Shopify and Solidgate Unlock Smarter Payments for Merchants
Hey Payments Fanatic!
Shopify and Solidgate are taking their partnership further. With the new Solidgate Payments App now live, merchants can access smarter payment orchestration, without leaving the Shopify environment.
The integration connects Shopify sellers directly to Solidgate’s infrastructure, giving them more control over how transactions are handled.
With just a few clicks, Shopify merchants can activate Solidgate’s infrastructure. That means fewer failed payments, local method support, and built-in smart routing. Setup is fast. Control is back in merchants’ hands.
Max Botyk, Solidgate’s Business Development Executive, puts it clearly: “Payments are too often a black box – expensive, fragile, and disconnected from business goals. This integration puts merchants back in control.”
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Over the past two decades, the payments ecosystem has undergone three fundamental shifts:
→ From static, rigid infrastructure
→ To programmable orchestration
→ To real-time, reasoning intelligence
This post brings the full transformation together in a single strategic framework.
𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 1 — 2000s: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐄𝐫𝐚
🔹 Characteristics:
Merchants relied on single PSP setups, limited routing, and siloed data. Fraud was handled manually. Reconciliation was slow and error-prone.
🔹 Key Constraints:
→ No fallback logic or retry mechanisms
→ No fraud orchestration or dynamic controls
→ Data scattered across PSPs, acquirers, and tools
🔹 Business Impact:
→ Failed transactions = lost revenue
→ Limited visibility into payment performance
→ No ability to optimize or adapt in real time
➡️ Payments were operational—but not strategic.
𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 2 — 2010s: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬
🔹 The Evolution:
The rise of payment orchestration decoupled logic from providers, enabling intelligent routing, backup PSPs, tokenization, and unified reporting.
🔹 Technical Capabilities Introduced:
→ Routing engines (BIN, amount, geography)
→ Automated transaction recovery
→ Real-time fraud controls and smart 3DS
→ Centralized reconciliation and compliance
→ Token vaulting and PSP abstraction
🔹 Strategic Benefits:
✅ Increased approval rates
✅ Improved cost efficiency
✅ Faster market expansion
✅ Better governance and reporting
➡️ Payments became a modular, resilient system for growth.
𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 3 — 2020s: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐚𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞
🔹 The Shift:
We are now entering a phase where payments infrastructure doesn’t just execute—it reasons.
🔹 Why This Matters:
Despite orchestration, over $300B is lost annually due to missed opportunities, fragmented data, and reactive operations.
🔹 What Defines Agentic Payments Intelligence:
1️⃣ Unified, intelligent data layer
→ Structures commerce, payments, fraud, and behavioral data into a single, actionable foundation.
2️⃣ Context-aware reasoning engine
→ Detects issues, trends, and opportunities based on business context—not static rules.
3️⃣ Real-time execution framework
→ Automates action: retry logic, provider switching, checkout optimization, and more.
➡️ Payments now serve as a strategic decisioning engine—not just infrastructure.
The future of commerce will belong to those who evolve with the stack.
From infrastructure → to orchestration → to intelligence.
Source: DEUNA
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