Insights on Crypto Payments, Infrastructure, and Operations

Glossary terms starting with P

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Payment Event Retry

Payment Event Retry is a repeated attempt to deliver or process a payment event after a previous attempt did not complete successfully.…

Payment Event Schema

Payment Event Schema is the formal contract that defines the structure, field types, required attributes, constraints, and semantic meaning of a payment…

Payment Event Sequence

Payment Event Sequence is an ordinal or version value used to represent the relative progression of payment events within a defined scope.…

Payment Event Stream

Payment Event Stream is a continuously appendable sequence of payment events made available for storage, transport, and consumer processing. A stream may…

Payment Event Subscription

Payment Event Subscription is a defined arrangement through which a consumer receives selected payment events from a topic, stream, broker, or event…

Payment Event Timestamp

Payment Event Timestamp is a recorded time associated with a payment event, such as occurrence time, publication time, ingestion time, or processing…

Payment Event Topic

Payment Event Topic is a named logical channel used to publish and subscribe to a category of payment events. A topic often…

Payment Event Type

Payment Event Type is the semantic classification that states what kind of payment event occurred. Examples may distinguish payment authorized, payment failed,…

Payment Event Validation

Payment Event Validation is the checking of a payment event against required envelope, schema, semantic, security, and business constraints before it is…

Payment Event Version

Payment Event Version is an explicit identifier for the contract or semantic version of a payment event. It allows producers and consumers…

Payment Evidence

Payment evidence is the collection of records that supports what happened to a payment and why. It can include requests, signatures, provider…

Payment Exception

A payment exception is a payment condition that falls outside the normal automated path and requires a defined alternative rule or review.…

Payment Exception Rate

Payment Exception Rate is the percentage of payment records or attempts that leave the normal straight-through path and enter an exception, review,…

Payment Exchange Rate

A payment exchange rate converts the priced amount into the asset or currency the payer must send for a specific transaction. For…

Payment Execution

Payment Execution is the controlled performance of a payment instruction through validation, policy evaluation, routing, external interaction, state recording, and outcome handling.…

Payment Execution Context

Payment Execution Context is the set of immutable or versioned information needed to execute and later explain a specific payment operation. It…

Payment Execution Engine

Payment Execution Engine is the component that coordinates the steps required to perform payment operations according to policy and current execution context.…

Payment Execution Plane

Payment Execution Plane is the logical runtime plane where payment commands are transformed into controlled processing actions and recorded outcomes. It sits…

Payment Export

A payment export is a structured file or data feed containing payment records for accounting, analytics, compliance, support, migration, or reconciliation. It…

Payment Extension

A payment extension adds time to a payment due date, invoice expiry, checkout window, quote, authorization, or other payment deadline. The extension…

Payment Facilitator (PayFac)

Payment Facilitator (PayFac) is a payment intermediary that enables sponsored merchants or submerchants to accept payments under a relationship it maintains with…

Payment Failover

Payment failover redirects payment processing or supporting services to a healthy alternate component, provider, region, node, or route after a failure. It…

Payment Failure

Payment failure is the unsuccessful outcome of a payment at validation, authorization, submission, execution, confirmation, clearing, or settlement. It should identify the…

Payment Failure Rate

Payment Failure Rate is the percentage of eligible payment attempts or operations that end in a defined failure state during a stated…