PSP moves money from Buyer(through Issuing Bank) to Merchant(through acquiring bank)

It handles both the technical and financial parts.

payment gateway does only the verification and transmission to the PSP.

Reliability

Business

  1. Reconciliation
  2. Payment Status
  3. Handle Delays

Technical

  1. Redundancy
  2. Persistent Quuues
  3. Retry Strategies
  4. Idempotency
  5. Fault Tolerance

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