Q2 Innovation Studio

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Q2 Innovation Studio: Build on your terms, partner with confidence

The most successful financial institutions use Q2 Innovation Studio to control their digital destiny, building and partnering on the same foundation Q2 uses internally, all inside a single, governed environment.
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Build, partner, and launch with ease

Financial institutions have always been at the mercy of their vendors to deliver new capabilities and do what they want with their technology. With Q2 Innovation Studio, you control your own digital destiny.

Build your own solutions

Bring more personalization to your digital banking with robust developer tools and documentation—with your own team, or our certified development partners.

Partner with fintechs

Go beyond traditional banking by choosing pre-built integrations with 150+ fintech solutions that expand your offerings into banking-adjacent categories.  

Differentiate your FI

Add valuable services that help you win and serve key account holder segments, like accounting and payroll for SMBs or financial wellness tools for younger consumer generations.

Earn non-interest income

Generate more income through Q2's Marketplace revenue share model, where account holders discover and adopt partner solutions directly inside digital banking through My Toolkit.

Two paths, one ecosystem—build or partner inside a single platform

Q2 Innovation Studio gives financial institutions two paths to extend their digital banking experience. Build on the same full-stack platform Q2 uses internally, or deploy from a curated ecosystem of 215+ pre-integrated partner solutions.

Partner and integrate with ease

Choose from a wide and varied range of superior fintech solutions and quickly launch them to meet account holders’ specific needs and return to the center of their financial journey.

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No hassle fintech integrations

Fintechs can use the SDK to quickly integrate their products to the Q2 platform, and offer them in our partner ecosystem for financial institutions to simply activate.

Deposit Growth
  • Finit Refer
  • ModernFi
  • Plinqit
  • Pulsate
  • TruStage
  • ZSuite
SMB
  • Autobooks
  • Homebase
  • Hurdlr
  • Monit
  • upSWOT
  • WorkforceGo
Payments
  • Alacriti
  • Allied
  • CXI
  • Neural
  • PayRecs
  • Veem
Fraud/Security
  • BioCatch
  • Carefull
  • DefenseStorm
  • Entersekt
  • HID Global
  • ThreatMark
Financial Wellness
  • Array
  • Experian
  • Plinqit
  • SavvyMoney
  • Trustworthy
  • Zogo
Digital Engagement
  • Agent IQ
  • Finotta
  • Glia
  • Larky
  • Personetics
  • Posh

  • 90%+ of Q2 Customers Actively Use Innovation Studio

    Reaching 4.5M account holders
  • 300+ FIs use Innovation Studio
  • 50+ Partner solutions available in Innovation Studio

Reduce time and cost to deploy by 70%+

Q2 works with partners to build and maintain a single integration to the platform, then conducts code analysis, app deployment testing, and integration review before an FI ever activates it.

Build and extend the platform however you see fit

The Q2 Developer Platform gives FIs full-stack access across the front end, the back end, APIs, and mobile to build on the same infrastructure Q2 uses internally. Build alone, collaborate with Q2-certified developers, or use Q2 Code, a governed AI development environment that validates every extension against Q2's platform before production. Q2 manages deployment, hosting, and monitoring, so teams can focus on innovation, not infrastructure.

See how

  • A proven SDK

    1000+ Extensions already in production on Q2's Developer Platform

  • 100+ FI customers
  • 1000+ External developers

What FIs are saying:

  • "If a solution doesn't integrate with Q2, we're not interested. We rally around Q2 Innovation Studio partners to optimize our speed to market."

    Jesus Garcia
    OceanAir Federal Credit Union SVP & Chief Experience Officer
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  • "Utilizing Q2 Innovation Studio and building our own API exchanges unlocked almost unlimited potential. We can accomplish what we need internally—and let members accomplish what they want for themselves."

    Bryce Snyder
    UCCU Software Engineering Manager
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