Payment integration and digital commerce
A digital commerce and payment-integration layer — not a bank, not a payment institution.
SAAFER is not a bank, and not a payment institution unless appropriately licensed. It is a digital commerce and payment-integration layer.
Core capabilities
A proposed solution designed to connect merchants and institutions to licensed payment providers and banks through one checkout, references and reconciliation; settlement itself stays with the licensed provider and the banks, and licensing and the issuing of money with the licensed bodies and the Central Bank. No integration exists today.
Payment integration
One checkout through licensed payment providers; SAAFER is not a bank or a payment institution.
Digital commerce
A storefront, products and orders for every merchant, with one checkout.
Financial connectivity
Designed to connect merchants and institutions to licensed payment providers and banks through one interface (no connection exists today) — SAAFER is not a financial institution.
Notifications
The applicant and the institution told of every change, on the channel they choose.
Analytics
Dashboards and indicators from the platform’s data, with no personal data in the reports.
API layer
Documented, authorised interfaces that connect an institution’s systems to SAAFER, with no transfer of ownership or decision.
Cybersecurity
Today: TLS, browser security headers and responsible disclosure (Trust Center); proposed: encryption at rest, an audit log and data separation — in words that can be proven.
The architecture, simply
Authority / Institution
- Banks
- Licensed payment providers
- FinTech companies
- Institutions with fees and invoices
SAAFER
- Payment integration
- Digital commerce
- Financial connectivity
- Notifications
- Analytics
- API layer
Citizen / Business / Provider
- Citizen
- Business
- Provider
A fee paid and reconciled
An institution charges a fee: the invoice is issued through SAAFER, paid through a licensed provider, the payment reference and state return to the institution’s system, and the report reconciles it all.
What SAAFER does
- Technology and digital infrastructure
- Integration and workflow
- User experience and notifications
- The API layer
- One checkout and reconciliation
What the institution retains
- Authority and decisions
- Regulation and licensing
- Ownership of official data
- The operational mandate
- Financial licensing and the issuing of money
Security and governance
- Card data never passes through or rests in SAAFER; processing is at the licensed provider.
- Any collaboration would start with a limited written scope the authority agrees and controls; nothing here is deployed or built today.
- The data belongs to the authority; SAAFER would process it on its instructions under a written agreement (controller/processor), stored where the agreement says.
Interested in a full solution?
The full solution is shared after a conversation with the SAAFER team.