What is payment orchestration? One layer to manage many payment providers
By SendPay Business · · 2 min read
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Payment orchestration is software that sits between a business and several payment providers. Instead of connecting to each processor separately, the business connects once, and the orchestration layer decides where each payment goes.
What it does
- Routes each payment to the provider most likely to approve it, or the cheapest.
- Retries a failed payment through a different provider.
- Keeps payments running if one provider has an outage.
- Shows all payment data in one place.
Orchestration vs a payment gateway
A payment gateway connects a checkout to one processor. An orchestration layer connects to many gateways and processors and chooses between them. It adds flexibility but also another system to manage.
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Who needs it
Orchestration mostly pays off for large merchants selling in many countries, where small improvements in approval rates or fees add up to a lot of money. Most small and growing businesses are better served by one reliable setup.
Where SendPay fits
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