Engineering payment flexibility

Part 1: The client

A surging company providing recurring billing and subscription management for media and entertainment platforms, helping mid-size and enterprise brands.

Part 2: The challenge

Expansion into MENA, LATAM, and Southeast Asia exposed the limits of a single-PSP setup. Payment approval rates and revenue fell, and engineering efforts became unsustainable. The team needed a scalable, orchestrated solution, without rebuilding their payment stack.

Part 3: The solution

Oxagile brought in technical strategy and integration expertise, building a flexible orchestration layer on top of Primer, to streamline connections with PSPs like Adyen, Yuno, and regional providers. This enabled faster onboarding, higher payment approval rates, and full control over payments.

The impact in numbers

20-30%


Projected boost in payment approval rates in key regions

100%


Control over workflows via orchestration setup

80% faster


Processor integration, cut from months to weeks

Solution delivered: tailored integration enabling smarter payment routing

To speed up PSP onboarding and reduce failures, Oxagile designed a custom integration solution tailored to the client’s specific business needs. We worked closely with their team to understand priorities and constraints. Based on that, we proposed a flexible architecture for diverse integrations and future growth.

Custom orchestration layer
  • API-first architecture designed for PSP agility
  • Event-driven microservices for distributed payment logic
  • Domain-driven design for clean codebase
  • Seamless integration with Primer and SRM system
Infrastructure and security foundation
  • Infrastructure as code with SST and version control
  • Secure credential management with AWS Vault
  • Scalable handling of 10K+ requests/sec under load
  • Automated testing and CI/CD for safe deployments

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Beyond the bottlenecks: a smarter payment flow

Approval gaps in growth regions

Global transactions in MENA, LATAM, and SEA were often declined due to misaligned data formatting and the lack of local PSP coverage.

How Oxagile solved it

Implemented an orchestration layer (Primer) that supports both local payment methods and existing gateways like Yuno and Adyen — enabling alignment with regional issuer protocols and reducing false declines. The solution runs on a cloud-native, event-driven architecture using AWS Lambda, SQS, SNS, and S3.

Costly and lengthy custom integrations

Each new PSP required months of development and QA tests, delaying market entry and eating up internal resources.

How Oxagile solved it

Used an orchestration platform with a visual editor for payment flows to accelerate PSP integration — cutting development efforts and enabling business teams to roll out new connections in weeks instead of months.

Rigid routing, higher declines

Static processor selection and basic retry attempts couldn’t adapt to real-time payment behavior, leading to avoidable drop-offs.

How Oxagile solved it

Developed a flexible, rule-based engine for routing and retries based on transaction metadata, optimizing success rates and minimizing revenue leakage.

Few performance insights

The team lacked granular insights into what was working (or failing) across payment flows.

How Oxagile solved it

Built analytics dashboards to track PSP-level metrics like approval rates, decline reasons, and latency. This enabled faster diagnosis and strategic improvements.

No backup = lost revenue

Dependency on a single PSP meant outages could stop transactions entirely.

How Oxagile solved it

Introduced multi-processor redundancy to automatically reroute transactions, ensuring business continuity even during outages.

The backbone: modern serverless stack in action

Architecture

AWS cloud-native architecture • Event-driven design

Core AWS Services

AWS Lambda • Amazon SQS • Amazon SNS • Amazon S3

Languages & Frameworks

JavaScript • Node.js • AWS CDK • Serverless framework

No more 2 A.M. pager panic

We stepped in to re-architect the client’s system for reliability and observability, ensuring their platform stays up, support costs go down, and SLA targets are actually achievable.

Tailored SLA strategies

  • Reliability built for business needs
  • 99.99% uptime targets
  • Clear maintenance interfaces for payments

Proactive monitoring & observability

  • Replaced user-reported issues with real-time monitoring
  • Instant alerts to the client’s team
  • Issues flagged before users notice disruptions

Cost-efficient reliability

  • Automated detection, reporting, and recovery
  • Reduced dependence on costly Ops teams
  • Enabled scaling without extra IT overhead

From the dev floor

“What made this project stand out was the combination of strict compliance requirements, complex retry logic, and the need for fast, reliable execution. We didn’t just integrate PSPs, we built a system enabling business teams to onboard new providers in weeks. The solution offered full observability into transaction flows and performance. Payments became a strategic tool, not just backend plumbing.”

— Solution Architect, Oxagile

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