Research & evaluations
Payment orchestration: methodology
Published calculation rules, collection context and open evidence requirements.
Scope and provenance
Seven platforms assessed across routing, vault, integrations, developer experience, pricing and enterprise fit. No LLM response experiment is included in this release.
Transcribed from the existing HTML report; not a new collection or verification of provider outputs.
The previous report describes public documentation, product pages, directories and reviews as its source classes. Individual source-to-score mappings are not attached to the release. No independent reviewer is recorded.
Published scoring protocol
| Criterion | Weight |
|---|---|
| routing | 25% |
| vault | 15% |
| integrations | 20% |
| developer | 15% |
| pricing | 10% |
| enterprise | 15% |
Recalculated total = sum of each displayed criterion value multiplied by its weight / 100. Values are rounded to one decimal using half-up rounding. Original totals are retained for comparison.
A documented rubric explaining how each individual value was assigned is still required. Do not interpret decimal precision as a measured error bound.
Interpretation limits
Country and language specify the research context; they do not establish market-wide buyer preference. Cited URLs are observed references, not proof of causal influence. Before-and-after changes require compatible collection settings and cannot alone establish attribution.