Glossary
Payment orchestration
The layer that routes each transaction across multiple gateways and acquirers using configurable rules, failover and retries.
Orchestration exists because most enterprises end up with more than one payment provider — for redundancy, cost, geography or local methods — and managing them as separate integrations becomes unsustainable.
The orchestration layer provides one integration for the business, decides per transaction which provider to use, retries intelligently on failure, normalizes provider responses into a single status model and consolidates reporting.
What it covers in practice
- One integration instead of one per provider
- Automatic failover when a provider degrades
- Cost-based and success-rate-based routing