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Gain total control over your payment flows with Hellgate CPA’s composable, provider-agnostic architecture.

Accelerate payment processing with flexible orchestration and integrated compliance.

Efficiently orchestrate payments with seamless integration and real-time monitoring.

Securely manages sensitive payment data while minimizing PCI compliance scope.

Protects businesses against fraud with real-time, AI-driven insights and actions.

Streamline global payment integrations through a unified connectivity layer.

Gain real-time insights and control over payment flows with Pulse’s robust observability features.

Capabilities that coordinate routing, retries, and rule-based payment flows across multiple providers to maximize approvals and reduce custom infrastructure.

Secure token lifecycle, vaulting, and network tokenization to reduce PCI scope and enable portable tokens across providers.

Real-time fraud intelligence, adaptive risk profiling, graph-based relationship mapping, and automated blocking to reduce fraud and false positives.

Pre-built connectors, data normalization, secure credential management, health monitoring, and failover to simplify integrations with PSPs and acquirers.

Event streaming, unified metrics, anomaly detection, and end-to-end traceability for monitoring payment performance and operational optimization.

Hellgate CPA

Hellgate CPA is an open, provider-agnostic composable payments architecture that plugs into existing stacks. It is not a single platform but a suite of independent components that you can use as needed to design, own, and control payment flows, with no vendor lock-in. The architecture supports modular orchestration, tokenization, fraud protection, data security, and observability across the entire payment stack.

• Modular Payments Architecture
  Helps build a tailored payment solution without vendor dependency.
• Automated Payment Routing
  Optimizes transaction flows and enhances approval rates.
• Enhanced Data Security
  Minimizes compliance burdens while ensuring safe data storage.
• Live Performance Monitoring
  Facilitates quick insights and proactive adjustments to payment strategies.
• No Vendor Dependency
  Allows integration flexibility and competitive pricing.
• Flexible Component Usage
  Tailors the payment solution to specific business needs.
• Improved Transaction Success
  Reduces declines due to expired cards and enhances security.
• Adaptive Fraud Prevention
  Stays ahead of evolving fraud patterns to protect revenue.

Commerce

Commerce is the fast lane into Hellgate CPA. It is the opinionated payment service designed for fast-moving teams, handling routing, retries, and provider abstraction with turnkey orchestration built on the CPA framework.

• Avoid Vendor Lock-In
  Maintain independence by connecting with any acquirer or PSP, ensuring flexibility in your payment infrastructure.
• Optimize Payment Success
  Ensure higher authorization rates by dynamically routing transactions based on real-time conditions and retrying where necessary.
• Gain Full Transparency
  Monitor every payment event from initiation to completion, ensuring optimal routing and compliance adherence.
• Speed to Market
  Go live quickly by leveraging established integrations and compliance patterns tailored for various industries.
• Reduce Compliance Burden
  Transition to a secure payment environment effortlessly with compliance baked into the payment flows.
• Seamlessly Integrate Payments
  Easily incorporate payment features into your application with minimal impact on your development timelines.
• Simplify Setup
  Easily implement proven payment orchestration strategies without heavy infrastructure overhead.
• Protect Revenue
  Utilize adaptive insights to minimize losses from fraud while maximizing successful transactions.

Hub

Hub is the brain of Hellgate CPA. It links acquirers, PSPs, and fraud prevention tools into one coordinated system, routing every transaction intelligently and handling retries automatically—eliminating custom infrastructure.

• Optimize Payment Flows
  Control transaction paths dynamically without the need for custom code, enhancing both efficiency and security.
• Enhance Flexibility
  Develop adaptable solutions capable of leveraging different payment providers as business needs evolve.
• Integrate Effortlessly
  Seamlessly connect various components for a cohesive payment ecosystem, avoiding lock-in with any single provider.
• Ensure Transaction Integrity
  Gain actionable insights into payment flows to identify issues early and optimize transaction performance.
• Accelerate Deployment
  Quickly implement proven routing strategies to streamline operations, reducing time-to-market for new payment features.

Guardian

Guardian is the PCI Vault & Tokenization module that isolates sensitive data and reduces PCI scope, enabling universal token management across providers. It is designed to integrate with the CPA fabric and support tokenization across multiple networks.

• Integrate Seamlessly
  Guardian integrates directly with the CPA architecture, enhancing security and compliance with seamless interactions across modules.
• Enhance Authorization Rates
  Utilizes network-issued tokens to facilitate continuous transaction processing, reducing declines and increasing successful payments.
• Minimize Compliance Burden
  Isolated storage of sensitive data ensures compliance is easier and less costly by limiting the scope of required security audits.
• Achieve Token Portability
  Guardian manages network tokens that remain compatible across various providers, enabling flexible transaction routing and improving operational agility.
• Secure Sensitive Transactions
  Provides a dedicated PCI-compliant vault, ensuring that cardholder data is stored securely and is never exposed to the business's internal systems.
• Authenticate Transactions
  Guardian validates user identities and payment methods instantly, ensuring that all transactions originate from trusted sources.
• Improve Fraud Detection
  Adding metadata to transactions aids analytics processes, which improves fraud detection accuracy and operational insights.

Specter

Specter is the Fraud Intelligence Layer. It provides AI-powered fraud detection and graph-based relationship analysis to identify coordinated fraud across the CPA ecosystem, with real-time decisioning and integration with other fraud tools.

• Automates Fraud Prevention
  Leverages AI to continuously analyze transactions, identifying and stopping fraud before it can affect your revenue.
• Instantly Prevents Fraudulent Transactions
  Stops fraudulent activities in real-time, ensuring smooth transaction processes for legitimate users.
• Uncovers Hidden Fraud Patterns
  Utilizes graph technology to connect different points of data, revealing relationships that signify organized fraud.
• Seamlessly Connects To Existing Solutions
  Plug Specter into your existing stack to enhance your fraud detection capabilities without extensive redevelopment.
• Centralizes Risk Insights
  Provides a comprehensive view of risks associated with transactions, helping businesses make informed decisions.
• Improves Accuracy Over Time
  As Specter processes more transactions, it gets smarter in identifying genuine users, reducing unnecessary manual reviews.

Link

Link provides PSP Abstraction—connects to acquirers, PSPs, and data providers through a single, unified layer. It offers pre-built connectors, data normalization, secure credential management, and health monitoring to keep integrations reliable.

• Instant Provider Access
  Pre-built connectors allow users to access global acquirers and PSPs instantly, simplifying integrations and minimizing onboarding time.
• Optimize Integrations
  The unified connectivity layer allows businesses to connect to multiple acquirers and services through a single interface, greatly simplifying integration efforts.
• Ensure Reliability
  Health monitoring proactively ensures system uptime by monitoring connections and rerouting traffic seamlessly if a provider experiences downtime.
• Manage Credentials Securely
  Link's secure credential management handles provider credentials within the compliance framework, ensuring secure storage and management.
• Standardize Data Behavior
  Automatic data normalization ensures every connection behaves consistently across the CPA ecosystem, reducing integration complexities.

Pulse

Pulse is the Observability & Metrics layer. It streams events, surfaces anomalies, and delivers a unified metrics dashboard across Commerce, Hub, Guardian, and Specter, enabling real-time visibility and optimization.

• Seamlessly Connects With CPA
  Integration with other CPA components allows for a fluid data exchange, enabling comprehensive visibility and operational enhancement across the entire payment ecosystem.
• Automatically Informs Of Anomalies
  Pulse continuously monitors transaction flows, ensuring that any irregularities are flagged in real-time to maintain optimal performance.
• Delivers Live Event Monitoring
  Pulse provides continuous event streaming, which allows teams to maintain immediate oversight of transaction statuses and operational health.
• Centralizes Performance Insights
  Offers one cohesive interface to monitor all critical metrics, enhancing decision-making processes through data-backed insights.
• Provides Full Transaction Traceability
  Users can follow every transaction step in real-time, ensuring transparency and allowing quick responses to any issues that arise during processing.