Making Website Integration More Robust
Take the example of our customer-fronting website that requires integration to a 3rd party payment gateway. We have a situation where there are 2 distinct websites, one dependent on the other to conclude the business process/ flow as well as some form of SLA from the 3rd party. In essence, we do not trust the 3rd party payment gateway with our livelihood. How then do we integrate the websites together? Here are some of the items we desire: the 3rd party payment gateway appears integrated to our website security and regulatory requirements are met customers enjoy the entire website interaction integration failure are monitored or at a minimum, logged customers know what to do in the event of a failure (recovery or mitigation) The current situation is that: it is relatively easy to integrate with the 3rd party payment gateway, but the payment gateway further integrates with other banks’ websites for 3DS Assuming such a web flow: our customer-fronting website (order informatio
