Route, translate and trace every ISO 8583 message
Connect terminals, processors and schemes with rule-based routing, protocol translation and full transaction visibility — built on the Studio engine.
CHANNEL
MIDDLEWARE
PROVIDER A
PROVIDER BMANY DESTINATIONS.SWITCH · ROUTE · TRANSLATE
ISO 8583 · JSON · XML · REST — one integration surface for every provider
A bridge, an orchestrator and an integration hub
Bring payment channels and providers together through a shared layer for translation, routing and integration.
Payment Bridge01
Connect systems that speak different payment languages, with protocol translation between channels and providers.
ISO 8583 dialect translation JSON, XML and REST interfaces Consistent message mapping
Transaction Orchestrator02
Apply routing policies across providers and manage the transaction lifecycle, including exception handling.
Rules-driven provider selection Retries, reversals and timeouts Store-and-forward handling
Integration Hub03
Use one integration surface to connect to acquiring hosts, issuers, payment switches and gateways.
Multiple endpoint connections Provider-specific transports Independent channel integration
Trace a 0200 from request
to normalized response
to normalized response
From the incoming request to the final response, keep routing decisions and message transformations visible.
Request received
01 / 05MTI 0200 · Financial request DE 003 000000 DE 004 000000001250 DE 011 000001 DE 049 356
A synthetic purchase request enters the middleware. Field values shown here are illustrative.
Routing policy applied
02 / 05RULE currency = 356 AMOUNT 12.50 INR ROUTE provider_a FORMAT JSON / REST POLICY configured provider priority
The routing layer evaluates the request against a configured rule and selects an eligible provider.
Message translated
03 / 05{
"type": "purchase",
"amountMinor": 1250,
"currency": "INR",
"reference": "000001"
}Payment fields map to an illustrative provider JSON format. Each integration defines its own contract.
Transaction observed
04 / 05TRACE demo_000001 HOP 01 channel → middleware HOP 02 middleware → provider_a VIEW parsed fields + raw message STATE awaiting provider response
A shared trace links both sides of the exchange so operators can inspect the message at each hop.
Response normalized
05 / 05PROVIDER status = approved MTI 0210 · Financial response DE 011 000001 DE 039 00 CHANNEL response returned
The provider result maps back to the originating channel format and retains the request reference.
Illustrative message flow using synthetic data. No payment requests are sent.
Provider quirks stay in the switch layer
Keep provider complexity in the switch layer and give your team a clear view of how transactions behave.
01
Swap providers, keep channels
Add or swap providers behind a consistent interface, keeping channel code independent.
02
Complete transparency
Follow messages at field level, with formatted and raw views for troubleshooting.
03
Intelligent routing
Choose providers by cost, latency or explicit business rules, according to your policy.
04
Risk management
Apply velocity checks, transaction limits and blocklists at the switch layer.
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Performance analytics
Review throughput, approval rates and latency percentiles across individual routes.
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Operational efficiency
Manage store-and-forward, automatic reversals and connection recovery within one layer.
Middleware questions
Routing, formats, deployment and what the switch layer owns.
Three building blocks: a bridge for protocol translation, an orchestrator for routing policy and transaction lifecycle, and an integration hub that holds the provider connections. Channels talk to one interface; provider specifics stay behind it.
As rules over the request: BIN, amount, currency, scheme or provider availability, with an explicit priority order. The selected route, the rule that matched and the resulting format are all visible in the transaction trace.
Binary ISO 8583 and its dialects, JSON, XML and REST, carried over the transports each provider requires — mapped on the way in and on the way out.
The orchestrator owns retries, automatic reversals, store-and-forward and connection recovery, so a provider outage becomes a routing decision rather than a channel-side failure.
Field-level views of every message with formatted and raw data side by side, correlated across hops, plus throughput, approval-rate and latency percentiles per route.
Yes. The middleware is built on the Studio engine, so the same message parsing, cryptographic tooling and traces you use for testing carry into the production switch layer.
Talk to us about middleware
Tell us what you are routing between, and the throughput you need to hold.
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Let's design the switch layer around your transaction volume, provider connections and routing requirements.
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