
Learn how payment routing boosts approvals and lowers costs. Explore Orchestra’s API-driven routing to simplify flows and recover lost sales.

Payment processors and payment gateways handle different parts of every card transaction. Here’s how to tell them apart, how they work together, and why a payment orchestration layer makes managing both easier.

U.S. merchants paid $187.2 billion in card processing fees in 2024. Here are proven strategies to lower credit card processing fees, from interchange-plus pricing and chargeback reduction to multi-provider routing that cuts costs by 30-40%.