# 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.

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](mailto:hellgate.support@starfish.team).