# 2023-07-11: CE - Payment Gateway Service

### Overview

The new Payment Gateway Service provides a flexible architecture and the efficiency and security for your payment processes. With the integration of [Spreedly](https://www.spreedly.com/), we are empowering you with a robust, and scalable payment orchestration solution that simplifies the complexities of managing multiple payment gateways, processors, and methods.

On top of it, you can define an additional payment gateway in parallel to Spreedly in case your customer has a contract with a different provider. If you are running multiple sites on Emporix, you can offer different payment methods and currencies on each of them.

Together with Spreedly, we ensure your customers' payment data is secure. The solution is fully compliant with Level 1 PCI, and GDPR requirements in different geographies, worldwide.

### New features

| Features                                | Benefits                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| --------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Configuration of payment strategies** | Simplify the integration & speed up the implementation of Spreedly payment gateways by just configuring a new payment strategy within Spreedly for a new payment method - no coding.                                                     |
| **Payment configuration per site**      | Merchant employees can just configure the relevant payment method on site level by using the .                                                                                                                                           |
| **Transaction log**                     | Have a transparent overview within the about the transaction history for every order.                                                                                                                                                    |
| **Refund creation**                     | The merchant customer service can trigger refunds from the without logging in to several payment provider backoffices.                                                                                                                   |
| **Capture**                             | Provides the flexibility to adapt the capture trigger based on your business, for example: digital products you might want to capture instantly. In other cases, you might need to reserve an amount and capture the final amount later. |

### Fixes and improvements

None as these are new services.

### Known problems

No known problems at time of release.

### Documentation and links

* [User Business Scenarios](/ce/customer-use-cases/scenarios-introduction/payment-process.md)
* [System Management - Payments Configuration Guides](/ce/extensibility-and-integrations/payments.md)
* [Payment Gateway API](/api-references/api-guides/checkout/payment-gateway.md)


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