AppMarket Frequently Asked Questions
For Financial Institutions
Get AppMarket Apps
- Apps listed in AppMarket are provided by third-party fintechs; their price is not listed in the AppMarket. When monthly usage exceeds 50,000 API transactions per month Communicator Open legal schedule fees apply.
- Premium apps (those with the Quick Connect badge) have no Fiserv implementation fee when your account processing platform is hosted by Fiserv. For account processing platforms hosted on the Financial Institution’s premises there may be a connectivity fee for the first app connected.
- Plus apps have a Fiserv implementation fee typically half the cost of implementing an app not listed in AppMarket.
Communicator Open
- Currently: Cleartouch, Finxact, Premier, Precision, Signature.
- Coming Soon: Portico, DNA, CoreAdvance*.
*Premier serves as the foundation of CoreAdvance. Communicator Open is compatible with Premier and consequently CoreAdvance. As Core Advance matures and gets new functionality beyond the current Premier, Precision, and Cleartouch – Communicator Open will keep pace.
- Select Contact me on an app page in AppMarket to be contacted directly by the app’s company. If you decide to buy, your Fiserv relationship manager is notified to get you a Communicator Open schedule.
- Select Get Communicator Open to integrate an app not listed in the AppMarket, or to build your own. Your Fiserv relationship manager is notified to get you a Communicator Open schedule and a custom integration professional services work order or an environment setup work order.
- AppMarket Apps are purchased directly from the fintech company that made the app.
- Premium apps listed as Quick Connect have no Fiserv implementation fee if your account processing platform is hosted by Fiserv or if it is hosted on your premises and you already have another app using Communicator Open. For on premises clients Managed Network Services project for network connectivity may also be required.
- Plus apps have a fixed fee: $60k for ASP Clients, $70k On Premise Clients & Managed Network Services project for network connectivity may also be required.
- Custom integration of app not listed in AppMarket: there is a fixed fee: $140k. Consider inviting a fintech whose app you are interested in to join the AppMarket and become a Premium or Plus app to reduce or eliminate Fiserv implementation fees.
- Environment setup to build your own apps; there is a fixed fee: $60k.
- AppMarket Apps are purchased directly from the fintech company that made the app.
- Premium apps listed as Quick Connect have no Fiserv implementation fee if your account processing platform is hosted by Fiserv or if it is hosted on your premises and you already have another app using Communicator Open. For on premises clients first app there is a fixed fee. Login to view.
- Plus apps have a fixed fee. Login to view.
- Custom integration of app not listed in AppMarket; there is a fixed fee. Login to view.
- Environment setup to build your own apps; there is a fixed fee. Login to view.
For Fintechs
Getting Started
- Free: Developer Studio Banking Hub workspace access to shared account processing platform to make API requests and receive responses; full API documentation. No technical support.
- Paid: AppMarket Banking Hub Connection Plan access to dedicated account processing platform, 16 hours of subject matter expert API integration support and assigned project manager. Additional hours can be purchased in 40-hour increments. If you have a paid plan and no remaining hours, issues are reported via ticketing system.
Evaluating a Fiserv Partnership
Review API docs in Developer Studio’s Banking Hub. Create a free workspace to get an access key; use postman to test API transactions. Build your integration. A partnership with Fiserv is not necessary for you to sell your app to Financial Institutions who pay Fiserv for the connection to your app.
- Market: Number of Financial Institutions using Fiserv account processing platforms supported by Banking Hub and how to effectively reach them.
- Pipeline: AppMarket listing impact on awareness and acquisition cost.
- Price: Higher customer fees without partnership. Compare plan costs to business goals.
- Promotion: Value of Fiserv validated integration and faster setup for customers.
| Your Company | Your Customer | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Partnership | Purchase | Type listed in AppMarket | Fiserv Fees | Implement |
| None | None | Not listed | $140k custom integration | 5-6 months |
| Limited | Monthly Connection Plan | Plus (validated) | $60k Hosted or $70k On Premises | 2-4 months |
| Full | Monthly Connection & Distribution Plans and onetime $8k / bank environment | Premium (validated) | None if Fiserv Hosted or if On Premises and already has a Communicator Open connection | 1 month |
| Your Company | Your Customer | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Partnership | Purchase | Type listed in AppMarket | Fiserv Fees | Implement |
| None | None | Not listed | Custom Integration; Login to view. | 5-6 months |
| Limited | Monthly Connection Plan | Plus (validated) | Plus apps have a fixed fee. Login to view. | 2-4 months |
| Full | Monthly Connection & Distribution Plans and onetime $8k / bank environment | Premium (validated) | None if Fiserv Hosted or if On Premises and already has a Communicator Open connection | 1 month |
Sign up for free at the Developer Studio. In Banking Hub use the Workspace for live API testing. Sell your product to a bank. The bank will contact their Fiserv Relationship Manager for a Custom Integration, or the Bank will select Contact us for Custom integrations. See How to evaluate the type of partnership: none, limited or full for custom integration pricing where the fintech has no partnership.
For free Create Account in AppMarket. Fiserv vets via LexisNexis using D&B and FEIN. Log in, explore Banking Hub Connection plan, and meet the partnership team.
Create Account in AppMarket, Log into AppMarket, purchase a Banking Hub Connection plan includes continuing expert technical services consultation support. Discuss use cases and questions with assigned Fiserv project manager and Fiserv solution specialists.
Plan Options & Costs
For free Create Account in AppMarket and meet the partnership team. Then purchase a Banking Hub Connection plan
Have Fiserv validate how the app uses the APIs to be listed in AppMarket. Validated apps are listed in AppMarket at no additional cost.
- Connection: Includes test core and integration hours. When Fiserv validates how your app uses the APIs, you'll be listed in the AppMarket as a Plus app. Bank connections are free to you, but the bank pays for a 200-hr SOW. Each bank is connected in 2–4 months.
- Distribution: Fiserv validates how you app uses the APIs, then you’ll be listed in the AppMarket as a Premium (Quick Connect) app, 2 included bank connections, and thereafter $8k/env to you. Each bank connects in 30 days. If the bank’s platform is hosted by Fiserv, the bank pays nothing to Fiserv.
It is $140k for a custom integration and $60k for Plus app if your core is hosted by Fiserv and $70k if your core is on-prem.
- ½ the work/cost of a custom integration is validation of how APIs are being used.
- ½ the work/cost of a custom integration is setting up a Communicator Open environment
With a Plus app:
- How the APIs are setup and used and info the fintech needs setup that comes from the bank has already been documented and validated. So that half the cost goes away.
With a Premium app:
- The setting up of the Communicator Open environment was done and given to the Fintech (which they pay for in their Distribution plan) instead of done and given to the bank. So the other half the cost goes away.
To see the contract details in DocuSign, log into AppMarket – My Account – Dashboard – Explore Tab – Banking Hub Connection – Configure your plan
Validation & AppMarket Listing
- Create Account for AppMarket and Fiserv will contact you, discuss your partnership needs, approve you company for purchases.
- Log in to AppMarket – My Account – Dashboard – Explore – purchase a Connection plan. On Apps tab – Create App entering your app name, IP Ranges, DPoP - receive Integration key to your dedicated account processing platform - Take Survey supplying all APIs being used by your app. Incorporate the Integration key to your app. A Fiserv Project Manager will contact you to meet and discuss all the steps.
- Demonstrate to Fiserv in a meeting that your app has been built and integrated to your dedicated account processing platform with the Integration key and Fiserv API experts approve your solution to start validation.
- Log in to AppMarket – My Account – Dashboard – Apps tab – Submit the Validation Checklist (API request details) Fiserv Project Manager will contact you to meet and discuss the validation. Fiserv Implementation provides a Validation Key.
- Incorporate the Validation key to your app. A Fiserv Project Manager will contact you to meet Fiserv API experts to review API requests and responses. Fiserv API experts review the logs. Validation completes when responses meet expectations. Fiserv approves your validation and creates a Welcome Letter for your customers to provide configuration data. App is listed in AppMarket after you review the letter.
During validation, provide content for a test page. Post-validation and Welcome Letter approval, the page is published.
Sales & Marketing
- “Contact Me” in AppMarket sends email to your team and creates an Opportunity for Fiserv Relationship Manager.
Bank employees interested in your app should go to AppMarket, select your product page, then select Contact me. AppMarket notifies:
- The bank employee stating your company will contact them.
- Your company personnel with an AppMarket Account and who had selected to receive emails to sell your product to the bank employee.
- The Fiserv relationship manager assigned to that bank to assist in closing the sale.
- The Fiserv contracts team to give the Client Authorization Appendix to the Fiserv relationship manager for the bank employee to sign agreeing they want to share information with your company.
The Contact me button when selected immediately becomes the Implement button which the bank employee should select when ready for Fiserv to make the connection. After the bank signs the Client Authorization Appendix, Fiserv sends your Welcome Letter to the bank to collect their configuration settings needed to integrate your app. When the bank returns those answers your app is connected to the bank.
- Yes. You may also be invited to the Communicator Open Focus Group or invited by Fiserv relationship managers to groups run by financial institutions.
- After validation, send your logo, description, website link, video (optional), tags, and category. A sample: Example Page
Technical Details
- Premier, Precision, Cleartouch, Finxact, Signature. DNA is coming soon. Portico early 2026.
- Not currently in 2025. Contact Ed Kaplan (ed.kaplan@fiserv.com).
- A Fiserv Project Manager will assist you with setup and integration keys.
If you create an AppMarket account, are approved, and logged in, select Resources – Communicator Open Information – Submit idea. The roadmap is informed by your submissions and votes. If you have an open Fiserv project, inform you Fiserv project manager.
Data, Compliance & Support
- Only via the bank using Cognos or Business Analytics tools. Fiserv can assist via professional services.
- Only during validation. Additional due diligence is handled through Fiserv’s ControlPoint process if requested.
- Free: Developer Studio website documentation provided. Cannot submit questions.
- Connection Plan: 120 hours / year technical integration services.
- Distribution Plan: Unlimited production issue support.
Bank-Side Info
- 400-hr SOW
- 200-hr SOW (if Plus App)
- No SOW (if Quick Connect App)
- None, if Fiserv hosts their account processing platform. Also, none if the Financial Institution’s account processing platform is on their premises and they have previously connected any app using Communicator Open. If their account processing platform is on their premises and they have not previously connected any app using Communicator Open, fees apply.
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For Financial Institutions
For Fintechs
- Getting Started
- Evaluating a Fiserv Partnership
- Plan Options & Costs
- Validation & AppMarket Listing
- Sales & Marketing
- Technical Details
- Data, Compliance & Support
- Bank-Side Info