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Unlock Seamless Payments & Financial Harmony: Vantiv & SAP Integration

Connect Vantiv (Worldpay) payment processing with your SAP ERP for real-time financial reconciliation, automated workflows, and enhanced business agility. Empower your enterprise with intelligent, low-code integration.

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The Challenge

The Disconnect: Manual Payments & Fragmented ERP Finances

In today's fast-paced digital economy, relying on manual processes to bridge the gap between your Vantiv payment gateway and SAP ERP leads to critical inefficiencies. This disconnect creates a cascade of operational challenges that hinder financial accuracy, slow down critical business cycles, and expose your organization to unnecessary risks.

  • Delayed Reconciliation: Manual matching of Vantiv settlement data with SAP General Ledger entries consumes significant time and resources, delaying financial close.
  • Error-Prone Data Entry: Re-keying payment details, refunds, and chargebacks into SAP introduces human error, leading to financial inaccuracies and requiring costly corrections.
  • Poor Cash Flow Visibility: Lack of real-time synchronization means outdated financial data in SAP, making accurate cash flow forecasting and management challenging.
  • Slow Refund & Chargeback Handling: Manual processes for refunds irritate customers, while reactive chargeback management increases dispute losses and operational overhead.
  • PCI DSS Compliance Burden: Handling sensitive payment data outside of secure, tokenized flows between Vantiv and SAP increases the scope and complexity of PCI DSS compliance.
  • Fragmented Customer Payment Data: Inconsistent customer payment profiles across systems complicate recurring billing and secure card-on-file services.
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The Solution

Intelligent Vantiv & SAP Integration: Your Path to Financial Automation

Our low-code, AI-powered iPaaS solution seamlessly connects Vantiv (Worldpay) with your SAP ERP (S/4HANA or ECC), transforming your payment operations. By automating critical financial workflows, we ensure real-time data synchronization, enhance financial accuracy, and provide unparalleled visibility into your entire payment ecosystem. This isn't just integration; it's intelligent financial orchestration.

  • Pre-built Vantiv & SAP Connectors: Accelerate deployment with robust, optimized connectors for both systems, handling API complexities out-of-the-box.
  • Visual Workflow Builder: Design complex payment and financial workflows with intuitive drag-and-drop interfaces, empowering business users.
  • AI-Powered Data Mapping & Validation: Leverage AI to suggest field mappings, validate data quality, and detect anomalies in real-time between Vantiv and SAP schemas.
  • Real-time Event Processing: Utilize Vantiv webhooks and SAP events for instant synchronization of payment authorizations, captures, refunds, and chargebacks.
  • Comprehensive Error Handling & Reconciliation: Implement robust retry mechanisms, dead-letter queues, and AI-assisted exception handling for payment discrepancies.
Implementation Timeline

Go live with Vantiv + SAP 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 Vantiv and SAP, 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 Vantiv + SAP deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

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

Comprehensive Solution Details

  • Pre-built Vantiv & SAP Connectors: Accelerate deployment with robust, optimized connectors for both systems, handling API complexities out-of-the-box.
  • Visual Workflow Builder: Design complex payment and financial workflows with intuitive drag-and-drop interfaces, empowering business users.
  • AI-Powered Data Mapping & Validation: Leverage AI to suggest field mappings, validate data quality, and detect anomalies in real-time between Vantiv and SAP schemas.
  • Real-time Event Processing: Utilize Vantiv webhooks and SAP events for instant synchronization of payment authorizations, captures, refunds, and chargebacks.
  • Comprehensive Error Handling & Reconciliation: Implement robust retry mechanisms, dead-letter queues, and AI-assisted exception handling for payment discrepancies.
  • Centralized Monitoring & Governance: Gain a unified view of all integration flows, performance metrics, and audit trails for complete operational oversight and compliance.

Vantiv & SAP Integration: Architecture, Data Flow & Technical Details

Our integration solution leverages a modern, event-driven iPaaS as the central orchestration layer, establishing a secure and high-performance conduit for critical payment, order, and financial data between Vantiv (Worldpay) and your SAP ERP. This architecture ensures real-time accuracy, robust security, and scalable operations for your enterprise.

Data Flow Steps

Connect: Establish secure, authenticated connections to Vantiv APIs and SAP OData/BAPI/RFCs using pre-built connectors.

Listen/Trigger: Configure event listeners (Vantiv webhooks, SAP Event Mesh, scheduled polling) to detect changes or new transactions.

Extract: Retrieve relevant data from the source system (e.g., Vantiv Payment Transaction, SAP Sales Order).

Transform & Map: Use the iPaaS's visual designer and AI-assisted mapping to convert data between Vantiv's schema and SAP's complex structures, applying business logic and validation rules.

Orchestrate: Define multi-step workflows to sequence operations, handle conditional logic, and integrate with other systems if needed.

Load: Post the transformed data to the target system via its respective APIs (e.g., create SAP Journal Entry, update Vantiv Refund).

Monitor & Alert: Continuously monitor integration flow health, performance, and data quality, with automated alerts for exceptions and failures.

Reconcile & Audit: Implement automated reconciliation checks and maintain comprehensive audit trails for all data movement and transformations.

Data Touchpoints

Vantiv to SAP: Payment Transaction (Authorization, Capture, Refund, Void), Settlement Batch, Chargeback, Customer Payment Profile (token).
SAP to Vantiv: Refund Initiation, Void Initiation, Customer Payment Profile updates.
Shared Entities: Order, Customer/Business Partner, General Ledger Entry, Invoice.

"Conceptual Flow: eCommerce/POS -> Vantiv (Payment Gateway) <-> iPaaS (Integration Platform) <-> SAP ERP (SD, FI, MM, BP). Data flows bi-directionally for updates and uni-directionally for events like settlement reports to SAP GL. The iPaaS acts as the intelligent hub, orchestrating events, transforming data, and ensuring secure, compliant communication."

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for Vantiv + SAP.

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 Vantiv

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

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Data Mapping

Key Entities & Intelligent Mapping for Vantiv-SAP Integration

Understanding and accurately mapping key entities is fundamental to a successful Vantiv-SAP integration. Our iPaaS provides a visual, AI-assisted mapping canvas that simplifies complex transformations, ensuring data consistency and integrity across both systems.

Payment Transaction (Vantiv) <=> Journal Entry (SAP FI)

The core financial record from Vantiv representing a sale, refund, void, or capture, directly mapped to a General Ledger entry in SAP for accurate financial reporting.

Vantiv Fields

[field, transactionId],[type, string],[description, Unique Vantiv transaction identifier.] [field, amount],[type, decimal],[description, Transaction amount.] [field, currency],[type, string],[description, Currency code (e.g., USD).] [field, status],[type, string],[description, Transaction status (e.g., APPROVED, CAPTURED, REFUNDED).] [field, type],[type, string],[description, Transaction type (e.g., sale, refund, auth).] [field, timestamp],[type, datetime],[description, Date and time of transaction.] [field, orderId],[type, string],[description, Associated order identifier.] [field, customerId],[type, string],[description, Associated customer identifier.]

SAP Fields

[field, journalEntryId],[type, string],[description, Unique SAP Journal Entry ID.] [field, companyCode],[type, string],[description, SAP Company Code.] [field, postingDate],[type, date],[description, Date of posting in SAP.] [field, documentDate],[type, date],[description, Date of source document.] [field, currency],[type, string],[description, Currency of the journal entry.] [field, glAccount],[type, string],[description, General Ledger Account (e.g., Sales Revenue, Bank Account, Fees Expense).] [field, debit],[type, decimal],[description, Debit amount.] [field, credit],[type, decimal],[description, Credit amount.] [field, description],[type, string],[description, Text description for the entry.] [field, referenceId],[type, string],[description, Reference to Vantiv transactionId or OrderId.]

Mapping Notes

Vantiv `transactionId` is typically mapped to SAP `referenceId`. Vantiv `type` (sale, refund, fee) is critical for deriving the correct SAP `glAccount` and `debit`/`credit` postings. Currency conversion may be required if systems operate in different base currencies. AI assists in suggesting the appropriate GL account based on transaction type and historical data.

Next Steps

See Vantiv + SAP 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.

eCommerce Order-to-Cash with Real-time Payment & GL Update

A customer completes a purchase on your eCommerce site. The iPaaS captures the Vantiv payment authorization, updates the SAP Sales Order, then captures the payment through Vantiv, and finally posts the accurate financial transaction to SAP's General Ledger in real-time. This ensures immediate order processing and accurate financial reporting.

Integration Steps:

  1. 0 Customer places order on eCommerce, Vantiv authorizes payment.
  2. 1 iPaaS receives Vantiv authorization webhook.
  3. 2 iPaaS creates/updates Sales Order in SAP SD, setting payment status.
  4. 3 eCommerce system triggers Vantiv payment capture.
  5. 4 iPaaS receives Vantiv capture webhook.
  6. 5 iPaaS posts corresponding Journal Entry to SAP FI, updating GL accounts.
  7. 6 SAP inventory levels updated; order released for fulfillment.

Business Outcome

Accelerated order fulfillment, real-time inventory accuracy, instant revenue recognition, and enhanced customer satisfaction.

Frequency

Real-time, Event-driven

Business Value

Key Integration Benefits

Discover the strategic advantages and business value of seamless integration between your systems.

Automated Financial Reconciliation
Significantly reduce the manual effort and time spent on reconciling Vantiv settlement batches with your SAP General Ledger. Our solution automates the posting of journal entries, speeding up your financial close.
Real-time Payment & Order Synchronization
Ensure instant updates of payment authorizations and captures from Vantiv into SAP Sales Orders and inventory, enabling faster order fulfillment and accurate stock levels.
Enhanced Data Accuracy & PCI DSS Compliance
Eliminate manual data entry errors and maintain the highest security standards with Vantiv's tokenization, ensuring sensitive cardholder data never touches your SAP system and simplifying PCI DSS adherence.
Streamlined Refund & Chargeback Management
Automate the entire lifecycle from refund initiation in SAP to processing via Vantiv, and proactively manage chargebacks with automated case creation and data retrieval for faster resolution.
Improved Fraud Detection & Prevention
Leverage AI to analyze Vantiv transaction data in real-time, identifying suspicious patterns and automatically flagging, blocking, or routing high-risk payments for review within an SAP-integrated workflow.
Unified Customer Payment Profiles
Synchronize securely tokenized customer payment profiles between Vantiv and SAP Business Partner/CRM, enabling seamless recurring billing and card-on-file transactions.
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Automated Financial Reconciliation

80% Reduction in reconciliation time

📋 What You Get

Significantly reduce the manual effort and time spent on reconciling Vantiv settlement batches with your SAP General Ledger. Our solution automates the posting of journal entries, speeding up your financial close.

💼 Business Impact

This benefit directly contributes to 80% improvement in Reduction in reconciliation time, enabling your team to focus on high-value strategic initiatives.

Implementation Timeline

Go live with Vantiv + SAP 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 Vantiv and SAP, 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 Vantiv + SAP deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

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

Technical Documentation

API Endpoints & Data Logic

Technical details for developers and architects.

Method Endpoint Purpose
POST /payments/v1/authorizations Initiate a payment authorization for an order. Critical for real-time order processing.
POST /payments/v1/captures Capture a previously authorized payment. Triggers financial settlement.
POST /payments/v1/refunds Process a refund for a captured payment, typically initiated from SAP.
POST /payments/v1/voids Cancel an authorized but not yet captured payment. Prevents settlement.
GET /payments/v1/transactions/{transactionId} Retrieve detailed information about a specific payment transaction.
GET /settlements/v1/daily-reports Fetch daily settlement reports, crucial for automated financial reconciliation with SAP.
POST /tokens/v1/card Tokenize sensitive card data for secure storage and card-on-file functionality.
POST (Event-driven) Webhooks (Various Events) Real-time notifications for payment status changes, chargebacks, fraud alerts. Essential for event-driven architecture.

⚡ Transformation Logic

  • Data Type & Format Conversion: Converting Vantiv's JSON/XML data types to SAP's expected formats (e.g., currency, date, boolean).
  • Conditional Mapping: Applying business logic to map Vantiv transaction types (e.g., 'sale', 'refund', 'fee') to specific SAP General Ledger accounts.
  • Value Lookups: Translating Vantiv status codes or payment methods into SAP's predefined values using lookup tables or external APIs.
  • Aggregation: Summarizing individual Vantiv transactions into a single, multi-line Journal Entry for daily settlement reconciliation in SAP.
  • Tokenization Handling: Ensuring only Vantiv-generated payment tokens, not sensitive card data, are stored or transmitted to SAP.
  • Currency Conversion: Automatically converting transaction amounts between Vantiv's operating currency and SAP's company code currency, if different.

🛡️ Error Handling

  • Vantiv API Errors: Payment declined, invalid card data, transaction not found.
  • SAP API Errors: Sales Order creation failed (e.g., invalid material, insufficient credit), GL account not found, document posting failed (e.g., unbalanced entry).
  • Data Validation Errors: Mismatched data types, missing mandatory fields, invalid currency codes.
  • Network/Connectivity Issues: Temporary outages between iPaaS and Vantiv/SAP.
  • Business Logic Errors: Incorrect GL account derivation, erroneous currency conversion.
  • Rate Limit Exceeded: Too many requests to Vantiv or SAP APIs within a short period.
Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for Vantiv + SAP.

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.
View full pricing & options
Support & Information

Frequently Asked Questions

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

Financial Reconciliation FAQs

▸ How does Vantiv integrate with my SAP ERP system for financial reconciliation?
Our iPaaS platform connects Vantiv's daily settlement reports (via API or SFTP) with your SAP's General Ledger (FI). The iPaaS maps Vantiv's transaction data (sales, refunds, fees, chargebacks) to specific SAP GL accounts, automating the creation of journal entries and flagging any discrepancies for review, significantly reducing manual effort and accelerating financial close.

Security & Compliance FAQs

▸ What security standards do Vantiv integrations need to meet, specifically PCI DSS, in relation to SAP?
Vantiv integrations must adhere to PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard). This is primarily achieved through tokenization: sensitive card data is never stored on your SAP systems; only a secure token provided by Vantiv is used and stored. Our modern iPaaS ensures secure, encrypted data transmission (TLS 1.2+) and robust access controls, minimizing your compliance scope.

Fraud Prevention FAQs

▸ How can AI enhance fraud detection in Vantiv payment workflows and trigger actions in SAP?
AI can be integrated to analyze Vantiv transaction data in real-time, identifying unusual patterns or anomalies indicative of fraud. It can generate fraud scores, automatically block high-risk transactions via Vantiv, and simultaneously trigger a fraud alert or case creation within SAP (e.g., for follow-up by a risk management team), significantly improving your fraud prevention capabilities and reducing losses.

Workflow Automation FAQs

▸ Can I automate refund processes between SAP and Vantiv using low-code tools?
Absolutely. Our low-code iPaaS platform allows business users to design workflows that detect refund requests or credit memos initiated in your SAP ERP. These workflows then trigger Vantiv's Refund API, process the refund, and update all relevant systems (SAP Sales Order, GL) without writing complex code. This streamlines the entire refund lifecycle and improves customer satisfaction.

Data Consistency FAQs

▸ How do I ensure data consistency between Vantiv payment statuses and SAP Sales Orders/Invoices?
Our iPaaS uses mapping engines to harmonize data schemas and event-driven architecture to ensure consistency. When Vantiv processes a payment (authorization, capture, refund), its webhooks notify the iPaaS in real-time. The iPaaS then updates the corresponding SAP Sales Order or Invoice with the accurate payment status, ensuring that order fulfillment and financial records are always synchronized.

Technical Considerations FAQs

▸ What are common technical constraints when integrating Vantiv's APIs with SAP?
Common constraints include API rate limits from both Vantiv and SAP, specific data formatting requirements, strict security protocols (OAuth 2.0 for Vantiv, diverse methods for SAP), and the need for idempotent transaction processing. Our iPaaS helps manage these by handling retries, data transformation, authentication, and ensuring compliance with API best practices and SAP Cloud Connector for on-premise systems.

iPaaS Benefits FAQs

▸ What are the benefits of using a unified iPaaS for all Vantiv and SAP integrations?
A unified iPaaS provides a single platform for managing all Vantiv and SAP integrations, offering centralized monitoring, governance, reusable components, and low-code development. This leads to faster integration development, reduced maintenance costs, improved data consistency, enhanced security, and a holistic view of your entire payment and ERP ecosystem, accelerating your digital transformation.
Implementation Timeline

Go live with Vantiv + SAP 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 Vantiv and SAP, 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 Vantiv + SAP deployments.

Project Phases

Discovery
Configure & Map
Validate
Launch

Engagement Model

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

Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing for Vantiv + SAP.

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.
View full pricing & options
Next Steps

See Vantiv + SAP 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