Payments Orchestration

Payments teams spend an average of 11.4% of engineering resources on payments work, much of it editing logic that already functions. This post traces the seven steps a routing, retry, or fraud change passes through before production, and shows how a workflow canvas removes most of them.

September 9, 2026

Most companies can't take their payment tokens with them when they switch processors. This post breaks down why token ownership drives PSP migration costs and what changes when you own your tokens instead.

July 28, 2026

A World Cup ticket is just the opening purchase in a chain that plays out across four unrelated industries, all running on payment infrastructure that was never built to work together.

July 28, 2026

Weekend transaction volume jumps 20%+ above weekday levels... every single week. We checked if the World Cup was the cause. It wasn't.

July 16, 2026

The companies negotiating hardest on PSP fees are usually the ones with the least leverage. Here's what actually shifts the balance, and why token portability and multi-provider routing beat renegotiation every time.

July 16, 2026

New data shows why companies that partially implement payment orchestration often see worse results than beginners, and what the five-capability audit that fixes it looks like.

July 15, 2026

The Model Context Protocol lets your AI coding tools talk directly to Spreedly's documentation and API. This guide covers what MCP is, which of Spreedly's two servers fits your use case, and how to configure either one — plus 25 ready-to-use queries for real integration work.

June 17, 2026

A single sprint ticket can quietly become one of your company's most consequential infrastructure decisions. This piece breaks down how payments vendor lock-in compounds over time, through token lock-in, feature dependency, and eroding negotiating leverage, and gives payments leaders a framework for bringing the conversation to the board.

May 15, 2026

One early architecture decision quietly determines how hard your payments team works for the next three years. Here's what it is, and how to get it right.

May 11, 2026

A falling fraud rate feels like a win. But if your analytics aren't measuring false declines alongside actual fraud losses, you're optimizing for the wrong outcome. Here's what payment fraud analytics should actually track.

May 11, 2026

A candid conversation with Ahmed Siddiqui on the future of payments, AI, Pix and UPI, and why trust, accountability, and human intent still shape commerce.

May 11, 2026

Discover why online checkouts fail and how optimizing payments can recover lost revenue.

May 11, 2026

Most online businesses lost 1/4 or more of their engineering teams' time to maintenance and new connection to payments tools. But you can stop it now.

May 11, 2026

Is your payment stack ready for Black Friday? We've got a checklist with action items you can use to make sure you're prepared.

May 11, 2026

Payments APIs are the backbone of the payments industry. Learn how they work, and what you should be looking for when you need one.

June 17, 2026

There are core issues that every SaaS business must pay attention in order to optimize their revenue. Here's what you need to be paying attention to.

May 11, 2026

The State of Checkout 2025 White Paper is ready! It has all the insights executives who manage payments need to get ready for the future.

May 11, 2026

Spreedly and Dodgeball have joined forces for better payments and fraud orchestration

May 11, 2026

Transform your tangled payments stack into a streamlined growth engine

May 11, 2026

Exploring the transition from Payment Orchestration to Open Payment Platforms

May 11, 2026

Explore future commerce with AI, voice interfaces, and open payment platforms

May 11, 2026

Discover how open payments platforms enhance flexibility and boost revenue

May 11, 2026

How open payment platforms transform strategy, enhance flexibility, and drive innovation

May 11, 2026

Exploring digital payment integration for diverse marketplace needs

May 11, 2026

Trace the evolution from closed systems to open payments, empowering merchants with flexibility and scalability

May 11, 2026

Recover maximizes revenue by retrying failed transactions at secondary gateways

May 11, 2026

Explore the build vs. buy debate in payments orchestration for merchants

May 11, 2026

Unlock flexibility and cost savings with open payments platforms and orchestration

May 11, 2026

Spreedly's Recover optimizes payments, boosts reliability, and increases revenue success

May 11, 2026

Leverage open payments for a diverse, optimized, best-of-breed payment stack

May 11, 2026

Spreedly and US Trans Corp discuss payment orchestration at PaymentsEd

July 29, 2026

Shifting corporate mindsets toward growth with open payments

May 11, 2026

The Evolving Definition of Payment Orchestration: Insights from MRC Las Vegas 2024

May 11, 2026

Understand how and why you can accept the increasing popular open banking payments for your business.

May 11, 2026

A comprehensive year-end review and what to expect looking forward into 2024 with Spreedly.

May 11, 2026

See how merchants can implement, orchestrate and optimize their payment stack.

May 11, 2026

Get an understanding of the different providers in the payments industry and how they work together.

May 11, 2026

Exploring insights from the Payment Landscape 2023 survey

May 11, 2026

Ambiguity around "Payments Orchestration" causes industry confusion, but its core is interconnectivity, offering businesses flexibility and vital insights.

May 11, 2026

See how collecting, analyzing, and visualizing business payment data can help grow your business.

May 11, 2026

True payment optimization cannot exist without payment orchestration

May 11, 2026

Learn how collecting and analyzing payment analytics can increase revenue.

May 11, 2026

How integrated payments work and the benefits of enabling and optimizing them.

May 11, 2026

What your marketplace payment system needs to succeed in 2023

May 11, 2026

Why payment orchestration is vital for optimizing your subscription platform

May 11, 2026

How platforms can leverage Payments Orchestration to create smoother payments for their sub-merchants

May 11, 2026

May 11, 2026

Defining both payment orchestration and payment optimization and how merchants can succeed with both

July 15, 2026

May 11, 2026

Building the best payments infrastructure to seamlessly meet customers where they are, goes a long way in building the required value to add your next subscriber.

May 11, 2026

Why Merchant Aggregators are looking to Payments Orchestration platforms for help scaling

May 11, 2026

Employ Payments Orchestration to increase customer purchase cycle completion

May 11, 2026

May 11, 2026

As the number of transactions increase, providing a great consumer experience and accepting payments becomes more critical than ever. And while there are many ways to do both of these, one often overlooked area for improvement is in the payments flow. Welcome to payments orchestration.

May 11, 2026

This short video provides an overview of how Payments Orchestration enables you to effectively optimize your payments transactions and deliver higher success rates with more flexibility.

May 11, 2026

From the Spreedly Vantage, there was a 17% increase in charitable donations during the COVID crisis. Donations peaked in the US during spring, declined in summer, and then reached a new high in H2 2020.

May 11, 2026

From the Spreedly Vantage, we see a 37% increase in online travel, hospitality, and transportation transactions over five weeks. The pandemic is far from over, and we must remain vigilant. Are we seeing the early signs of a break out?

May 11, 2026

Utilize analytics to enhance your payments

May 11, 2026

The many advantages of implementing Payments Orchestration as a merchant of record

May 11, 2026

Things to consider before starting a Payments Orchestration implementation.

May 11, 2026

This short video provides an overview of how Payments Orchestration gives you rich insight into your payments data, plus access to data across payment service providers globally.

May 11, 2026

Order ahead has become a new necessity in the market. Consumers that have experimented with it appear to be sufficiently satisfied with the experience that they are expanding their purchase sizes.

May 11, 2026

How Payments Orchestration made headway in 2022 and continues to be a staple for e-commerce in 2023 and beyond

May 11, 2026

How fintechs can effectively utilize Payments Orchestration for increased ROI

May 11, 2026

We’re re-sharing the best vlogs from our Business Models series which identified and highlighted specific end user persona's and how Payments Orchestration solves each persona's challenge strategically

May 11, 2026

An introduction to what needs Payments Orchestration fills.

May 11, 2026

The first in a video series which takes a deep dive into how the world’s most successful organizations solve their business pains with Payments Orchestration, the session gives us an overview of what Payments Orchestration is.

May 11, 2026

Payments Orchestration helps gateways and PSPs strengthen and deepen their offerings to digital merchants in a few very important ways.

May 11, 2026

Consumers expect and crave digital experiences. These digital experiences, including the purchase, must be easy, intuitive, and frictionless. Payments will continue to play a pivotal role in the growth of the digital goods industry.

May 11, 2026

We’re re-sharing the best vlogs from our Business Drivers series which unveiled specific business challenges and addressed how Payments Orchestration solves each challenge uniquely

May 11, 2026

This short video provides an overview of how Payments Orchestration helps every payment participant — from merchants and platforms, to payment gateways and related services — to securely connect and transact.

May 11, 2026

We’re re-sharing the best vlogs from our Spreedly Solutions Stack series which highlighted specific business challenges and how Payments Orchestration solves each.

May 11, 2026

Uncap your digital commerce's full potential by utilizing payment orchestration to expand globally

May 11, 2026

We’re re-sharing the best videos from 2020 which highlight specific business challenges and how Payments Orchestration addresses each.

May 11, 2026

Our teams are always seeking ways to share resources and educate on how the fast evolving payments industry impacts your business, your customers and their needs. Following is a recent “Business Impact Brief” published by the team at 451 Research (part of S&P Global Market Intelligence) focused on Payments Orchestration and Optimization.

May 11, 2026

It sounds great to increase success rates, but how does that equate to actual revenue? How can I justify this cost of services like Spreedly to my boss or my board? We will answer these questions and more in this post.

May 11, 2026

While payments can be a fun and compelling industry to work in, keeping up with the pace of change in payments can be a tough challenge, even for the most seasoned payments pros. Here are some tips to keep up

May 11, 2026

Working with multiple PSPs and routing your transactions is a great way to begin optimizing your revenue, but it only addresses one half of building a payments system. There’s still the possibility of revenue loss when your own system isn’t robust enough to handle the many different failure scenarios it’s likely to encounter.

May 11, 2026

The many benefits Payments Orchestration can provide to merchant aggregators

May 11, 2026

May 11, 2026

What makes a great payments orchestration solution? What elements should you look for when considering a solution? We take a look at the seven attributes that we recommend when selecting a Payments Orchestration partner.

May 11, 2026

Leverage Spreedly's subject matter experts to achieve your business goals

May 11, 2026

Leading merchants recognize that a great customer experience falls flat if the payment experience is poor. Learn how Payments Orchestration helps keep your customers coming back.

May 11, 2026

Platforms that want to succeed are leaning into the rapid evolution of payments. They are working in a durable multi-gateway strategy, and taking advantage of the go-to-market speed they can gain through Payments Orchestration.

May 11, 2026

Everything you need to know about Payments Orchestration and how it can be of benefit to your business

May 11, 2026

What happens when a digital product agency, a payments orchestration company and an AZA-accredited zoo join forces to tackle payments? Listen in and learn more.

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