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Understanding VTEX Payments architecture
VTEX's payment systems offer extensive resources to support various payment methods, conditions, and integrations. See below some articles that show a little more about the concepts and our payments architecture:
Developing a payment integration at VTEX
Once you understand how payments are processed on VTEX, you can join our platform by developing integrations as a payment, anti-fraud, or external gift card provider:
Payment provider integration
Payment providers can implement their integrations using our Payment Provider Protocol. This protocol enables providers to create a payment connector that interacts with our Gateway and contains the endpoints described in our Payment Provider Protocol API. Besides developing the connector, providers must also test them and ensure they follow the required security standards before they can be available to the stores.
To learn all the steps necessary to develop and customize your payment integration on our platform, access the following articles:
Anti-fraud provider integration
Anti-fraud solutions are essential to ensure secure payment transactions by carrying out risk analyses. VTEX offers integration capabilities for anti-fraud systems through the Anti-fraud Provider Protocol. This protocol is an agreement between VTEX and providers, defining a set of rules that must be implemented during the development of integrations. Each integration must include a set of endpoints defined in our Anti-fraud Provider Protocol API.
External gift card provider integration
On VTEX, gift cards are treated as a payment method, and their transactions are processed at Checkout. In addition to our native solution, VTEX allows external gift card providers to implement integrations using our Giftcard Provider Protocol. Through this protocol, providers can develop a middleware containing the endpoints described in our Giftcard Provider Protocol API and connect with our Giftcard Hub. You can check more details about gift cards in the articles below: