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Elavon Live Payments is a new payments app for Microsoft 365 users that acquirer Elavon says it designed to make it easier for businesses to collect online payments. Microsoft 365 is a subscription-based productivity suite that includes Outlook, an email app.
Elavon Live Payments enables users to send invoices via integrations with Outlook or Teams, the Microsoft video-conferencing service. The integration means users don’t need to switch to a separate application when they are using Microsoft365 to send a request for payment. More than 1.3 million U.S. companies use Microsoft 365, according to ElectroIQ, a data site.
“Without this payments solution, a business owner or service provider may have to switch products or platforms to send an invoice and then wait days or weeks before getting paid,” says Pari Sawant, Elavon global chief product officer. “With Elavon Live Payments, small business owners can easily manage their calendars and receivables and collect payments all through Microsoft 365.”
Elavon Live Payments uses the Elavon Payments Gateway, which launched in 2024. Elavon says Live Payments is the first major embedded-payments expansion on the gateway.
The integration within Microsoft 365 can speed up payment collection because of its online component and its tie-in with a common productivity suite, Sawant says.
A Live Pay app is available in the Microsoft Marketplace. In addition to the ability to initiate a payment request, the app also provides payment-tracking insights, cash-flow management, and business-metric monitoring.
Elavon says Elavon Live Payments is available to both Windows and Apple Microsoft 365 subscribers. Security is handled by both Elavon and Microsoft, Sawant says. There is no cost to use Elavon Live Payments.
