Payment gateway architecture template

Components in this architecture diagram

• Merchant checkout
• Hosted fields: card tokenised
• PCI card vault
• Payments API
• Idempotency key seen?
• Return previous result
• Fraud & risk engine
• 3-D Secure needed?
• Issuer challenge
• Smart routing
• Acquirer A
• Acquirer B
• Double-entry ledger
• Settlement & payouts
• Webhooks to merchant
• Reconciliation

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Mermaid source

The whole template is the text below. Paste it into FlowDiagram, keep it in Git next to the code it describes, or hand it to an AI assistant to extend.

flowchart LR
  M((Merchant checkout)) --> JS[Hosted fields: card tokenised]
  JS --> VAULT[(PCI card vault)]
  M --> API[Payments API]
  API --> IDEM{Idempotency key seen?}
  IDEM -->|Yes| PREV[Return previous result]
  IDEM -->|No| RISK[Fraud & risk engine]
  RISK --> TDS{3-D Secure needed?}
  TDS -->|Yes| ACS[Issuer challenge]
  ACS --> ROUTE
  TDS -->|No| ROUTE[Smart routing]
  ROUTE --> AQ1[Acquirer A]
  ROUTE --> AQ2[Acquirer B]
  AQ1 --> LED[(Double-entry ledger)]
  AQ2 --> LED
  LED --> SETT[Settlement & payouts]
  API --> WH[Webhooks to merchant]
  LED --> RECON[Reconciliation]

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