Evention and FirstPay Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver End-to-End Payment and Reconciliation Automation
February 2, 2026 – FirstPay™, a next-generation intelligent cash processing and payment solutions provider from Secure Innovation Group, today announced a strategic partnership with Evention, the enterprise reconciliation and financial automation platform trusted by leading hospitality, retail, and multi-location enterprises worldwide.
The partnership brings together FirstPay’s hyper-flexible, cloud-based payment and cash processing platform with Evention’s automated reconciliation, compliance, and financial control infrastructure, creating a unified solution that connects front-office transactions to back-office financial accuracy—at scale.
As payment environments grow more complex, organizations are challenged not only to process transactions securely, but also to reconcile them accurately, consistently, and in near real time. Through this partnership, FirstPay and Evention enable enterprises to automate the full lifecycle of cash and payment operations from acceptance and processing to reconciliation, reporting, and audit readiness.
“FirstPay is designed to connect and automate complex payment estates across hardware, software, and service layers,” said Tony Westington – CEO – Secure Innovation Group. “By partnering with Evention, we extend that value beyond transaction processing into financial control, giving customers confidence that what is paid, processed, and settled is also fully reconciled and compliant.”
Evention’s platform automates reconciliation across cash, card, and payment data sources, replacing manual spreadsheets and fragmented workflows with standardized, transaction-level visibility. Integrated with FirstPay, customers gain a single, connected view of payment activity across locations, devices, and systems without increasing operational burden.
“Payments don’t stop at the point of transaction,” said Mike Baldinger, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Evention. “They must be reconciled, validated, and trusted. Our partnership with FirstPay delivers operational infrastructure that ensures payments are not only processed efficiently, but balanced accurately every day, at scale.”
The combined solution is designed for enterprises operating large, distributed estates, including hospitality groups, retailers, and organizations managing complex cash and self-service payment environments. Together, FirstPay and Evention support improved operational efficiency, reduced risk, faster financial close, and stronger audit outcomes.
FirstPay will make its official debut at EuroShop – The Global Retail Trade Fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, from 22–26 February 2026, where attendees can learn more about the partnership and its integrated approach to payment automation and financial reconciliation.
About FirstPay™
FirstPay™ is a new generation of intelligent cash processing and self-service payment solutions from Secure Innovation Group. Powered by a hyper-flexible, cloud-based SaaS platform, FirstPay connects front-office, back-office, kiosks, and cash-in-transit operations to deliver secure, automated, and scalable payment environments for global enterprises.
FirstPay™ – Pay Your Way.
About Evention
Evention helps hospitality, retail and entertainment operators eliminate revenue leakage, ensure compliance and free finance teams from manual work. Evention provides a unified financial truth layer that connects core operational systems, including POS, PMS, payments, labor and accounting, to automatically detect issues, trigger corrective actions using AI-driven automation and give teams complete visibility and control across their financial operations.
