transfer" between user Personal Accounts.

2010 Stability and Recurring Payments

• PAYSTO transitions to stable operation mode.
• New service — UpBalance for accepting payments in billing projects. PAYSTO becomes the first service in Russia for processing recurring payments.
• New feature — "Supplier Settlement".

2009 Project Launch

• Based on the ISCI7 platform, DIGILIFE, together with ULTRAWEB (Russia), launches a beta version of a cloud service for accepting and processing online payments — PAYSTO.
• New service — OnlineMerchant for accepting online payments.
• New service — Keys.Ly for selling activation codes.

2008 Concept Creation

• The DIGILIFE team introduced the concept of an IAAS service for e-commerce "Internet Sales Cloud Infrastructure" (ISCI7).
• Development began.