Question 1

How fast can we go live?

Accepted Answer

Most teams configure, validate, and deploy a first adapter flow in about 48 hours when backend endpoints are ready.

Question 2

Is deployment fully self-hosted?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Adapters run in your infrastructure and align with your existing security and compliance controls.

Question 3

Do we pay monthly fees?

Accepted Answer

No recurring platform fee is required for adapter runtime. Licensing is structured as one-time purchase per adapter.

Question 4

What if our payment method is missing?

Accepted Answer

Design partners can request new adapters and align scope directly with the engineering team.

Question 5

What is a payment adapter?

Accepted Answer

A payment adapter is a self-hosted software component that connects a payment method, PSP, or bank rail to your processing system. It handles protocol translation, authentication, request signing, retries, and webhook delivery so your backend does not need a custom integration for every provider.

Question 6

Payment adapter vs payment gateway - what's the difference?

Accepted Answer

A payment gateway is usually a hosted service that routes transactions through a vendor-controlled platform. A payment adapter runs in your own infrastructure, keeps transaction data inside your environment, and gives your team more control over deployment, compliance boundaries, pricing, and provider switching.

Question 7

How much does a custom payment integration cost?

Accepted Answer

A custom payment integration often costs $50,000-$75,000 in engineering, QA, certification, compliance review, and production hardening. randn.tech reduces that scope with pre-built adapters and one-time licensing instead of rebuilding provider-specific integration logic from scratch.

Question 8

Can I self-host a payment gateway on my own infrastructure?

Accepted Answer

Yes. randn.tech adapters are built for self-hosted deployment on your cloud, Kubernetes, bare metal, or on-premise environment. They support regulated payment infrastructure requirements such as controlled data residency, audit logs, mTLS, signed webhooks, and PCI-DSS aligned boundaries.