Nayax Ltd. and Unipaas announced a strategic partnership on December 17 2025 that would have combined Unipaas’s AI‑powered embedded payments platform with Nayax’s Nova Modu and Nova 55F mobile terminals to deliver a unified card‑present and online payments experience for UK SaaS providers.
Within hours of the announcement, a separate report from UICI Pisa revealed that the two companies had terminated the collaboration on the same day. The termination was attributed to technical challenges in integrating the hardware with Unipaas’s software and strategic disagreements over the scope and revenue‑sharing model.
The intended partnership represented a significant shift for Nayax, which has historically focused on unattended retail and point‑of‑sale hardware. By embedding its terminals into a SaaS‑centric payments platform, Nayax aimed to broaden its reach into the growing UK SaaS market and create new recurring revenue streams.
For Unipaas, the collaboration would have extended its embedded‑payments offering into physical retail environments, allowing SaaS platforms to manage in‑person transactions without deploying separate hardware solutions. The abrupt cancellation means Unipaas will need to revisit its hardware integration strategy and may delay its plans to provide a fully unified payment experience.
The termination underscores the technical and strategic risks inherent in cross‑industry integrations. Nayax’s management has indicated that it will continue to pursue other partnerships that align more closely with its existing product roadmap, while Unipaas is exploring alternative hardware partners to support its embedded‑payments vision.
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