The secret is out. FlyCode partnered with Stripe as one of the first design partners globally for their new Payment Orchestration product. It’s a new revenue opportunity and a growth lever for merchants

As someone who’s been in FinTech for 10+ years, I can say this is a pivotal moment in payments.

A New Chapter in Payments Optimization

At Stripe Sessions last week, Stripe announced the private‑preview launch of Stripe Orchestration and gave FlyCode a shout‑out on stage as one of its first global design partners. For us, this is more than a product announcement—it is confirmation that the industry is ready to move from static, rule‑based routing to dynamic, AI‑driven optimization. 

👉 The details: Stripe previewed Stripe Orchestration, which allows you to easily manage multiple payment processors with full control and visibility, from right within Stripe.

It means that other payment providers like Adyen, Braintree, Worldpay, Checkout and the rest will be connected natively to process payments.
Until now, Payment Orchestration was hard to integrate, optimize and scale

Why Payment Orchestration Matters

“Orchestration” simply means automating and coordinating multiple components to achieve a better outcome. In payments, that translates into four essential capabilities: 

1. Connections to multiple processors or acquirers within each market, giving merchants real redundancy and flexibility.

2. A single integration layer that exposes geographies, payment methods, and value‑added services through one API and dashboard.

3. Transaction‑level optimization—tokenization, decline‑management, smart retries, and other tools that lift authorization rates and reduce costs.

4. Dynamic smart routing that can shift traffic among processors in real time based on cost, performance, or risk signals.

Historically these capabilities lived in pure‑play orchestration platforms such as Spreedly, Gr4vy, IXOPay, and others. PSPs (payment service providers) like Stripe, Adyen, and Checkout.com offered their own global acquiring stacks but routed all transactions inside their network. With Stripe now exposing multi‑acquirer routing natively, the line between PSP and orchestrator is starting to blur.

To optimize payments across providers, you had to:

Integrate with a 3rd-party orchestrator (and deal with limitations)
❌ Manage multiple PSP integrations and their billing ops (nightmare)
❌ Lose access to some native PSP capabilities
❌ Build your own rules and benchmarking tools internally
❌ Manually compare auth and recovery rates (ouch)

With the new Stripe Orchestration:

No integration with multiple PSPs (hard to believe, right?)
✅ One consolidated view, right in Stripe
✅ Native benchmarking: auth rate, recovery, and more
✅ Flexible routing, better redundancy, and lower processing costs (but you’ll pay a subscription fee on this new product)
✅ Move from a simple rule based setups to specialized models that optimize payments with FlyCode.

It's a mindset shift from cost-cutting and local payment processing to AI-driven payment optimization with FlyCode.

Inside Stripe Orchestration (Private Preview)

Stripe’s new orchestration layer lets merchants route payments to any Stripe‑supported third‑party processor from the familiar PaymentIntents API and dashboard. Key launch features include: 

• Multi‑processor routing without writing a single new integration.

• Performance analytics that benchmark auth and recovery rates across processors.

• Sandbox testing so teams can A/B test rules safely.

• Unified refunds—issue refunds from Stripe even when another PSP processed the original sale.

Current limitations

• Cards only (no APMs yet) and not yet available for Link, Capital, or Connect. 

• Early‑stage feature set—powerful for basic routing and benchmarking, but not yet at parity with best‑of‑breed orchestrators.

• Stripe‑centric—merchants must still use Stripe as a primary processor to gain access.

👉 The future?

People miss out on how payments can be exciting :)
Like in other areas, Infrastructure is getting commoditized while intelligence and optimization is becoming the differentiator. I’m excited that FlyCode is the front line of this.

With Stripe and multiple payment processors as Infrastructure, FlyCode is sitting on top as the “brain” and decisioning engine to power the future of payment optimization 🫶

We’ve built agents to help you test, optimize, and dynamically benchmark performance

At FlyCode, we are re-imagining payment infrastructure optimization for the AI era, combining cutting-edge machine learning with specialized revenue intelligence, building the AI layer for payments.

On a personal note: working closely with the Stripe Payment Orchestration team over the past few months has been inspiring. As a product person, I saw first-hand how they innovate: constant iterations, deep customer collaboration, humility and insane talent. It’s like watching a mini startup inside Stripe. Thank you for the partnership, and good luck on the road ahead 💜

It's a net-new revenue layer: by lifting authorization rates and recover failed payments, orchestration plus FlyCode’s AI turns payments into fresh top-line growth.