Welcome to the Hellgate API Reference
Hellgate® is Starfish's unified payment orchestration platform, built to empower merchants with flexibility, control, and innovation in their payment infrastructure.
We offer two distinct flavors:
🚀 Hellgate Commerce
A managed, opinionated orchestration-as-a-service for fast-moving teams. Designed for those who want best-practice orchestration patterns out of the box — with minimal setup and maximum scale. Hellgate Commerce handles routing, retries, and provider abstraction with no infrastructure overhead.
✅ Turnkey orchestration
✅ No hassle compliance
✅ Rule-based routing
✅ Optimized integrations
✅ End-to-end observability
🧩 Hellgate CPA
The Composable Payment Architecture (CPA) is a managed infrastructure offering that brings the power of orchestration to hybrid and in-house orchestration. CPA enables enterprises to tailor their own payment stack using modular services, deployed as managed infrastructure.
With CPA, you're not just integrating — you're architecting.
🔹 Composable services (data vault, routing, and many more)
🔹 Flat-rate pricing based on scale
🔹 Add-on services with buy-rate-based pricing
🔹 Built for long-term ownership and extensibility
📦 Products & APIs
Hellgate Commerce
A fully managed orchestration platform for fast-moving teams. Integrate once and access optimized routing, retries, and PSP abstraction out of the box.
Guardian (CPA)
A PCI-compliant card data vault for storing and tokenizing sensitive payment data. The foundation for secure, composable payment architecture.
Hub (CPA)
Our orchestration engine for smart routing, decisioning, and PSP abstraction — coming soon to the API reference.
More to come
More CPA services will be added over time as we open access to more services.
👋 Need Help?
For support, integration assistance, or to talk with a payments architect: reach out to us.