Use case summary
Corefy offers SDKs that wrap its REST API, covering server-side languages and native mobile clients, plus CMS plugins for platforms like Magento and WooCommerce. Your team adds payments using tools built for its stack, so much of the low-level API work is already done. Pick the SDK that matches your server technology and the clients you support, and integrate faster.
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What stands between the API and your first payment
A well-designed REST API gives your team everything it needs to integrate payments. It also leaves a fair amount of work to do: writing the client code, wiring up requests and responses, handling tokens and callbacks, and building the payment form on the front end, all before the first payment goes through. For many teams, that is exactly the work they would rather not write from scratch, especially when it is the same well-understood pattern every integration repeats.
The cost is time to launch. A store on a common e-commerce platform does not want to hand-build a payment integration when the platform supports plugins. A mobile team does not want to assemble card collection and tokenization by hand when a native SDK exists. Writing the low-level layer yourself is more code to test, more surface to secure, and more time before you are live, on a part of the stack where the pattern is already solved.
How ready-made SDKs and plugins speed up integration
Corefy provides libraries that wrap the API, so your team works at a higher level, choosing the tool that fits its stack.
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Wrap the API with server SDKs
Corefy's SDKs wrap its RESTful API for server-side use, so your back end talks to the platform through a library in your language instead of hand-built HTTP calls. The SDK you pick depends on your server technology and the clients you want to support.
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Collect payments in mobile apps with native SDKs
Native mobile SDKs handle the client side of accepting payments in your app, so card collection and the payment flow use tools built for mobile instead of a hand-rolled interface.
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Build custom payment pages on the client API
For teams that want their own checkout, the Commerce Public API lets you build the payment page, while the SDK handles the secure collection of payment data.
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Add payments to your store with CMS plugins
For e-commerce platforms like Magento and WooCommerce, ready-made modules add Corefy payments to your store, so a shop goes live without a custom-built integration.
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Keep the option of the hosted page
Where a team wants the least development, the hosted payment page needs no front-end build at all, and the SDKs are there for the cases that call for more control. You choose how much to build and how much to hand over.
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Rely on the same platform underneath
Whichever SDK or plugin you use, it sits on the same API and the same 600+ provider integrations, so the shortcut in integration does not cost you any of the provider breadth or the unified data behind it.
What you get
Adding payments becomes a task scaled to how much you want to build.
Faster time to live
Ready-made libraries and plugins remove much of the low-level work, so a working integration comes together faster.
Less code to own and secure
Using an SDK for card collection, tokenization, and callbacks means less hand-written payment code for your team to test and maintain.
The right tool for your stack
Server SDKs, mobile SDKs, and CMS plugins mean the integration matches how your product is built, whether that is a back-end service, a native app, or a store.
A shortcut with no ceiling
Starting from a plugin or SDK still leaves the full API available underneath, so you can go deeper whenever a requirement calls for it.
A hosted flow at launch, a custom interface later
A software publisher that needed to start accepting payments quickly used Corefy's ready-made checkout to go live without building a payment interface up front, with Corefy handling the hosted page, card data collection, tokenization, and callbacks. Once the core stack was stable, the team built its own custom payment-method selection interface on top. The ready-made path carried them from launch to scale, and the deeper build came when they were ready for it.