Intelligent Payments Group success with Espeo Software
Originally published on the Espeo Software blog.
Intelligent Payments Group is one of Europe’s largest payment gateways. The platform operates under the EVO Payments umbrella, which acquired IPG in 2016. Since 2017, Espeo Software has worked alongside IPG to launch a flexible recurring payments module that went live in October 2019. Additionally, Espeo maintains platform security, ensuring it complies with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, or PCI DSS. IPG provides payment solutions for e-commerce firms across the globe. In our cooperation, we’ve honed our fintech skills and have gained invaluable experience in the payments field. We’d like to share with you our client’s success story and shed some light on one of our most exciting projects to date. Find out more about our IPG project below.
Rollout of a flexible payment gateway
IPG came to us with ambitious plans to expand its payments network and needed a robust nearshore team to help them achieve it quickly. The main goal of the project was to implement recurring payments so that IPG could offer a flexible payment gateway to its clients. Merchants of all sizes can use IPG and scale up or down easily. We’re also currently maintaining platform security and continue to keep it PCI DSS compliant. Since the firm undergoes routine security audits, we help to keep it up to date with all the latest regulations. Part of this was developing ways to store credit card details securely.
Getting fully acquainted with these regulations was challenging at first, but we achieved this and continue to keep it secure. Following IPG’s acquisition by EVO Payments, IPG’s reach extended to markets outside of Europe and the company also offers its services to e-commerce merchants in the US and Mexico.
One of the key features of the portal is its customer management function which offers merchants detailed reports on user behavior. This, in turn, allows merchants to optimize their sales process and automate online payments. Smaller merchants can use a dedicated management module available as a website, while bigger merchants prefer integrating with the payment API to schedule payments and receive results. Additionally, merchants can set up a flexible plan and IPG handles the payments automatically. These insights and flexibility enable merchants to customize services to their specific target consumers.
Recurring payments module
A team of eight espeo developers and testers worked for over a year to develop and deliver a recurring payments module. One of the main technological challenges we faced was the sheer complexity of the system. Adjusting the app to different markets and jurisdictions was another. In Mexico, you have one system and in the US, it’s totally different. We worked closely with business analysts, testers, and their in-house developers on the project. Communication had to be open and consistent. Gaining a full grasp of the project allowed us to find the best solutions and offer ways to best solve the business challenges we faced. Our team coordinated with teams in Gibraltar, Hungary, the US, China, and Poland.
We ran programming jobs in Java and PHP to develop new payment channels and support integration with platforms such as Blik, PayPal, Alior Bank, Eservice, and others.
Part of how we work — and what sets us apart — is that we don’t just follow orders, but also offer technical consulting. As mentioned above, one of our main tasks was to design a flexible solution for both small and big merchants IPG’s initial proposal was to use Secure File Transfer Protocol, or SFTP for large clients. However, when we started digging into details, we noticed that it was not optimal and would complicate the end-user experience. So we proposed they use their own application programming interface via HTTPS. This ended up being a far more straightforward solution that ended up saving IPG countless hours of development time and creates a better UX overall. Our team’s ability to look critically at a project and anticipate the outcome passes savings on to our clients, providing considerable value.
In the coming months, we plan to introduce a pay-per-use model to extend even more flexibility and cost savings to IPG’s clients. Our expertise in the fintech sector — and especially in integrating recurring payments features with payments providers.
If you’re looking for a team of experts to guide you in your fintech project, or need to extend your own team, drop us a line!
