Your Business Is Working Hard.
The Systems Behind It Should Be Too.
At Secure Stream, we help business owners stop losing money to payment fees, disconnected systems, and missed opportunities — and start running the operation they actually built.
The Problem Most Business Owners Don’t See
You didn’t go into business to become an expert in payment processing, commercial lending, or digital marketing. You went into business because you’re good at what you do — and you built something worth running.
The payment setup was good enough at the time. The loan never came through. The marketing always felt like something to deal with later. And later has a way of becoming never — while the business quietly costs more and earns less.
The frustrating part isn’t just the money. It’s that most of the people offering to help are selling you something. The merchant services rep who promises savings but buries the fees. The lender who says no without explanation. The marketing agency that delivers a report you can’t read.
What you need is someone who understands your world well enough to give you a straight answer — not someone trying to close a deal.
What We Do
Payment Processing
What you need is someone who understands your world well enough to give you a straight answer — not someone trying to close a deal.
Marketing & Visibility
The right clients are out there looking — the question is whether they find you. We build targeted marketing strategies for the industries we serve that drive real, measurable growth.
Lending & Capital
We work with a network of over 150 lending products across 67 lenders — capital credit, equipment financing, cash flow financing, AR financing, SBA loans, debt restructuring, and more — matched to your specific situation, not a generic template.
The Cost of Waiting
Every month the status quo costs you more than it looks like on the surface. The processors collecting fees you didn’t know you were paying. The clients who searched for you online and found a competitor. The capital sitting unavailable when you needed it. The gap is real — and it compounds.
Success
Lower processing costs – Systems that work together – Faster access to capital – New clients finding you.
Testimonials
Who You’re Working With
Before Samantha Strauss was a payment professional, she was a small business owner — and payments became something she had to figure out firsthand, not as a consultant, but as an owner trying to make her operation work.
Her path into merchant services didn’t start in a corporate office or a financial services firm. It started on the wrong side of the terminal. The fees that weren’t clearly explained. The gap between what a processor promised and what actually showed up on a statement. These weren’t abstract problems — they were her problems.
Working through them is what taught her the industry. And once she understood it, she saw something that pulled her in a different direction: most small business owners were dealing with the same frustrations she had — and most of them didn’t have anyone in their corner who would give them a straight answer about it. Four years ago, she built Secure Stream to change that.
Alongside her background as a business owner, Samantha is a Licensed Veterinary Technician and holds the Certified Payments Professional (CPP) designation — one of the most rigorous credentials in the payment industry. That combination gives her rare insight into the industries she serves and the problems her clients face.
When you work with Secure Stream, you’re working with Samantha directly. Not a junior associate, not an account manager. The person who understands your business is the person who stays involved with it.