Payments, Banking & Digital Assets from A to Z
Explore definitions for PSP, MID, MDR, acquiring, Open Banking, stablecoins, Lightning, orchestration and more.
SorterPay Encyclopedia
Clear explanations of the terminology behind modern payments, banking, stablecoins, Web3 and iGaming.
A practical framework for cashier, payment methods, redundancy, settlement and provider selection.
Understand the difference between three core layers of modern payment infrastructure.
Why alternative and local payment methods matter when entering new markets.
How USDT and USDC can function as settlement rails across international payment stacks.
A practical guide to fiat/crypto conversion and cross-rail settlement flows.
Account-to-account payments, APIs and the role of modern European banking rails.
Understand Lightning Network, Layer 2, payment channels and practical payment relevance.
Payment Architecture Tools
Practical resources for moving from a commercial need to verifiable architecture, provider and operating decisions.
Payment Architecture Brief
Organize objectives, markets, rails, providers, funds flow and open decisions.
Open →Payment Architecture Checklist
Review coverage, redundancy, routing, settlement, risk, reconciliation and operations.
Open →Payment Stack Action Plan
Turn gaps into priorities, owners, validations and next actions.
Open →Payment Stack Scorecard
Score stack strengths and gaps to prioritize work.
Open →How to Choose a Payment Rail
Compare rails by market, acceptance, risk, settlement, resilience and integration.
Open →Payment Provider RFP Questionnaire
Compare providers with consistent questions on fit, risk, integration, settlement and operations.
Open →Provider Evaluation Checklist
Evaluate coverage, underwriting, integration, performance, reporting, support and resilience.
Open →Payment Reconciliation Checklist
Control IDs, statuses, fees, refunds, payouts, settlement, FX and exceptions.
Open →Funds Flow
Map how money enters, moves and settles.
Open →Payment Incident & Failover Runbook
Connect redundancy with detection, failover, recovery and reconciliation.
Open →Payment Redundancy
Identify single points of failure and alternate routes.
Open →Settlement & Treasury Matrix
Evaluate asset, frequency, liquidity, FX, custody, reconciliation and contingency.
Open →Settlement
Define currency or asset, frequency, dependencies and contingency.
Open →Payment Orchestration
Understand routing, multiple providers and operational control.
Open →From diagnosis to operation
A practical sequence for moving from scattered problems to executable architecture decisions.
Diagnose
Identify stack gaps and weak points.
Open →Prioritize
Turn findings into decisions and owners.
Open →Design
Define architecture, rails, funds flow and settlement.
Open →Validate
Evaluate providers, underwriting and dependencies.
Open →Operate
Prepare reconciliation, incidents and failover.
Open →Align
Bring critical decisions into a structured workshop.
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Gateway, PSP or Orchestrator: who does what?
Guides for designing a better payment stack
Orchestration, stablecoin settlement and iGaming payments explained through architecture and operations.
Payments Glossary / Encyclopedia
Payments, banking, Bitcoin, stablecoins, iGaming and Web3 definitions in a dedicated section.