Patent ID: 11887076
Assignee: SALESFORCE, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A cloud-based computing system, comprising:
a multitenant database system that is configurable to provide applications and services to a plurality of clients, wherein each client is a tenant or organization of a cloud computing platform that transacts business with one or more customers via one or more of the respective payment gateways that are external to the cloud computing platform; and
a payments platform module having a pluggable architecture configurable to integrate one or more of the respective payment gateway adapters of a plurality of different respective payment gateways with the cloud computing platform so that one or more of the clients of the multitenant database system are configured to selectively integrate a selected one or more of the respective payment gateway adapters to implement to perform payment transactions using the plurality of different respective payment gateways via the payments platform module of the cloud computing platform, wherein the respective payment gateway of the plurality of different respective payment gateways comprises a payment gateway adapter configured to provide different payment gateway functionality customized for the respective payment gateway, and wherein the payments platform module provides:
payment gateway client application programming interfaces (APIs) that are coded using a custom programming language of the cloud computing platform to interact with the plurality of different respective payment gateways; and
payment gateway adapter APIs of the respective payment gateway adapters for the plurality of different respective payment gateways, wherein the payment gateway adapter APIs are configurable to enable the respective payment gateway to integrate with the payments platform module.