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Integration Readiness Scorecard
Score the three conditions that decide how fast a payments integration ships: a clear ICP and use case, protected engineering time with executive backing, and engineering experience with payment APIs.
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Score your integration readiness across three conditions
Score your team 1 to 5 on each item. 1 is weak, 5 is strong.
ICP Clarity & Use Case Definition
Not scoredDefined ideal customer profile
not scoredWhat to evaluate: Can you describe your target customer in two sentences: business type, geography, payment need, and what a successful payment looks like?
Use cases defined in compliance terms
not scoredWhat to evaluate: Have you documented your payment use cases with the five-element specificity compliance teams require: sender type, sender jurisdiction, destination, purpose, beneficiary type?
Corridors prioritised by customer demand
not scoredWhat to evaluate: Do you have a ranked list of corridors to activate based on what your current customers actually need, not a wish list of every market you might serve one day?
Business roadmap documented
not scoredWhat to evaluate: Do you have a written integration roadmap that shows your partner what you need in Phase 1, 2, and 3, not just a list of features you want?
CEO Leadership & Protected Engineering Time
Not scoredCEO actively leading the integration
not scoredWhat to evaluate: Is the CEO or founder personally involved in integration decisions, in the room making calls, not delegating entirely to a project manager?
Engineering time protected and dedicated
not scoredWhat to evaluate: Has your engineering team’s time been formally protected for the integration, with a clear expectation that it is the priority until it is live?
Internal alignment on what success looks like
not scoredWhat to evaluate: Has your team agreed what a successful integration looks like: specific metrics, go-live criteria, and how you will know when it is working?
Decision-making speed during integration
not scoredWhat to evaluate: When a question arises mid-integration (a use case edge case, a compliance clarification, a corridor call), how quickly can your team decide?
Engineering Experience with Payment APIs
Not scoredPrior payment API integration experience
not scoredWhat to evaluate: Has at least one developer integrated against a payments or financial services API before, including authentication flows, webhooks, and error handling in a regulated context?
Familiarity with compliance-adjacent engineering
not scoredWhat to evaluate: Does engineering understand the compliance requirements that affect implementation: how use cases affect API calls, why beneficiary data varies by corridor, how KYB/KYC flows affect the build?
Sandbox and test environment discipline
not scoredWhat to evaluate: Does your team use a sandbox effectively: building against test data, validating edge cases, and not going live until validation is complete?
Clear ownership of integration tasks
not scoredWhat to evaluate: Is it clear which developer owns which part: authentication, use case implementation, error handling, webhooks, reconciliation, and go-live validation?
Score all 12 criteria to see your verdict.
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