A payment gateway connects your checkout to a single acquirer and passes the transaction through. A payment orchestration layer sits above multiple gateways and acquirers, deciding in real time which route each transaction should take. Hellgate Hub is Hellgate's orchestration fabric: it applies routing rules, handles failover, integrates fraud scoring from Specter, and gives you a single API interface across all your payment providers. The key difference is intelligence and portability: a gateway is a pipe, an orchestration platform is the logic that controls which pipe to use, and when to switch.

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