Spreedly is an open payments platform, founded in 2008, that allows businesses to connect to multiple PSPs and gateways through a single API. Headquartered in the US, it’s commonly used by platforms and fintechs that want to decouple from a single provider and build a more modular, PSP-agnostic payment infrastructure.
If you’ve clicked on this article, you’re probably looking for an alternative payment orchestration platform, whether that’s to support new regions, unify more of your payment stack, or gain deeper control over your payment flows.
To help you find the right fit for your business, this guide breaks down five orchestration platforms with distinct strengths, capabilities, and approaches.
Looking for a solution that offers payment orchestration capabilities and much more? Book a call to learn more about Primer.
Five alternatives to Spreedly
*All information is from each company’s website and is accurate at the time of writing.
1. Primer
If you’re currently using Spreedly, you’re likely already familiar with orchestration basics: connecting multiple PSPs, enabling failover routing, and managing tokens through a single API.
Primer builds on those same foundations: but we’re much more than just another payment orchestration platform. Our unified infrastructure connects your entire payment stack—from PSPs and wallets to fraud tools, 3DS, and reconciliation— all through a single API integration.
Designed for payment leaders, Primer provides a unified, flexible, and future-proof platform that evolves with your business.
Primer gives you the freedom to:
- Design, test and optimize your entire payments experience, without taking up engineering resources
- Future-proof your payments stack with full flexibility and control
- Adapt and scale effortlessly as new payment methods and technologies emerge
But you’ll notice that many payment orchestration platforms claim to do this.
So, why should you choose Primer over the alternatives?
Here are a few ways Primer stands out:
Primer is trusted and battle-tested by global merchants
Primer supports merchants in over 30 countries and processes billions in monthly volume. We’ve raised $94 million from Accel, ICONIQ, and Balderton, the same investors behind Adyen, GoCardless, and Revolut.
Our infrastructure handles complex, high-volume data flows across multiple regions and providers, and our integrations are thoroughly tested by market-leading merchants, including Conforama, AppsFlyer, and Hellotickets. Primer is a proven and trusted infrastructure you can rely on.
Our in-depth integrations give you more control over payments
Every integration we launch is built to handle real payment operations, not just the bare minimum. That means supporting the full lifecycle, from payment creation and refunds to metadata updates, cancellations, failure handling, and reconciliation.
Take Stripe, for example. A basic Stripe integration might let you create a payment and issue a refund.
With Primer, the Stripe integration also supports:
- Cancelling payments before settlement
- Updating metadata mid-flow (useful for reconciliation or linking internal systems)
- Handling specific failure codes with custom fallback logic
- Preserving 3DS authentication across retries
- Triggering post-payment actions via webhooks or internal systems
Primer integrations are tested at scale, maintained continuously, and built to support what your business actually needs.
Fallbacks that recover conversions, even in complex markets
Most orchestration platforms offer fallbacks, but not every provider handles the complexity required to make it seamless, especially in regulated or region-specific environments.
Primer supports redundancy across multiple 3DS providers. If one fails, we route authentication through another without disruption. We also preserve 3DS authentication across fallback attempts. If a payment fails after a customer completes 3DS, Primer retries it with a secondary provider without requiring the customer to re-authenticate. That’s essential in SCA-regulated markets like the UK and EU, where friction can hinder conversions.
We also support local card schemes, such as Cartes Bancaires (France), which have their own routing requirements and 3DS behaviors that differ from global schemes. These schemes often offer lower fees and higher approval rates for domestic transactions, provided they are handled correctly.
If your orchestration platform doesn’t fully support them, you risk failed payments, duplicate 3DS prompts, and lost revenue, even when the redundancy is technically “working.” Primer handles these schemes correctly, so your fallback logic works across regions, schemes, and providers without compromise.
How leading companies are using Primer to scale globally
Primer is trusted by leading merchants across the globe.
But don’t just take our word for it: see for yourself.
Maisons du Monde, one of Europe’s best-known furniture and décor retailers
Furniture and home decor brand Maisons du Monde operates online and offline across 11 European countries. With Primer, they quickly integrated multiple payment service providers (PSPs) and optimized their payment processing. Primer’s Universal Checkout provides tailored payment options based on customer location and cart content, significantly reducing cart abandonment.
Ferryhopper, a cross-border travel booking platform operating in 12+ European markets
Online ferry booking platform Ferryhopper boosted its checkout conversion rates using Primer. Ferryhopper relies on Primer to seamlessly manage payments across 12 countries, orchestrating its volumes across five PSPs. It's also turned on several new payment methods, including Apple Pay, Google Pay, and PayPal.
Banxa, a leading fiat-to-crypto on-ramp trusted by global exchanges and wallets
Banxa, adopted Primer to simplify global payment operations. They significantly accelerated their onboarding of new PSPs and alternative payment methods, reducing integration time from months to days. And using Fallbacks, Banxa was able to recover over US$7 million in the first half of 2024 alone.
Pelago, Singapore Airlines’ experience booking platform operating across APAC
Pelago, an airline brand focused on delivering an exceptional customer experience, utilized Primer to implement optimized payment workflows, dynamic routing, and localized checkouts.
"Primer enabled us to customize and optimize payment methods for every market. Our conversion rates and customer satisfaction have noticeably improved as a result." — Michael Chang, Payments Director, Pelago
Join the ranks of industry leaders transforming their payment processes with Primer. Book a call with our team today to explore how Primer can help your business optimize costs, boost performance, and scale efficiently.
2. GR4VY
GR4VY is a cloud-based payment orchestration provider. It enables users to add and manage PSPs flexibly, design custom payment flows, and set up dynamic routing.
Key features:
- Custom, no-code workflows
- Advanced logic capabilities for optimizing payment performance
- Failover routing and retries to prevent failed payments
- Access to a variety of PSPs, payment methods, and risk services
- Dynamic checkout
- Centralized dashboard for viewing payment data
- Import and export card data and tokens from any PSP
3. IXOPAY
IXOPAY is an enterprise-grade payments orchestration solution. Users can choose between standalone modules or an all-in-one payments platform.
Key features:
- Dynamic routing to the best provider based on location, risk, and other data
- White label payment gateway
- Card updater automatically updates stored MasterCard and VISA credit card data
- Create simple and branded checkout forms using built-in Frontend Application Server Technology (FAST) and serve page content in multiple languages
- Built-in risk engine and connections to third-party risk solutions
- Customizable dashboards to view KPIs across all PSPs
- Universal tokenization
4. Payrails
Payrails provides a modular payments platform to optimize payment operations for global enterprises.
Key features:
- Enables intelligent and configurable rules to route payments to different payment service providers (PSPs), fraud providers, and other third-party services based on card type, transaction amount, currency, and country of origin and destination.
- Allows merchants to create custom workflows and add desired PSP and alternative payment method (APM) integrations, seamlessly connecting to existing payment infrastructure.
- Automates financial processes such as payment reconciliation, bookkeeping, and payment analytics to reduce manual efforts and free up resources.
5. Yuno
Yuno offers a payment orchestration platform designed to streamline global payment processes.
Key features:
- Integrates over 300 global payment methods, enabling businesses to cater to diverse customer preferences.
- Automatically retries and routes transactions to optimize approval rates, aiming to reduce payment failures and enhance revenue.
- Allows the creation of tailored checkout experiences with minimal coding, maintaining control over payment methods and visual elements to enhance user experience.
- Consolidates payment operations and analytics into a single platform to reduce operational complexity and improve processes.
Choose Primer as your Spreedly alternative
If you’re planning to make the switch from Spreedly, there are plenty of payment orchestration alternatives out there. Your choice will depend on the size of your business, your budget, and your goals for future growth.
Choose Primer's unified payment infrastructure for no-code PSP integration, extensive third-party apps, and a custom checkout experience for each customer.
Reach out to learn more about how Primer can give you the scalable, flexible payment stack you want.
Sources:
1 https://developer.spreedly.com/
2 https://docs.gr4vy.com/guides/
3 https://www.ixopay.com/en
4 https://payrails.com
5 https://yuno.io
