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Plan your payment integration

Turn your customer journey into a technical plan with clear events, system responsibilities and exception handling.

1. Map the customer journey

Document where payment begins, whether a redirect is involved and what customers see after success, failure or abandonment.

2. Assign sources of truth

Agree how your systems confirm transaction status. Distinguish customer-facing return pages from the provider’s authoritative transaction updates.

3. Plan exceptions

Discuss interrupted requests, retries, duplicate events, delayed responses, refunds and reconciliation. Confirm exact behavior using provider documentation.

4. Separate testing and launch

Agree on test credentials, supported test scenarios, ownership of acceptance testing and the criteria for production readiness.

5. Prepare the operations team

Make sure support teams understand order references, payment statuses, escalation routes and where to find reconciliation information.

Use the selected provider’s current technical documentation to confirm interfaces and event behavior.

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