Case Studies

Real projects. Real results. See how Paywiro has helped companies unify, route, and scale their payment infrastructure.

Case Study

Unifying 7 Payment Providers for a European Fashion Retailer

−67% Checkout failures 7 Providers unified 6 weeks Delivery

Challenge

A mid-sized European fashion retailer had grown organically and accumulated three separate payment integrations: one for card payments, one for BNPL, and one for local bank transfer. Each had its own SDK, webhook format, error codes, and deployment pipeline.

Developer onboarding took 2–3 weeks just to understand the payment layer. Any provider issue required expertise in that specific integration. Checkout failures from misconfigured failover were costing roughly €15K/month in abandoned transactions.

Solution

Paywiro deployed a unified gateway layer normalizing all seven providers (Stripe, Adyen, Klarna, PayPal, iDEAL, SEPA, and a regional acquirer) behind a single REST API contract. Smart routing rules directed traffic by card type, currency, and cart value. Webhook output was normalized to a single format across all providers.

Results

  • Checkout failure rate dropped 67% in the first 30 days post-launch
  • Developer onboarding reduced from 3 weeks to 3 days
  • Integration maintenance burden dropped by 80%
  • New provider added in 4 days instead of 3–4 weeks
  • Delivered in 6 weeks from kickoff
Go Kubernetes PostgreSQL Redis Stripe Adyen Klarna
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E-commerce payment unification: multiple providers converging into a single gateway
Case Study

Building a Custom Subscription Billing Gateway for a B2B SaaS Platform

Fewer failed charges 12 currencies Supported 8 weeks From design to production

Challenge

A B2B SaaS company was using Stripe’s built-in subscription tooling but had outgrown its constraints. They needed complex proration logic, custom dunning workflows, multi-currency invoicing with local tax rules, and the ability to switch payment providers per region without breaking existing subscriptions.

Solution

Paywiro designed and built a custom subscription management layer sitting above both Stripe and Adyen. The system handled plan management, billing cycles, retry logic (4-attempt dunning with configurable backoff), multi-currency conversion, and PDF invoice generation with VAT compliance. An admin UI allowed the finance team to manage subscriptions without engineering involvement.

Results

  • Failed subscription charges reduced by 4× through smart retry logic
  • Finance team fully self-sufficient for subscription management
  • Added support for 12 currencies without code changes
  • Stripe-to-Adyen migration per region completed in 2 weeks
Node.js Stripe Adyen PostgreSQL Redis Kafka
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SaaS subscription billing engine with smart retry and dunning workflows
Case Study

Smart Payment Routing & Fraud Reduction for a Pan-European OTA

−45% Fraud chargebacks +28% Conversion rate 9 Regions covered

Challenge

A pan-European Online Travel Agency processed payments across 9 countries with a flat routing strategy — all traffic to one global acquirer. Conversion rates varied wildly by region, fraud rates were above industry average, and local payment methods (iDEAL, BLIK, Trustly) were entirely absent despite strong regional demand.

Solution

Paywiro built a regional routing engine with fraud scoring middleware. Rules directed transactions to the highest-converting acquirer per country and card type. Fraud scoring integrated with a third-party ML model to flag high-risk transactions before authorization. Local payment methods were added for NL, PL, and Nordics, and 3DS2 challenge logic was tuned to minimize friction on low-risk transactions.

Results

  • Fraud-related chargebacks fell 45% within 60 days
  • Conversion improved 28% through optimized regional routing
  • 9 countries now served with local payment methods
  • Average checkout latency reduced from 2.1s to 0.9s
Python Go Stripe Adyen Worldpay iDEAL Trustly Przelewy24
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Smart payment routing across European regions with fraud detection
Case Study

Full Payment Infrastructure Build for a Pre-Launch FinTech Startup

16 weeks Full build from zero 3 Providers integrated at launch 50K+ Transactions/month after 6 months

Challenge

A payments startup with a founding team of product and business profiles had a working prototype but no production payment infrastructure. With a seed round investor deadline 16 weeks out, they needed a complete, PCI-compliant payment gateway with 3 provider integrations, a developer API, admin dashboard, and deployment pipeline — built and handed over as a fully owned codebase.

Solution

Paywiro deployed a dedicated 4-person team (2 backend engineers, 1 DevOps engineer, 1 solution architect) to build the entire payment infrastructure. The delivery included: core gateway API, Stripe + PayPal + Adyen integrations, webhook engine, admin panel, PCI DSS scoping documentation, Kubernetes deployment on AWS, CI/CD pipeline, and full API documentation.

Results

  • Delivered on-time, 16 weeks from kickoff
  • Client closed seed round successfully
  • Now processing 50K+ transactions/month
  • Engineering team onboarded to full codebase in 1 week
  • 0 critical incidents in first 6 months of operation
Go Node.js Kubernetes AWS Stripe PayPal Adyen PostgreSQL Terraform
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Full payment infrastructure build from scratch for a fintech startup

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