collana pay is a platform for the centralized management of all online payments. E-commerce companies can set up and manage various payment methods from different providers (Payment Service Providers) through a single integration, thereby simplifying payment management. This saves time and resources, as companies do not need to manage and maintain multiple integrations or interfaces with different payment providers. Our collana pay Admin Portal is the central place for configuring payment methods, handling errors, and searching transactions in detail. If you use multiple PSPs, you can search transactions across all of them without needing to log into different PSP backend systems.
Reduction of development time through standardization
Once collana pay has been implemented in the shop and ERP system, merchants benefit from the PSPs and payment methods already integrated into the collana pay platform. The standardized communication with the collana pay API, regardless of the PSPs used, ensures simplification when implementing new PSPs and payment methods. Error handling benefits in particular, as collana pay consolidates the different error codes and messages from various Payment Service Providers and outputs them uniformly to consuming systems such as webshops.
How does collana pay work?
collana pay is designed as a multi-payment processing solution and can be used via communication with the collana pay API.
When implementing the integration of collana pay into your systems, two basic variants are available:
Sales channels are connected directly to collana pay (the ideal approach)
- Fully automated and PSP-independent payment processes from start (authentication, authorization) to returns (refund) without media disruption
- Data from all process steps is available for analysis
- Quick switching between payment providers and payment methods is possible.
- Shop or POS systems are connected directly (intensive development and testing phase required)
- Further explanations can be found in this article
Sales channels are not connected to collana pay
- Existing and already integrated PSPs and payment methods in shop and POS systems do not need to be changed. This saves time and initial development effort
- Once collana pay is implemented in the ERP, you benefit from automated downstream payment processes, such as captures at goods dispatch or refunds for returns
- Data and reports do not display all information, as only data from the capture stage onwards is known in collana pay (e.g. captures, refunds)
- Flexibility when switching PSPs and payment methods is less supported than in variant 1. New data structures or interfaces may need to be implemented
- Fully automated payment processes are not available “out of the box” as in variant 1
- Further explanations can be found in this article