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INTEGRATED PAYMENT SOLUTIONS
A payment gateway is the technology that securely connects your website to the card networks. When a customer enters their card details on your checkout page, the gateway encrypts the data, sends it to the bank for approval, and returns a response in seconds.
Without a gateway, your website cannot accept card payments. With the right one, set up correctly, your customers pay with confidence and your money arrives the next business day.
There are four ways to connect a payment gateway to a website. The right one depends on your platform, your technical setup, and how much control you want over the checkout experience.
| Integration Type | How It Works | Best For | Technical Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hosted Checkout | Customer is redirected to the gateway's own payment page to complete the transaction. | Small businesses wanting the simplest and most secure option with minimal setup. | Low |
| Embedded Form | Payment form sits on your page but processes through the gateway behind the scenes. | Businesses that want a seamless checkout without the customer leaving their site. | Medium |
| API Integration | Your site connects directly to the gateway via code for a fully custom checkout flow. | Custom-built sites or businesses needing a specific checkout experience. | High |
| Plugin or Extension | A pre-built plugin connects your platform to the gateway with minimal configuration. | WooCommerce, Shopify, and other platform-based sites. | Low to Medium |
Peakwa handles all four types. Not sure which you need? A free integration review will tell you.
Transactions protected through encryption, tokenization, and fraud screening. PCI-compliant on every integration type. Your customers pay with confidence.
Every transaction, completed or failed, triggers CRM-integrated emails, receipts, and support notifications. Orders sync automatically. No manual entry.
Automated recurring billing and membership management with predictable revenue cycles. Configured for your billing schedule, tested before go-live.
Businesses with a website that currently cannot accept card payments online.
Store owners whose current gateway is slow, expensive, or not compatible with their platform.
Businesses expanding from in-store to online sales and needing to add a payment gateway to their site.
How we compare to self-setup plugins or software-only support.
We review your current site, your platform, your gateway, and CRM to design a unified payment solution that matches your business model.
We test every checkout scenario, including successful payments, declines, redirects, and refunds, to ensure zero friction on launch day.
We configure both the front-end checkout and back-end webhooks, syncing CRM contacts, transaction logs, and customer notifications.
We document your custom integration settings and stay available to troubleshoot, update, or expand your payment setups as you grow.
It is the process of connecting a payment gateway to your website, ecommerce platform, or CRM so card payments flow correctly through your systems. A gateway that is not integrated properly will either not work or miss steps like syncing orders to your CRM.
Setting up a new gateway means getting a merchant account and gateway credentials for the first time. Integration is the technical work of connecting those credentials to your site, platform, and other systems. Both are different services. If you need a new gateway, see our Online Payment Gateways page. If you have one and need it connected, this page is for you.
A standard plugin-based integration on WooCommerce or Shopify usually takes two to three business days. A custom API integration on a bespoke site can take five to ten days depending on complexity.
An API integration connects your website directly to the gateway using code. This gives you full control over the checkout experience and is the right choice for custom-built sites or businesses that need a checkout flow a plugin cannot provide.
Yes. We wire payment gateways to CRM platforms so customer records, order history, and payment status sync automatically. If you are running a specific CRM, ask us whether we have worked with it.
Having a payment gateway and having it working are two different things. Most small business owners discover this the hard way when they sign up for a gateway, try to connect it to their website, and hit a wall. The checkout does not appear. The payment goes through but the order does not show up in their system. The gateway works but none of the transaction data reaches their CRM. These are integration problems, not gateway problems, and they are more common than most providers will admit.
Payment gateway integration is the technical work of connecting your gateway to the rest of your systems so that payments flow correctly from checkout through to your bank account and your records. Done right, it is invisible. Done wrong, it costs you sales, creates support headaches, and wastes hours of manual reconciliation every month.
Peakwa delivers a modern, fast, and secure payment system designed for small businesses to compete confidently in a digital world.
