GMO Payment Gateway Partners with LayerX to Provide Card Payment Processing for "Bakuraku Invoice Issuance"
GMO Payment Gateway will partner with LayerX to provide card payment processing for the AI invoicing system "Bakuraku Invoice Issuance." This will enable companies to pay invoices by credit card, expecting to improve operational efficiency and flexibility in fund management.
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- 📰 Published: April 1, 2026 at 20:00
- 🔍 Collected: April 1, 2026 at 16:47
- 🤖 AI Analyzed: April 22, 2026 at 03:24 (490h 37m after Collected)
GMO Payment Gateway, Inc. (President: Issei Arita; hereinafter, GMO-PG), a member of the GMO Internet Group, will provide card payment processing functionality for the AI invoice sending system "Bakuraku Invoice Issuance," offered by LayerX, Inc. (CEO: Yoshinori Fukushima; hereinafter, LayerX). This will support the provision of a "Card Payment Option" that enables credit card payments for invoices within "Bakuraku Invoice Issuance." This option will be available from Wednesday, April 1, 2026.
Through this collaboration, LayerX will expand the payment methods on its platform and enhance the added value of its invoicing and payment functions. As a result, companies using "Bakuraku Invoice Issuance" will be able to streamline their invoicing and payment operations, reduce credit collection risks, and achieve more flexible fund management using card payments.
Going forward, GMO-PG will continue to support increased flexibility in B2B payments through various initiatives, including providing various payment services to platform operators.
【Background and Overview】
In recent years, the business environment surrounding companies has become increasingly severe due to external factors such as a weak yen, rising prices, interest rate hikes, and a structural labor shortage. In this environment, a shift in management is required, moving beyond traditional cost-cutting to increasing added value and labor productivity through active capital investment and digitalization. (*1)
Against this backdrop of a changing business environment, LayerX, as an AI company with the mission to "Digitize all economic activities," supports the efficiency of corporate back-office operations through its AI cloud for back-office, "Bakuraku." With "Bakuraku Invoice Issuance," it provides a form-issuing system that allows for the creation, sending, and storage of various documents, including invoices, achieving operational efficiency, paperlessness, and legal compliance simultaneously.
Meanwhile, GMO-PG, as one of Japan's largest PSPs (Payment Service Providers) with an annual payment processing value of over 22 trillion yen (*2), offers a variety of FinTech solutions centered on payments. In the B2B payment domain, it has provided its own services such as the comprehensive online payment service "PG Multi-Payment Service," "Invoice Card Payment by GMO," as well as "GMO BtoB Accounts Receivable Guarantee" and "GMO BtoB Early Payment," supporting the expansion of payment methods and stabilization of cash flow in B2B transactions. Leveraging the payment expertise cultivated through these efforts, it also supports the functional expansion and creation of revenue opportunities for partner companies' products and businesses by providing various payment services.
GMO-PG will now provide card payment processing functionality to LayerX's "Bakuraku Invoice Issuance," supporting the provision of the "Card Payment Option." Through this collaboration, LayerX will enable card payments for invoices in "Bakuraku Invoice Issuance," expanding the payment methods available on its platform.
(*1) Small and Medium Enterprise Agency "2025 White Paper on Small and Medium Enterprises in Japan Overview"