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The right payment gateway, processor, and orchestrator matters

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Basis Theory
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Summary

Payment processors move funds between customers and merchants through card networks and other payment methods, while payment gateways provide merchant-facing technology, support, predictable pricing, and connections to processors; in practice, many major providers now perform both roles. Payment orchestrators add a decisioning layer that lets merchants route individual transactions among multiple processors and gateways based on factors such as approval rates, pricing, risk, payment type, and chargeback exposure, although they do not process payments themselves. Rather than choosing only one provider type, merchants can combine gateways, processors, and orchestration to improve transaction success, reduce costs, support more payment methods, and avoid dependence on a single provider. Effective orchestration depends on secure tokenization, programmable APIs or SDKs, and clear data portability if a merchant changes partners or brings payment operations in-house.

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