Embedded Finance
Embedded finance is the set of financial features your product carries inside itself. Payments and checkout, lending and pay-later, card issuing and wallets, insurance, and payouts. The hard part is the layer underneath, the provider integration, orchestration, and ledger that make a third party behave like your own code. We build that layer and the money-movement controls inside it, then run it with you.
How we help
Product teams get finance features that read as part of the app, with the money-movement plumbing engineered underneath.
Finance that stays inside your product
Users pay, borrow, or get paid without a redirect to a third-party site. We build the provider integration and the front-end flow together, so the branding, the error states, and the confirmation come from your app. The finance step stops feeling like a detour and support stops explaining someone else's screen.
Money movement you can account for
Each charge, payout, and fee lands in a double-entry ledger your team owns. When finance asks where a balance sits or why a number moved, the answer comes from one record instead of four provider dashboards. Reconciliation runs against your data, so a mismatch surfaces early rather than at month-end close.
One team that builds and runs it
The engineers who wire the provider, the webhooks, and the reconciliation stay available after launch. When a rail changes its API or volume spikes, the people who know the system handle it. You avoid the handoff gap where a build team leaves and the finance flow becomes nobody's responsibility.
What we deliver
Six finance features, each wired into your product with the ledger and reconciliation behind it.
Embedded payments & checkout
Your checkout collects cards, wallets, and bank debits through a payment provider your team would rather not babysit. We build the provider integration, tokenized card capture, and webhook handling behind one checkout flow. Retries, 3-D Secure, and failed-payment states get handled in your app, so support stops fielding stuck-order tickets.
Embedded lending & BNPL
A borrower applies for credit or a pay-later plan without leaving your product. We wire the lending provider, the decisioning callback, and the repayment schedule into your own data model. Before this, teams bolt on a redirect that drops conversion and hides loan status from the user. We keep both inside the app.
Card issuing & digital wallets
A card program needs a BIN sponsor, a processor, and KYC on each cardholder. We integrate the issuer API, provision virtual and physical cards, and hold balances in a wallet ledger you control. Teams often discover late that spend controls and transaction webhooks were an afterthought. We build them into the first release.
Embedded insurance
A user buys coverage at the moment it matters, priced for the item in their cart. We connect the insurer or MGA API, map quote and bind calls to your checkout, and store policy state next to the order. Teams that embed a raw iframe lose claim status and renewal data. We pull those events back into your system.
Payouts & disbursements
Sellers, contractors, and claimants need money out on a schedule, across rails and currencies. We build the payout provider integration, the approval workflow, and the ledger entries that match each transfer to its source. Before this, finance teams reconcile bank statements by hand and chase failed transfers through email.
Money orchestration & ledger
One payment provider is rarely enough once volume and geography grow. We build the orchestration layer that routes across providers, plus a double-entry ledger that records each balance and movement. Teams that skip the ledger cannot answer where money sits or why a reconciliation breaks. We make that record the source of truth.
Our technology radar
Where we stand today. The Hold ring is the one that matters: these are positions we argue against, including when a client asks for them.
The default unless there is a reason not to.
- Your own ledger from transaction one
- Provider-agnostic interfaces
- Explicit money-movement boundaries
- Reconciliation with the provider from the start
- Clear ownership of the customer relationship and the obligations that follow it
We use these on new work and watch them closely.
- Multi-provider orchestration in embedded contexts
- Card issuing via API in newly opened markets
We argue against these.
- Treating the provider dashboard as your books
- Embedding without a ledger, which is discoverable only once the numbers disagree
- Assuming the provider compliance posture covers your obligations
- Building the integration into product code instead of behind a port
Provider plumbing that behaves like your own code
One integration layer carries payments, cards, lending, and payouts into your product, with a ledger recording each movement underneath.
How we work
Discover
Systems, constraints, and the regulation you operate under get mapped before implementation starts, so the design accounts for what already runs and for what examiners will ask about.
Architect
A design that fits your stack. Integration-first, self-hostable, and built to change as rails, regulation, and volume do.
Build
Senior engineers ship in tight increments, each tested and reviewed as it goes, so the system is reviewable at every step instead of only at the end.
Harden
Security, compliance, and load-testing run inside the build, so controls, audit trails, and peak-volume behavior are proven before launch.
Run
The handover includes clean, documented systems, with the option to keep the same engineers operating them once they are live.
Why Oxagile
Provider-agnostic orchestration
We do not resell one provider. We build the routing layer that sits above them, so you can add a second processor or switch a payout rail without rewriting the checkout. This keeps pricing negotiable and protects the product when a provider changes terms or a region needs a local partner.
You own the ledger
The double-entry ledger lives in your infrastructure, not inside a vendor account you cannot export. Balances, holds, and fees are recorded as immutable entries your finance and audit teams can query directly. If you change providers later, the record of each movement stays with you and reconciliation logic does not restart.
Compliance treated as engineering
PCI DSS 4.0 scope, KYC and KYB flows, and BIN-sponsor requirements shape the design before code ships. We build tokenization, audit trails, and access controls that an examiner can inspect. Licensing and sponsorship realities get named up front, so a program does not stall when the regulated partner reviews it.
A finance surface that stays native
The finance flow uses your components, your copy, and your error handling. We treat the provider SDK as a back-end dependency and rebuild the surface a user touches. The result reads as one product, so trust holds at the exact moment a user hands over card or bank details.
What our architects hand you
Delivered from Presales and Discovery, yours to keep whatever you decide next.
Book an architecture sessionSystem Design
Target architecture against your systems, with failure domains and the order things get built.
API contracts
Every integration point written before an implementation exists.
Compliance scope assessment
Which systems fall in scope under each option, and what the design removes.
Cloud cost model
What it costs to run at your volume, by component.
Security review
Threat model for the paths that move money or hold personal data.
Migration and cutover plan
Parallel run, reconciliation, gradual shift, and a rollback point at each step.
Questions
Common questions from product teams weighing an embedded finance build.
Do you become the regulated entity or the licensed provider?
No. We build and run the software. The license, the BIN sponsorship, and the money-transmission permissions sit with a regulated partner or with you. We help you scope which partner fits, integrate their API, and design the controls their compliance team will review. The engineering is ours and the regulated status stays with the licensed party.
How do you handle PCI DSS scope?
We design so card data lands in a tokenization service and does not touch your servers in the clear. That keeps most of your systems out of direct PCI DSS 4.0 scope. We document the data flows, build the audit trail, and set access controls, so your assessor can trace where a card number goes and who can reach it.
Can we self-host, or does this run on your cloud?
The systems we build are yours and can run in your own cloud or on-premise environment. The ledger, the orchestration layer, and the reconciliation jobs deploy where your compliance and data-residency rules require. We integrate the external provider APIs from inside that boundary, so sensitive records stay under your control.
What if we want to switch payment or payout providers later?
The orchestration layer exists for that. Provider-specific code sits behind an internal interface, so adding or replacing a processor changes an adapter rather than the checkout. Your ledger and reconciliation keep running against the same records. We size the migration honestly, because each provider has its own quirks in refunds, disputes, and settlement timing.
How long before something is in production?
A first flow, one payment method through a single provider with the ledger behind it, usually reaches production in a few sprints. We ship in tight increments, so an early version runs and gets reviewed before the full program is built. Card issuing and lending take longer, because the regulated partner and KYC add their own timelines.
Embedded Finance, broken down
Each of these goes deeper than this page does: the systems we build, how they are put together, and what we hand over.
What we’ve shipped
Case studies for this competency are in progress.
Financial features,
native to your product.
Tell us what you want to embed: payments, cards, lending, payouts. We'll build the integration, orchestration and ledger around your providers.