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Payments engineering, in writing

Practical guides from a payments-native team: how to build hosted payment pages, how to keep PCI scope small, and how to decide when to build, buy, or partner. No fluff, just the things we wish more teams knew before they shipped.

2 min read

Embedded payments for ISVs: build, buy, or partner

Embedded payments sounds like one feature. It is really four products: checkout, payouts, onboarding, and reconciliation. Here is what each takes, and how ISVs should decide who builds them.

ISVs · Embedded Payments · Strategy

2 min read

Why payments software needs a double-entry ledger

The fastest way to lose trust in a payments product is a balance that does not tie out. Here is why money movement belongs in a double-entry ledger, and what a correct one looks like.

Ledgers · Processing · Architecture

2 min read

Payment gateway integration: what it actually takes

Connecting to a gateway looks like a weekend API job and turns into a multi-quarter project. Here is the work that actually sits between 'hello world' and money moving reliably in production.

Integrations · Gateways · Processors

5 min read

PCI scope reduction for ISVs adding payments

Adding payments to your software does not have to drag your whole stack into PCI scope. Here are the techniques and architecture choices that keep card data out of your systems.

PCI · ISVs · Architecture

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