Relay Payments · Dec 2025
Relay announced nationwide acceptance at TA, Petro Stopping Centers, and TA Express locations, giving it coverage across the three major U.S. travel-center chains.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 16, 2026
Overview
Relay Payments is an Atlanta-based fintech that operates a digital payment network for trucking and logistics. Its platform replaces cash, checks, fleet cards, and manual payment workflows with secure digital payments for fuel, lumper services, scales, cash advances, freight settlements, repairs, and other over-the-road expenses.
Primary product
A digital trucking-payments network, including Relay fuel and expense payments, RelayDirect for broker-to-carrier payments, RelayCodes, fraud controls, integrations, and expense-management tools.
Founded
2019
Headquarters
400 Galleria Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia 30339, United States
Team size
51-200
Industry
Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
Sub-industry
Fintech and digital payments for trucking, freight, and fleet operations
Offices
400 Galleria Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia 30339, United States
800 Battery Ave SE, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Business model
B2B payments processing
Transaction and service fees
Enterprise software and payment-platform contracts
Digital fuel and expense-payment network
Funding
Stage
Late-stage venture-backed private company; no publicly identified round after 2021
Total raised
$123M
Latest round
Venture round · Jul 2021
Latest amount
$44.7M
Mar 2021
People & investors
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
President and Co-Founder
Chief Technology Officer
Bianca Soliz Haynes
Vice President of Product Management
Executive Vice President of Operations and Partnerships
Charles O'Hara
Vice President, Inside Sales
Chad Blankenship
Vice President, Merchant Operations
Jessica Jolicoeur
Head of Credit Risk
Rob Shell
Vice President of Sales
William Davis
Vice President, Data Engineering
Craig Swidler
Vice President of Enterprise Sales
Matt Lisivick
Director of Engineering
Investors
Work & culture
Public hiring materials describe small cross-functional teams, high ownership, continuous learning, automated testing, CI/CD, agile and lean-startup practices, and a mission-oriented effort to modernize an industry historically reliant on cash and checks. Relay has also publicized awards for product innovation, customer service, and organizational culture.
Compensation
No reliable Relay-specific public compensation bands were found. Public engineering-role materials emphasize Go, distributed systems, APIs, reliability, testing, and AWS; third-party salary data found in search results was associated with Relay Network rather than Relay Payments and should not be applied.
Product & market
Pricing
Not publicly disclosed. Evidence indicates a transaction-based model involving payment-processing and service fees, with customer-specific fleet pricing, fuel discounts, and merchant economics rather than transparent public list pricing.
Differentiators
- —Purpose-built for trucking and logistics rather than general-purpose payments
- —Cardless digital payment workflows for fuel, lumpers, scales, repairs, and other over-the-road expenses
- —Large acceptance network spanning more than 3,000 truck-accessible merchants as of 2025
- —Fraud controls intended to reduce fuel-card skimming and unauthorized fuel purchases
- —Integrations with transportation-management, ELD, telematics, broker, accounting, and in-cab software
- —Combines carrier, broker, merchant, and driver workflows on one network
- —Reported zero fraud incidents across millions of transactions in a 2024 company announcement
- —Supports both expense payments and broker-to-carrier settlement through RelayDirect
Technology
Go
Python
Node.js
React
React Native
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Docker
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Redshift
dbt
SQL
Looker
Tableau
Salesforce
Twilio
OneSignal
HubSpot
Zendesk and Intercom
Customers
Pilot Flying J
Love's Travel Stops
TravelCenters of America / TA
Circle K
RaceTrac and RaceWay
Maverik
Yesway
AMBEST
Onvo Travel Plazas
Southern Tire Mart at Pilot
Boss Truck Shops
Schneider
Coyote Logistics
Old Dominion Freight Line
Lineage Logistics Gulf Relay and other carriers, brokers, fleets, and logistics companies
Competitors
WEX
WEX Fleet One
EFS
Comdata / Corpay
FleetCor
RTS Financial
RoadSync
Scale & contact
Estimated monthly visits
169.3K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
Relay Payments · Sep 2025
Circle K added more than 500 truck-accessible locations to Relay's network, which the company said then covered over 3,000 locations and supported more than 500,000 drivers and carriers.
Relay Payments · Aug 2025
Steam Logistics implemented RelayDirect to automate carrier payments, improve payment visibility, and reduce back-office work.
Relay Payments · Jun 2025
Relay expanded beyond fuel, lumper, and scale payments into repairs, tires, towing, preventive maintenance, and service locations through partnerships with Southern Tire Mart at Pilot, Boss Truck Shops, and AMBEST.
Relay Payments · Sep 2024
Relay announced its Love's integration, reporting more than 400,000 drivers, 100,000 carriers, and 2,200 truck stops, along with millions of transactions and no reported fraud incidents.
Jobs and careers at Relay Payments
4 jobs at Relay Payments
Customer Implementation Manager
On-site
Implementation
Atlanta, GA; Atlanta, Georgia, United States
5d ago
On-site
Full-time
Inside Sales Manager
On-site
Sales
Atlanta, GA; Atlanta, Georgia, United States
1mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Account Executive
On-site
Sales
Atlanta, GA; Atlanta, Georgia, United States
1mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Talent Community
On-site
Talent Community
Atlanta, GA; Atlanta, Georgia, United States
6mo ago
On-site
Full-time