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Payment authorization flow

How an authorization request travels from the client through the gateway and payment service to the acquirer and card network, and how the result returns.

Payment authorization flow
Payment authorization flow
Category
Payments
Published
May 18, 2026
Tags
paymentssequenceintegration

Justin Coulston

Diagram-native architecture writing — systems, trade-offs, and the diagrams that explain them.

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