Smart transaction routing
Smart transaction routing sends each transaction to the connector best suited to process it, based on rules you define — by currency, customer country, amount, card properties, risk score, and more. Routing also covers failover (retrying failed transactions on backup connectors) and load balancing (splitting traffic across connectors).
Routing rules are configured on a meta-connector: a virtual connector that dispatches every transaction it receives to one of the merchant's regular connectors. Your integration processes payments against the meta-connector like against any other connector — the routing decision happens transparently on the platform.
There are two ways to author routing rules:
- Admin interface — the visual rule editor, explained in the user manual: Meta-Connector routing and Multi-Method Connector.
- Provisioning API — author the same rules programmatically as JSON documents, for example from your own dashboard.
For more details on connector routing via the Provisioning API, check out the in-depth article on connector routing via the Provisioning API in the reference.
Both paths read and write the same configuration, so they can be combined freely.