Use case summary
Corefy maintains the integration with each provider, so your backend keeps one interface while provider APIs change behind it. When a provider deprecates a field or moves an endpoint, the fix happens inside the connector. Result: each provider you add joins a set someone else keeps current, and your engineering load stays flat as coverage grows.
- Developers & CTO
- Payment Ops
Why a payment integration is never finished
A payment integration is not a project that ends. Every provider you connect ships API changes on its own schedule: deprecated parameters, new required fields, rotated certificates, moved endpoints, error codes that mean something different than they did last quarter.
None of it arrives as a roadmap item. It arrives as a deprecation notice in an email somebody may or may not have read, or as transactions failing at three in the morning with a code nobody recognizes.
Then multiply by the number of providers. Part of it is scheduled, because the card networks publish their release dates a year ahead. The rest is not, and either way, each connection carries its own version of the same change, in its own format, on its own timeline.
How connector maintenance moves off your team
A connector is a maintained integration with one provider, exposed to you through a single interface. You integrate with that interface once, and keeping the provider side valid isn't your job.
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Integrate against one interface
Connectors are ready-made integrations that unify APIs, authentication, webhooks, fields, and error handling, including retries. Your backend speaks to that interface, so a provider changing its own API does not change yours.
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Provider-side changes are handled in the connector
When a provider deprecates a parameter, moves an endpoint, or changes a response format, the connector updates it. Most of the time, your integration keeps working unchanged. When a provider introduces something that has to come from you, such as a new required field, it reaches you as a documented change with notice instead of a failed transaction.
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Maintenance runs continuously
Corefy publishes what changed each month. The new integrations are the visible half; the other number is the work your team would otherwise be doing.
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Add a provider without adding maintenance
Enable the connector and link your MID credentials through the platform. New connectors go live daily, and the ones you already use keep working.
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Works over your existing gateway
If you process through a proprietary gateway or another orchestrator, Payment Bridge connects it to Corefy as an extension layer, with no migration and no change to your current processing.
What you get
Provider release cycles no longer land in your sprint.
Provider changes land elsewhere
A deprecated field or a moved endpoint is fixed inside the connector.
One contract to maintain
Your backend integrates once and speaks the same way to every provider behind it.
Fewer unplanned interrupts
The work that used to arrive at three in the morning arrives as a release note.
Coverage that grows without new work
Each provider you add joins a set that is already being maintained.
The card networks reset the rules twice a year, and every provider implements it separately
Visa and Mastercard both release updates twice a year, in April and October. Visa's own merchant guidance points merchants at each release document to work out how much development they need in order to stay compliant. Those mandates reach you through every provider you are connected to, each in its own API and on its own timeline. Provider release cycles sit on top of that: Stripe's published versioning policy ships a new API version monthly and two releases a year that carry breaking changes. Providers with no published policy give you less warning, not less change.