Estates with a gateway
Keep the traffic layer. Fix the commercial one.
Your gateway handles routing, authentication and rate limiting perfectly well. It knows nothing about plans, prices or statements, and it was never meant to.
- No rip-out
- No gateway-resident code
- Plans and statements behind it
What is usually in the way
A rip-out nobody will approve
Every monetisation platform in the category wants to be your gateway too, which turns a billing project into a traffic migration and a change freeze.
Plans that live in two places
The gateway holds rate limits, a spreadsheet holds the commercial plan, and the two agree until the day they do not.
A commercial layer built in-house
Metering, rating and invoicing written internally, then owned forever by whoever wrote it.
What Wanda does about it
The architecture is deliberate: Wanda decides and meters, gateways carry traffic, and neither runs the other's code.
Wider gateway support
Adapters for more of the gateways enterprises already run, so bring-your-own covers more of the field.
Configuration authoring
Publish a plan and let the platform generate the gateway configuration from the catalogue rather than maintaining it by hand.
Dual credentials during migration
Run an old key and a new one against the same traffic, so an estate moves across without a cutover weekend.
Your gateway keeps its job
Wanda sits behind what you already run. The existing investment becomes a complement rather than something to re-procure.
No Wanda code inside it
The gateway carries configuration only. Every decision is made in Wanda's own service, so an upgrade on either side is not a joint release.
One place for the plan
Plans, quotas and prices live together, and enforcement reads from the same record that bills. They cannot drift apart.
A decision in about a millisecond
Keys, methods, resources and quotas resolved on the hot path, with the reason recorded for every allow and every denial.
Degradation you can defend
Identity fails closed. Quota fails open within a per-plan bound, so a counter store outage does not stop your customers trading.
Bundled when there is nothing yet
A greenfield estate takes the bundled path and installs one thing rather than integrating two.
Tell us which gateway you run.
That answer shapes the work. The question worth asking is not whether to replace it, but what it costs to meter and bill what it already carries.