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API Design for Payment Platforms: Lessons from a Decade of Integrations

Payomatix EngineeringJune 22, 20257 min read

What Lasts

  • Resource-oriented endpoints (`/payments`, `/refunds`, `/disputes`) age better than RPC-style.
  • Idempotency keys on every write.
  • Expandable resources (`?expand[]=customer`) avoid N+1.
  • Cursor-based pagination scales beyond 10K results.
  • Versioned by date, with long deprecation runways.
  • What Hurts

  • Returning amounts as floats (always integers in minor units).
  • Letting timestamps default to local timezone.
  • Mixing snake_case and camelCase.
  • Conflating HTTP status with business outcome (a `200` with `"status": "failed"` is fine; a `500` for a declined card is not).
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