• Denys Kyrychenko, Co-Founder & CEO at Corefy


• 03.11.2025 10:30 am
#PaymentIntegration #PaymentBridge

Any business that works with multiple payment providers eventually faces the same challenge — keeping up with the growing demand for new methods, markets, and local acquirers. Expanding this coverage is essential for global growth, but achieving it isn’t simple.

Building new payment integrations in-house can take months of development and ongoing maintenance. Meanwhile, switching to a new payment orchestration platform just to access missing connectors disrupts operations and slows growth. Delays translate into lower approval rates, lost revenue, or churn, especially in competitive markets.

That’s why many companies are now choosing a more flexible approach — the payment bridge.

A payment bridge acts as a lightweight extension layer that connects your existing payment infrastructure to pre-built PSP integrations, instantly expanding your coverage without replatforming or duplicating orchestration logic.

In this article, we’ll compare three common approaches to adding new payment integrations and explore five cases where a payment bridge is your best strategic choice.

3 ways to add new payment integrations

When you need to expand payment coverage, there are three main paths to consider — each with its own costs, risks, and impact on your roadmap.

1. Build integrations in-house

Owning your payment integrations gives you full control over architecture, logic, and certification. For companies with large tech teams and long-term transaction volumes, this approach can make sense.

But in most cases, it quickly becomes a bottleneck. Each new PSP requires weeks of development, QA, and continuous maintenance. Multiply that by dozens of providers, and your payment roadmap can stall for months. What starts as control often turns into a high total cost of ownership and a slower market response.

2. Switch to a new payment orchestration platform

Replatforming to a modern orchestration solution can open access to a wide network of pre-built connectors and advanced tools: routing, cascading, reconciliation, and analytics. It’s a valid move if your current stack has reached its limits.

However, migration is rarely frictionless. It takes time, introduces operational risk, and often requires reconfiguring existing merchant logic, reporting, and settlement flows. For businesses that already have a functioning processing setup, this option can be expensive and disruptive — a big move when you only need more integrations.

3. Use a payment bridge

A payment bridge connects your existing payment system to pre-built integrations without touching your core infrastructure. It allows you to add new PSPs, acquirers, or local methods instantly, while keeping your current routing, cascading, and reporting logic intact. You stay in full control of your commercial relationships and technical configuration — the bridge simply extends your reach.

This model is ideal when your orchestration layer already works well, but you need to scale coverage faster, test new markets, or match competitors’ offerings without a major rebuild.

5 cases when a payment bridge works better

There’s no universal formula for scaling payment infrastructure. Yet in these scenarios, a payment bridge consistently proves to be the faster, leaner, and more cost-efficient path compared to building integrations from scratch or switching platforms:

1. When speed to market defines your growth

In payments, every week of delay can mean lost transactions and missed opportunities. Whether you’re expanding to new regions or responding to client demand, the ability to connect new providers instantly is a decisive advantage.

A payment bridge gives you immediate access to required acquirers and payment methods, helping you meet market demand without waiting for months of development.

2. When testing new markets or payment methods

Testing new regions, flows, or alternative methods shouldn’t require full-scale development.

With a bridge, you can validate real transaction data and performance before investing in permanent integrations. It’s a low-risk, low-cost way to experiment, learn, and scale based on results, not assumptions.

3. When you need redundancy and performance optimization

Even with a wide provider network, maintaining uptime and performance across all connections is complex.

A payment bridge lets you instantly extend your routing options by connecting to additional PSPs or acquirers, improving redundancy, balancing transaction loads, and optimising approval rates across markets without reconfiguring your existing orchestration.

4. When you want to control costs and resources

Each internal integration consumes engineering time, compliance oversight, and a long-term maintenance budget.

Using a bridge means you outsource integration complexity while keeping full control over processing logic. Your team can focus on what drives value — optimization, analytics, and client experience — instead of endless connector upkeep.

5. When you already have a stable setup and don’t want to replatform

If your orchestration platform or custom gateway already performs well, rebuilding it just to add missing providers makes little sense.

A payment bridge lets you expand coverage without touching your existing stack: preserving data flows, routing logic, and operational stability while adding exactly the integrations you need.

The smarter way to scale your payment reach

Expanding your payment coverage doesn’t have to be a slow or risky process. Whether you’re serving merchants, optimizing your own checkout, or managing global payment flows, a payment bridge lets you do more with what you already have. It removes the trade-off between speed and stability, giving you instant access to new integrations while keeping your existing stack intact.

With Corefy’s Payment bridge, you can unlock 550+ PSP and acquirer connections, activate them in days instead of months, and stay focused on what drives your business forward — growth, not maintenance. Explore available connectors or request a short walkthrough to see how quickly a bridge can support your next expansion.

Denys Kyrychenko is the founder of Corefy, a global payment orchestration platform, and PayAtlas, a payment community platform connecting providers and merchants. With nearly two decades of experience in software development, system architecture, and management, he brings deep expertise in online payments and fintech innovation. Over the course of his career, Denys has helped launch numerous PSPs and e-wallets and co-founded Interkassa, a payment aggregator. A graduate of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and Kyiv-Mohyla Business School, he is dedicated to building scalable, efficient payment infrastructure that enables businesses worldwide to optimise conversions, reduce costs, and expand seamlessly into new markets.