Accelerated Payment Technologies provides payment processing and integrated retail solutions to small- and medium-sized merchants. The Accelerated Payment Technologies platform provides a single integration point and a highly flexible platform that provides gateway, middleware and back-end technologies that hasten and simplify the integration of payment processing into critical business applications.In August 2012, Global Payments acquired Accelerated Payment Technologies from Great Hill Partners. The valuation of Accelerated Payment Technologies was $413 million.