BR-DGE vs BridgerPay

BR-DGE is a payment orchestration platform that connects businesses with payment services through a single API. Its modular services include Integrate, Connect, Optimise, Vault, Insights and White Label. Optimise lets businesses build payment workflows and route transactions by rules such as currency, value or provider priority; automatic retries are supported. Insights provides live reports on payment successes and failures, performance, acquiring rates and volumes. Vault offers centralised PCI-compliant tokenisation, including a universal token merchants can use to direct card payments to different providers. The company says the platform has more than 400 connections across payment providers, fraud tools and alternative payment methods. Integration choices include a hosted payment page, web, Android or iOS SDKs, and a REST API. BR-DGE describes itself as a PCI Level 1 certified service provider with a SOC 2 Type 2 attestation, both renewed annually, and says its multi-cloud, multi-region architecture can switch servers automatically. It is based in Edinburgh and was founded in 2018. Pricing is on request.

BridgerPay is a payment orchestration platform for connecting payment providers and managing payment operations, available through web and API. The homepage lists more than 1,000 built-in connections across 185+ countries. Its Router provides a drag-and-drop, no-code way to direct traffic by location, expense, or type. Bridger Retry reroutes payments across payment service providers, and Bridger 3DS provides independent authentication; the company describes these tools as capable of salvaging up to 30% of declines and elevating approvals by up to 10%, respectively. The platform aligns settlements across providers in real time and supports customized payment links delivered by email, SMS, QR code, or website. A modular API supports configuring and testing payment flows. Listed industries include retail and eCommerce, travel, SaaS, financial institutions, and gaming. BridgerPay says it is PCI DSS Level 1 certified and lists encryption, network scans, third-party audits, and continuous security monitoring. The free plan costs nothing and covers 200 transactions per month, one user, one checkout, and two connections.