What payment service providers (PSPs) does Cleeng support?

At Cleeng, we understand that a seamless and reliable payment experience is crucial for subscriber retention. That's why our platform is designed to be flexible, supporting a wide array of Payment Service Providers (PSPs) to ensure you can accept payments in line with your operational needs. Our goal is to help you optimize your payment acceptance rates by connecting you with the most suitable global and local payment gateways.

This article provides an overview of the payment gateways available through Cleeng.

Built-in PSP Connections

Cleeng  provides immediate connections to several leading Payment Service providers (PSPs). They are available out-of-the-box to clients using Cleeng Merchant.

These built-in integrations allow for rapid deployment and leverage our long-standing relationships and payment optimization expertise. 

• Adyen: As our default payment gateway, Adyen has been a trusted partner for over 10 years. It offers robust performance with a strong presence in North America and Europe. More information here.
• Stripe:  A key payment gateway for clients with strong performance in particular in Europe and North America.
• dLocal: Experienced and one of the main PSPs in emerging countries like Brazil allowing to connect to local payment methods such as PIX.
• PayPal: A globally recognized payment option. It is significant for some markets like the USA where PayPal still represents 46% of payments processed by all industries combined (including their own PSP Braintree). Our decade-long partnership ensures a smooth and reliable integration.

Additional Available PSP Connections

Besides our built-in PSP connections mentioned above, Cleeng proposes a list of pre-integrated PSPs which you can request to connect to (only those relevant for subscription payments are listed below) through our orchestration layer.

Please note that enabling some of these PSPs may require a market assessment and minimum transaction volumes.

We recommend choosing PSPs that have strong experience in subscription-based services, and a solid presence in the regions you are targeting and where you expect to have significant volume.

Custom Payment Gateway Integrations 

If your preferred payment provider is not on the lists above, our orchestration layer can connect you to your PSP(s), or we can build your own dedicated PSP connection via a third party partner. This is ideal for clients who have an existing relationship with a specific PSP or require a tailored payment solution.

You can integrate any PSP of your choice with Cleeng:

• Via our orchestration layer: This is a perfect solution if you wish to integrate with several PSPs.
• Via a dedicated integration: for specific, tailored connections.

Both options lead to a Cleeng-compatible connector that ensures full support for subscription lifecycles, token storage, retries, routing, fraud prevention, and transaction status tracking.

Cleeng occupies a central role in orchestrating payments and highlighting customer and order data in its dashboard, while you retain ownership of contracts, compliance, tax liability and PSP configurations.

However, there is a key limitation of using a PSP connection via our orchestration layer when you are not using Cleeng Merchant: some payment methods will only be available via certain PSPs. For example, if you want  to propose local payment methods such as GCash in the Philippines, our orchestration layer would only be able to provide it via a local PSP. All major payment methods are however covered by each PSP supported via our orchestration layer.

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