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First Data + Sage Pay Integration

Clarity Connect™ integrates First Data with Sage Pay , automating business processes and data sharing. This robust integration connects your critical business systems to automate order processing, inventory management, and customer data synchronization.

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The Challenge

Connecting with Clarity Connect™

Clarity Connect™ links First Data and Sage Pay through automation and data sharing. Integrating these platforms benefits businesses by streamlining processes and connecting front-end and back-end systems.

Considerations when connecting these applications include security, performance, and physical access. We support both SaaS (Cloud) and On-Premises connection types.

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The Solution

Seamless Integration

Our middleware platform ensures robust and reliable data transfer between First Data and Sage Pay .

Implementation Timeline

Go live with First Data + Sage Pay in as little as 2–4 weeks.

A proven, repeatable implementation approach that minimizes risk while getting your team to value quickly.

1

Access Enabled

Secure connections established to both First Data and Sage Pay , with credentials and environments confirmed.

2

Configuration & Mapping

Field mappings, business rules, and workflows configured using visual tools and pre-built templates.

3

Go Live

Launch production-ready integration with monitoring, alerting, and support in place—typically within 2–4 weeks.

Time to Value

2–4 weeks

Typical implementation window from access granted to production go-live for most First Data + Sage Pay deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

Guided by Clarity experts with your team involved at key milestones.

Comprehensive Solution Details

Robust Integration Architecture for Payment Orchestration

The integration leverages a modern, event-driven iPaaS as the central hub, providing a scalable, secure, and resilient architecture for orchestrating payments between First Data and Sage Pay and your enterprise applications.

Data Flow Steps

Event-Driven Architecture: Utilizing webhooks for real-time updates from both gateways.

Canonical Data Model: Defining a unified schema for `Transaction`, `Customer`, `Order` within the iPaaS.

Intelligent Routing: Implementing dynamic decision-making for gateway selection.

Circuit Breaker Pattern: To prevent cascading failures during gateway outages.

Idempotent API Calls: Ensuring that repeated requests to gateways do not result in duplicate transactions.

Observability-Driven Development: Embedding logging, tracing, and metrics throughout the integration flows.

Data Touchpoints

iPaaS Core: Workflow engine, data mapper, transformation logic.
Connectors: Pre-built, optimized connectors for First Data and Sage Pay APIs, ERPs, CRMs.
Event Bus/Queue: For asynchronous processing and handling high transaction volumes.
Rules Engine: AI-augmented logic for dynamic payment routing, fraud scoring, and reconciliation.
Secrets Manager: Secure storage for API keys and credentials.
Monitoring & Alerting: Centralized dashboard for operational visibility.
Data Lake/Warehouse: For consolidated payment analytics and historical data.

"A central iPaaS platform connects to eCommerce/POS systems (Initiation), First Data (Processing), Sage Pay (Processing), ERP (Financials), and CRM (Customer Data). The iPaaS contains an 'Intelligent Router' and 'Canonical Data Model' layer. Webhooks flow from gateways to iPaaS, and API calls from iPaaS to gateways/ERP/CRM."

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for First Data + Sage Pay .

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$595 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
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Innovative & Robust

How Middleware Integration Works

Benefits of Integrating First Data

Integrating First Data fosters greater efficiency and data accuracy. Automate your critical business processes to deliver consistently outstanding results.

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Data Mapping

Data Entity Mapping

Explore how data flows between systems with intelligent field mapping and transformation logic.

Transaction

The core financial event, encompassing authorizations, captures, refunds, and voids, unified from both payment gateways.

First Data Fields

transactionId orderId amount currency transactionType status timestamp paymentMethodToken merchantId processorResponse

Sage Pay Fields

transactionId vendorTxCode amount currency status transactionType customerEmail paymentMethod cardType createdDate

Mapping Notes

Map `First Data:transactionId` to `Sage Pay:originalTransactionId` for cross-gateway references if a transaction is processed by one and later referenced by the other (e.g., for a chargeback). Establish a canonical `transactionId` within the iPaaS. `orderId` from upstream eCommerce should map to `First Data:orderId` and `Sage Pay:vendorTxCode` for consistent traceability.

Next Steps

See First Data + Sage Pay integration in action.

Explore a guided demo, start a sandbox integration, or speak directly with our solution architects about your specific use cases.

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Real-World Applications

Integration Use Cases

Explore how the integration behaves in real business scenarios, with clearly defined steps, outcomes, and execution patterns.

Dynamic Payment Routing & Optimization

Intelligently route transactions between First Data and Sage Pay based on predefined rules such as transaction amount, card type, issuing bank, geographic region, or processing fees to optimize costs and success rates.

Integration Steps:

  1. 0 Customer initiates payment on eCommerce/POS.
  2. 1 iPaaS intercepts payment request.
  3. 2 AI-driven rules engine evaluates transaction criteria.
  4. 3 Transaction is routed to either First Data or Sage Pay for processing.
  5. 4 Payment status is returned to iPaaS and updated in ERP/CRM.
  6. 5 Performance metrics are logged for future routing optimization.

Business Outcome

Reduced processing fees, improved payment approval rates, enhanced resilience through multi-gateway strategy.

Frequency

Real-time

Technical Documentation

API Endpoints & Data Logic

Technical details for developers and architects.

Method Endpoint Purpose
POST /v1/payments/token Securely tokenize card data.
POST /v1/payments/authorization Authorize payment.
POST /v1/payments/capture Capture authorized funds.
POST /v1/payments/refund Process refunds.
POST /v1/payments/void Cancel authorized transactions.
GET /v1/settlements/daily Retrieve daily settlement reports.
GET /v1/payments/status/{transactionId} Query transaction status.
GET /v1/chargebacks Retrieve chargeback notifications.

⚡ Transformation Logic

  • Status Normalization: Map diverse status codes (e.g., 'Approved', 'CAPTURED', 'Success') from both gateways to a canonical set (e.g., 'Processed', 'Refunded', 'Declined') for consistent reporting.
  • Currency Conversion: If operating with multiple currencies, apply real-time exchange rates for consolidated reporting.
  • Address Standardization: Cleanse and standardize customer billing/shipping addresses for AVS checks and CRM synchronization.
  • Fee Categorization: Map various fee types reported by each gateway to a unified chart of accounts for GL posting.
  • PCI DSS Compliance: Ensure all sensitive card data is tokenized by the respective gateway, and only tokens are handled by the iPaaS and downstream systems.

🛡️ Error Handling

  • Gateway API outage (triggering failover).
  • Invalid payment method details (auto-decline).
  • Fraudulent transaction detected (auto-block/review).
  • Network latency causing timeouts (triggering retries).
  • Data format mismatch during mapping (triggering alerts).
Support & Information

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about integration implementation, security, and best practices.

General Integration FAQs

▸ Why would I integrate two payment gateways like First Data and Sage Pay?
Integrating First Data and Sage Pay allows businesses to leverage the strengths of both, enabling intelligent payment routing for cost optimization or higher approval rates, providing failover redundancy, consolidating financial reporting, and centralizing fraud management across all payment channels. It creates a unified, resilient payment ecosystem.

Financial Operations FAQs

▸ How does this integration handle reconciliation across both First Data and Sage Pay?
Our iPaaS solution automates daily reconciliation by retrieving settlement reports from both First Data and Sage Pay, normalizing the data, and matching it against your ERP's records. It then generates consolidated journal entries and flags any discrepancies for review, significantly reducing manual effort and accelerating your financial close.
▸ Can I manage refunds and chargebacks for transactions processed by either gateway from a single system?
Yes, absolutely. The iPaaS centralizes refund and chargeback management. Refund requests initiated in your ERP or CRM are automatically routed to the correct original processing gateway (First Data or Sage Pay). Similarly, chargeback notifications from either gateway are unified, triggering automated case creation in your dispute management system.

Payment Processing FAQs

▸ Can I dynamically route payments between First Data and Sage Pay based on specific criteria?
Absolutely. The integration includes an AI-driven rules engine that allows you to define criteria for dynamic payment routing. You can route transactions based on factors like card type, transaction amount, geographic region, issuing bank, or even real-time processing fees to optimize costs and maximize approval rates.

Security & Compliance FAQs

▸ What are the key security considerations when integrating First Data and Sage Pay?
Security is paramount. Our integration adheres to strict PCI DSS compliance by utilizing tokenization services from both First Data and Sage Pay, ensuring raw card data never touches your systems. We also implement end-to-end TLS 1.2+ encryption, secure API key management, IP whitelisting, and robust audit trails.

Performance FAQs

▸ How does iPaaS improve performance for high transaction volumes with two gateways?
Our iPaaS employs several performance optimization techniques, including asynchronous processing, message queuing, intelligent batching for non-real-time operations, and configurable retry mechanisms with exponential backoff. This ensures high throughput, low latency, and resilience, even during peak transaction loads across both First Data and Sage Pay.

AI & Automation FAQs

▸ How does AI assist in managing payments across both First Data and Sage Pay?
AI enhances this integration by suggesting optimal data mappings, inferring business rules for dynamic routing, performing real-time anomaly detection for fraud prevention, and automating exception handling during reconciliation. It transforms manual tasks into intelligent, proactive operations.

Reliability FAQs

▸ What happens if one of the payment gateways experiences an outage?
The integration is designed with fault tolerance in mind. Our intelligent routing logic can automatically detect if one gateway is unavailable or performing poorly and seamlessly switch to the other operational gateway for payment processing. This provides critical failover capabilities, ensuring business continuity and uninterrupted service.
Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for First Data + Sage Pay .

Start with a single integration pair and scale as your business grows—without surprise fees or transaction penalties.

Connect™ Plan

Clarity Connect

$599 /mo

Billed annually • Includes one production integration pair

  • Unlimited transactions and API calls within fair-use limits.
  • Visual workflow designer and reusable mapping templates.
  • Monitoring, alerting, and access to Clarity’s support team.
View full pricing & options
Next Steps

See First Data + Sage Pay integration in action.

Explore a guided demo, start a sandbox integration, or speak directly with our solution architects about your specific use cases.

Start Free Trial Request Live Demo