# Overview

### Introduction

This payment gateway platform enables any Vertical Market SaaS company to offer payments solutions to their customers, without the headache, hassle, or cost of doing so.

Due to the nature of all the business layers involved for software vendors that serve vertical markets, it's important to understand all the layers that this technology serves. The following image illustrates the relationship between the three distinct layers that a payments solution would need to account order to provide a seamless experience for all the players involved.

![](https://2556322805-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MRlN2yYeruyG-6M2wZN%2F-MRp3I-Qd3yv5KTxeXtI%2F-MRp3zQT4UIv3Ejpk-Nw%2FScreen%20Shot%202021-01-24%20at%207.47.02%20AM.png?alt=media\&token=75a21c1a-6c54-4f11-8918-a4c8f68c74ac)

This document is split into multiple sections, each representing a lifecycle phase related to your merchants' payment processing journey.

1. New Merchant Onboarding
2. Processing Payments
3. Reporting


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