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title: 'Overview: Payment orchestration'
subtitle: >-
PaymentKit’s orchestration layer connects multiple payment processors and
intelligently routes payments to maximize success rates, reduce costs, and
expand global coverage.
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# What is payment orchestration?

PaymentKit’s payment orchestration layer allows you to:

* Connect multiple payment processors and gateways.
* Automatically route payments based on rules like success rate, cost, currency, or geography.
* Improve authorization rates and global coverage.
* Simplify integration by letting PaymentKit handle processor failover and routing.

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  You can start with a single processor and add more as your needs grow.
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# Connect your payment processors

To start processing payments, you must connect **at least one processor**. PaymentKit supports multiple processors:

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  <Card title="Stripe" icon="fa-brands fa-stripe-s" darkModeColor="#C6C7F8" lightModeColor="#121594" href="/guides/payment-orchestration/processors/stripe">
    Accept payments through Stripe using PaymentKit
  </Card>

  <Card title="Airwallex" icon="duotone microchip" darkModeColor="#C6C7F8" lightModeColor="#121594" href="/guides/payment-orchestration/processors/airwallex">
    Accept payments through Airwallex using PaymentKit
  </Card>

  <Card title="Authorize.net" icon="duotone microchip" darkModeColor="#C6C7F8" lightModeColor="#121594" href="/guides/payment-orchestration/processors/authorize-net">
    Accept payments through Authorize.net using PaymentKit
  </Card>

  <Card title="PayPal" icon="fa-brands fa-paypal" darkModeColor="#C6C7F8" lightModeColor="#121594" href="/guides/payment-orchestration/processors/paypal">
    Accept payments through PayPal using PaymentKit
  </Card>
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# Configure payment routing

After connecting processors, you can create **processor routes** to control which processors handle payments and in what order:

<Card title="Explore payment routes" icon="duotone route" darkModeColor="#C6C7F8" lightModeColor="#121594" href="/guides/payment-orchestration/routing-payments">
  PaymentKit enables configurable payment routing across processors to optimize acceptance rates, cost, and regional performance.
</Card>