Payment routing

Payment routing on your rules

For each transaction, your application picks the provider, the merchant account and an ordered fallback list. Orchestra carries it out.

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Route across providers without building each one

Choosing a provider per transaction normally means building and maintaining an integration for each one. With Orchestra you build one integration, keep your own provider accounts, and decide where each payment goes. See how provider choice affects processing fees.

Route across 130+ providers

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How Orchestra solves it

Before Orchestra

Routing you build yourself

  • One integration per provider
  • Routing logic written and maintained in house
  • A new market or provider means another build
  • Each provider’s responses and decline reasons in a different format
  • Manual switches when a provider is down
  • Provider credentials stored in your own systems

With Orchestra

Routing with Orchestra

  • One integration to 130+ providers
  • Choose the provider and merchant account on each transaction
  • Set an ordered fallback list; Orchestra works down it until one succeeds
  • One standardized response, with decline reasons normalized
  • New providers added on request, in under two weeks, at no cost
  • Merchant credentials kept in Orchestra’s vault

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Your rules, on every request

Your application decides where each payment goes, using whatever logic suits your business, and sends the decision with the request. There is no routing screen to configure and nothing to deploy on our side.

Rules our customers use

By cost

Send each transaction type to the provider you pay least for it

By geography

EU transactions to EU-based processors

By merchant

Each of your merchants charged through its own provider account

Combined

Any mix of the above, with a fallback list behind it

// Your application picks the provider, merchant account and fallback order for each transaction
const response = await fetch('https://api.orchestrasolutions.com/PaymentGateway/charge', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'X-Api-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    amount: 25.00,
    currency: 'USD',
    paymentGatewayAccountName: 'stripeProduction',
    fallbackUpgs: [
      { paymentGatewayAccountName: 'adyenBackup' },
      { paymentGatewayAccountName: 'worldpayTertiary' }
    ],
    card: {
      cardNumber: '@nQGywsQE9gbURtrXEjTZwtWqeMdK9nsO',
      cardHolderName: 'Jane Smith',
      expirationMonth: 12,
      expirationYear: 2027
    }
  })
});

const result = await response.json();

Test routing in the sandbox immediately

One integration, every routing decision yours

Orchestra does not decide where your payments go. You do, and Orchestra takes on the work of connecting to every provider you choose.

All routing features included on every plan

Provider per transaction

Choose the PSP and merchant account on each request

Ordered fallback list

If a provider fails, Orchestra tries the next one in your list

Your own logic

Route by country, currency, card type, merchant or anything else you know

Insufficient-funds recovery

A partner model picks the best time to retry an insufficient-funds decline

Normalized responses

One response format and one set of decline reasons, whichever provider ran the payment

Change routing any time

Routing travels with each request, so a change applies to the next transaction

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See what orchestration looks like on your stack

Run a transaction through Orchestra’s sandbox, or talk to us about your current processor setup.

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