Debt-collection agencies take payments in unusual ways. A consumer may pay in full, accept a settlement offer, agree to an instalment plan, or promise to pay on a date, by card or bank debit, over the phone or through a portal. Every cent must trace back to a specific debt account. We designed a multi-tenant platform that sits between agencies and payment processors: it accepts card and ACH payments, schedules plans, handles returns and disputes, and reconciles everything against processor repor...
Architecture of a payment orchestration platform: PCI scope, ledger, retries, disputes
We designed a multi-tenant payment platform for debt-collection agencies: card and ACH, one-time and recurring plans, settlement offers, disputes and reconciliation. Here is how we kept PCI scope small, why the ledger is double-entry and immutable, and how retries stay safe.
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