Our payment gateway software development team designs and builds the payment infrastructure behind banks, fintechs, and enterprise platforms. From custom gateway architecture to AI fraud detection, you get a system that clears audits, scales with volume, and stays fully yours.
Off-the-shelf processors take 2 to 3 percent per transaction and box you into their roadmap. A custom gateway with direct acquirer integrations pays for itself once volume picks up.
Your own gateway, your business logic, your margins back.
02Outgrowing your stack
Legacy payment rails are slowing you down.
Aging infrastructure means high failure rates, slow settlement, and no clean way to add UPI, wallets, or cards. Every new method turns into a six-month project.
Modern rails added in parallel, no platform freeze, no rewrite.
03Bank or PSP
You need a partner who has shipped switches.
You sit between regulator, bank, and merchant, and you need engineers who have built real switches, ledgers, and acquirer integrations. Not account managers learning on your timeline.
A production switch and merchant console under your brand.
How it works, end to end.
How a payment gateway actually works
The journey of a single payment, from the moment your customer taps Pay to when the money lands in your bank account. Five steps, mostly happening in under a second.
How a payment gateway actually works
01. Customer pays: Your customer taps Pay with their card, UPI ID, wallet, or net banking at checkout.
02. Your checkout sends it: Your website or app hands the payment off to the gateway over a secure, encrypted channel.
03. Gateway protects it: Encryption, tokenization, fraud scoring, and smart routing happen in under a second.
04. Bank approves the charge: The card network and the customer's bank approve or decline the payment in real time.
05. Money in your account: Funds settle to your business bank account in T+1 or T+2 working days.
What happens inside the gateway
Encryption: Card data is encrypted end to end. Raw numbers never get stored on your servers.
Tokenization: Card numbers swapped for safe tokens, which keeps your PCI scope tiny.
Fraud detection: Every transaction is scored in real time before it goes through.
Smart routing: Each charge takes the route most likely to be approved by the bank.
3D Secure 2: Risk-based extra check that blocks fraud without killing conversion.
Architecture Review
See what a gateway you actually own looks like, mapped to your roadmap.
End-to-end payment gateway software development, from custom architecture to ongoing optimization. Built modular, so you can pick what fits your roadmap and add the rest as you grow.
Custom Gateway and API Development
A gateway built from the ground up around your business logic, compliance needs, and scale targets. Comes with REST APIs, SDKs, webhooks, and sandbox environments so partners can integrate without friction.
PCI DSS Level 1/REST API/SDKs and Webhooks
A gateway built from the ground up around your business logic, compliance needs, and scale targets. Comes with REST APIs, SDKs, webhooks, and sandbox environments so partners can integrate without friction. For the full architecture, see our guide to building a custom payment gateway.
White-Label Payment Gateway
A turnkey, fully brandable gateway for fintechs, banks, and SaaS platforms. Launch under your own name in weeks, with merchant onboarding, settlement management, and an admin console included.
Brandable/Merchant Portal/Turnkey
A turnkey, fully brandable gateway for fintechs, banks, and SaaS platforms. Launch under your own name in weeks, with merchant onboarding, settlement management, and an admin console included. If you are looking to create payment gateway infrastructure in India, our step-by-step guide covers the RBI and NPCI specifics.
Payment Orchestration and Smart Routing
A multi-processor routing engine that picks the cheapest, most likely to succeed path in milliseconds. Smart retry on soft declines and automatic failover keep approval rates high when a processor has a bad day.
Multi-PSP/Smart Retry/Failover
A multi-processor routing engine that picks the cheapest, most likely to succeed path in milliseconds. Smart retry on soft declines and automatic failover keep approval rates high when a processor has a bad day.
Mobile and Cross-Border Payments
Native iOS and Android SDKs, wallet integration, QR and NFC payments, plus multi-currency processing with real-time forex. Local methods supported across India, the Middle East, Europe, and North America.
Mobile SDKs/Multi-Currency/UPI, SEPA, ACH
Native iOS and Android SDKs, wallet integration, QR and NFC payments, plus multi-currency processing with real-time forex. Local methods supported across India, the Middle East, Europe, and North America.
AI Fraud Detection and Risk Management
Machine learning risk scoring, real-time monitoring, behavioral analytics, and chargeback prevention. Our models cut fraud sharply while keeping false positives low, so good customers are not turned away.
ML Scoring/Real-Time/Chargeback Prevention
Machine learning risk scoring, real-time monitoring, behavioral analytics, and chargeback prevention. Our models cut fraud sharply while keeping false positives low, so good customers are not turned away. As a FinTech Software Development Company, we tune these models against real payment fraud patterns.
Recurring Billing, Analytics, and Migration
A subscription engine with dunning, proration, and revenue recognition, paired with live dashboards for monitoring and reconciliation. Plus zero-downtime migration off legacy systems with a phased cutover.
Subscriptions/Analytics/Migration
A subscription engine with dunning, proration, and revenue recognition, paired with live dashboards for monitoring and reconciliation. Plus zero-downtime migration off legacy systems with a phased cutover. Planning a budget? See our detailed breakdown of payment gateway development cost.
Build with us
Not all of this needs to ship on day one.Tell us where you are, we will tell you where to start.
A modern, production-tested stack chosen for security, throughput, and long-term ownership. Pick what fits your roadmap, swap what does not.
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JavaScript
Angular
Bootstrap
Next.js
Nest.js
Node.js
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Laravel
Electron.js
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Angular
Bootstrap
Next.js
Nest.js
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TypeScript
Tailwind CSS
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Android
Flutter
Swift
Elasticsearch
Firebase
MongoDB
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Tailwind CSS
SCSS
GraphQL
Android
Flutter
Swift
Elasticsearch
Firebase
MongoDB
Why teams choose Zethic for payments
Fully Owned by You
Your repository, your cloud, your IP. We build for ownership from the first commit. No white-label lock-in, no proprietary runtime, and no license fees after handover.
Compliance from Day One
We architect to PCI DSS Level 1 from the start, not as a last-minute review. Cardholder data is tokenized, scope is kept small, and every action on the money path leaves a tamper-evident trail.
Senior Payments Engineers
You work with engineers who have shipped real switches, ledgers, and acquirer integrations. Not account managers, not juniors learning the domain on your project.
Enterprise Scale, Day One
We design for the volume you are heading toward, not the volume you have today. No re-platforming when you grow from ten thousand to ten million transactions a day.
Security and compliance, built in.
Everything an auditor will ask for, already covered
Every gateway we build ships with bank-grade security and the compliance posture a regulated payments business needs.
We map your requirements, compliance needs, integration scope, and payment flows. You leave with a reference architecture, a technology choice, and a clear build plan.
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Design and development
Checkout, merchant dashboards, and the admin console designed for conversion. The gateway engine, API layer, and integrations built in agile sprints with weekly demos.
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Security audit and testing
PCI DSS audit support, penetration testing, load testing at high throughput, sandbox validation, and end-to-end transaction testing before anything goes live.
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Launch and optimization
A blue-green deployment, real-time monitoring, and go-live support. After launch we tune approval rates, add features, and back it with an SLA.
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Engagement models, built to fit.
Pick the model that fits your roadmap
Senior payments engineers embedded in your team, shipping every sprint. Choose the contract shape that matches how you build.
Defined deliverables
Fixed-Scope Project
Defined deliverables, timeline, and budget for gateway projects with clear milestones. Ideal for MVP builds and platform launches.
It is the process of building a secure platform that handles electronic payments between customers and merchants. That covers the checkout interface, the transaction processing engine, fraud detection, payment method integrations like cards, UPI, and wallets, and merchant dashboards, all with PCI DSS compliance at the core.
It depends on scope. An MVP is far lighter than a full enterprise platform. The main cost drivers are the number of payment methods you integrate, your compliance requirements, how sophisticated fraud detection needs to be, and multi-currency support. We share an honest band after a 30-minute scoping call.
A focused MVP with the switch, ledger, reconciliation, a couple of acquirer integrations, a merchant console, and basic risk rules can go live in roughly 14 to 18 weeks. A full enterprise gateway with many instruments and advanced risk usually takes 6 to 12 months. You see working modules every sprint.
The gateway is the customer-facing technology that captures, encrypts, and transmits payment data to the processor. The processor is the backend that talks to card networks and banks to authorize and settle the transaction. The gateway is the front door, the processor is the engine room. Many modern builds combine both.
Yes. PCI DSS compliance is required for any system that stores, processes, or transmits cardholder data. Level 1 is the highest tier and applies at large transaction volumes. Even below that, PCI DSS protects against breaches, reduces your fraud liability, and is required by Visa and Mastercard for merchant onboarding.
Yes, that is one of our core offerings. You get a fully functional, brandable gateway with your logo, colors, and domain, ready to offer to merchants. It includes a merchant onboarding portal, settlement management, customizable checkout, API documentation, and an admin dashboard. If you would rather license than build, our white-label payment gateway platform is ready to brand and configure.
You do, fully. Code lives in your repository, infrastructure runs in your cloud, and the IP belongs to you. We do not white-label, we do not hold runtime dependencies hostage, and we do not charge license fees after handover. That is the whole point of working with an engineering partner instead of a platform vendor.
Yes. We offer 24/7 monitoring and incident response, SLA-backed uptime, performance and approval rate optimization, security patching, and feature work. Support plans are tailored to your transaction volume and how critical the system is.
Let's build your payment gateway
Tell us your stage, your roadmap, and where you are stuck. A senior payments engineer will reply within one working day. No SDR, no slideware.
Tell us where you are
Building from scratch, modernizing, or running a PSP, share your context. We sign an NDA before any specifics.
Speak to an engineer
A senior payments engineer joins the call within two working days to map your roadmap and constraints.
Get a real plan
A reference architecture, a scope band, and an engagement model tailored to your stage. No slideware.
Let's build your payment gateway
Tell us your stage, your roadmap, and where you are stuck. A senior payments engineer will reply within one working day. No SDR, no slideware.