A payments company truly matures when merchants feel fewer headaches and more wins. Naim Hamdar, co-founder and president of United Payment Systems LLC (DBA: Payzli), set out to build exactly that—fast, transparent and tuned to the realities of people who sell for a living.
Hamdar frames the rise in three sharp chapters. In 2022 the team laid foundations, recruited across disciplines and put enterprise-grade rails in place before boarding a single merchant. In 2023 the company listened hard: interviews with more than one hundred ISO agents plus time inside barbershops, spas and tattoo studios shaped what to build and what to ignore. The next phase brought Payzli Connect v1 with near-instant AI-assisted onboarding and native integrations for Shopify, WooCommerce, SAP, Oracle, Odoo and NetSuite. Annual processing volume moved past the billion-dollar mark and a six-million-dollar Series A fortified the roadmap. The goal is clear—become the go-to growth engine for America’s 1099 payment professionals.
Inside the walls the future of work follows a simple line: use AI to remove drudgery and keep humans in charge of judgment. Hamdar treats teammates as catalysts first. Many came from the field, so product choices reflect what agents and merchants actually face. Training, practical toolkits and lightweight automation help partners sell, board and support without friction under a banner the company repeats often: “For the Joy of Business.”
The entrepreneurial thread runs longer than Payzli’s timeline. Before fintech, Hamdar built and led across sectors, from wireless retail, then a national T-Mobile distributor through Ameritel Wireless, then payment distribution including CardConnect Fiserv. Along the way he guided the Tampa Bay chapter of Entrepreneurs’ Organization through a difficult season and stayed close to the community through efforts like CEOs in Schools. Those chapters sharpened sales instincts, operational range and a habit of turning pressure into performance.
Vision over the next five years reaches beyond an app or a dashboard. Hamdar intends for Payzli to stand as a durable engine for independent payment professionals and the small businesses they serve. That means honest pricing and tools that make selling, invoicing and settlement simple. The company will widen partner programs, deepen its platform and keep pushing accuracy, security and speed so merchants focus on customers rather than paperwork.
A Titan 100 Honoree, Hamdar favors velocity with clarity and measures success in adoption rather than pitch decks. Personal pride shows up away from screens too. Family anchors the work, including twins he calls his greatest achievement, a reminder that ambition makes sense only when it serves people you love and communities you share.
The pattern is visible—listen to the field, build what matters, prove value quickly and share the win with partners. If Payzli keeps that rhythm, whiteboard sketches will continue becoming results for the people who swipe, tap and trust payments to work every day.