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Customer Initiated Payments

Hellgate® allows you to accept online payments directly from your website or application. There is no lock-in to any payment processor and the many flavors payments are integrated. You just have to implement your payment setup once.

A payment setup with Hellgate® consists of a back-end connection to our API and a front-end setup to interact with your customers. The back-end API is described on our API reference. The front-end can vary depending on the channel and the payment method you want to use. For the sake of explanation, we will use the example of a web application. The same principles apply to mobile applications, but the implementation details may vary.

Use-Cases​

Although many payment orchestration platforms don't differentiate between use-cases, we do. We built the system around a couple of use-cases. These use-cases bundle specific behavior and make it available on specific endpoints. This not only makes it easier to understand and implement, but also reduces the complexitiy (of payloads for instance) and reduces fricition and potential sources of error.

Processing​

The overall process of accepting online payments with Hellgate® is always the same.

  1. Request a payment on our API.
  2. Handle an action requirement on the front-end with our SDKs.
  3. Hellgate® will choose the processing setup based on the request and start the processing.
  4. You will receive a webhook notifications throughout the lifecycle of the payment.

Authentication / 3-D Secure​

In case 3-D Secure is configured for your account, Hellgate® will automatically handle the process. The above steps will not change. Learn more about Authentication.