S02 · Payment technology consulting and advisory services

Solvvit Advisory

Bring business goals, payment flows, architecture, operating constraints, security considerations, and supplier choices into one evidence-led decision path—before delivery commitments harden.

For issuers, acquirers, processors, fintechs, payment platforms, merchants, and program owners planning a new payment capability, modernization, migration, or operating-model change.

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SOLVVIT · S02 ENGAGEMENT READY

PROFESSIONAL SERVICESolvvit Advisory

FocusStrategy → Roadmap

MethodEvidence · Trade-offs

OutcomeDecision clarity

TECHNICAL ADVISORY

FocusStrategy · Architecture · Operations

FormatSprint · Review · Retained

OutputsFindings · Options · Roadmap

01SERVICE OVERVIEW

Make payment-technology decisions with clearer evidence, trade-offs, and next steps.

Define the right problem, assess current capabilities, evaluate solution and supplier options, shape target architecture and operating models, and turn decisions into a prioritized implementation roadmap. Solvvit Advisory provides specialist advice and design assurance; Solvvit Navigate is available separately when a certification program needs managed delivery.

Payment strategy, capability prioritization, and investment-roadmap advisory

Current-state assessment across payment flows, platforms, integrations, operations, and controls

Target architecture and integration advisory for messaging, fraud, issuance, token, checkout, and HSM environments

Solution evaluation, vendor shortlisting, RFP support, and transparent decision criteria

Operating-model, responsibility, governance, service-management, and control design

Implementation, migration, certification-strategy, and design-assurance support

02ADVISORY PROCESS

Move from uncertainty to a decision-ready roadmap.

The advisory path makes assumptions, options, trade-offs, risks, ownership, and decisions explicit before major delivery commitments are made.

01
Frame the decision
Confirm the business outcome, decision owners, scope, constraints, assumptions, stakeholders, and evaluation criteria.
Engagement brief · Decision criteria
02
Assess the current state
Review relevant payment journeys, applications, interfaces, data flows, operating processes, controls, suppliers, and known pain points.
Current-state map · Findings
03
Shape the target state
Define practical architecture, capability, operating-model, integration, and control options aligned with the intended outcome.
Target-state options · Principles
04
Evaluate options
Compare approaches and suppliers against agreed criteria, dependencies, risks, delivery complexity, and organizational fit.
Options matrix · Recommendation
05
Build the roadmap
Sequence decisions, work packages, dependencies, assurance activities, migration steps, and measurable outcomes.
Prioritized roadmap · Investment case
06
Assure and transfer
Review key designs and decisions during delivery, record material departures, and transfer rationale and knowledge to accountable teams.
Assurance log · Knowledge transfer

03ENGAGEMENT OPTIONS

Choose the depth of advice your decision requires.

Use a focused executive sprint, an architecture review, structured vendor evaluation support, or retained specialist advice across a wider transformation.

Executive advisory sprint

Resolve a focused strategic or operating question through targeted discovery, workshops, option analysis, and an actionable recommendation.

Architecture and design review

Assess payment flows, integrations, security boundaries, resilience, operability, and target designs before major delivery commitments.

Vendor and RFP advisory

Define requirements, evaluation criteria, scoring, demonstrations, clarifications, risks, and decision evidence through a transparent process.

Retained payment advisor

Provide continuing specialist input, challenge, design assurance, and decision support across a portfolio or transformation program.

04DELIVERABLES & VISIBILITY

Make assumptions, options, risks, and decisions visible.

Advisory outputs preserve the evidence, criteria, trade-offs, recommendations, and accountable decisions behind the target direction and roadmap.

Current-state diagnostic

Payment-flow, capability, architecture, operating-model, control, dependency, and pain-point findings with explicit assumptions.

Target-state design pack

Architecture views, integration principles, capability model, responsibility boundaries, operating considerations, and design decisions.

Options and recommendation pack

Evaluation criteria, shortlisted options, trade-offs, risks, dependencies, indicative implications, and a reasoned recommendation.

Roadmap and assurance record

Prioritized initiatives, sequencing, decision gates, assurance actions, ownership, unresolved questions, and knowledge-transfer materials.

ADVISORY ENGAGEMENTDECISION CONTROL

AdvisoryAdvisory overview

05SECURITY & PCI DSS

Advisory support with explicit security and compliance boundaries

Solvvit provides specialist analysis, recommendations, and design assurance. Advisory work supports informed decisions but does not replace customer governance, qualified assessments, or the approval authority responsible for the outcome.

Solvvit can support preliminary PCI DSS scoping discussions, account-data-flow mapping, responsibility analysis, gap identification, remediation planning, and evidence-readiness preparation. This advisory support is not a PCI DSS assessment, validation, attestation, or guarantee of compliance and does not replace an applicable qualified assessor or accepting authority.

Define relevant system, data, security, supplier, and operating boundaries
Separate applicable requirements from assumptions and advisory recommendations
Use traceable criteria for solution and supplier evaluation, with interests disclosed
Record material risks, decisions, exceptions, owners, and accountable approvals

Decision authority matters.

Recommendations provide decision support; they are not formal architecture, security, procurement, regulatory, PCI DSS, payment-network, or production approval. The customer and its designated approvers, assessors, networks, acquirers, processors, regulators, or other applicable authorities retain those decisions.

Review the PCI DSS standard

06ENGAGEMENT MODEL

Fit the advice to the decision and delivery horizon.

Delivered through focused advisory sprints, expert reviews, facilitated workshops, retained advisory, or design-assurance checkpoints. Scope may cover business, product, architecture, integration, operations, security, controls, suppliers, and transition planning. The customer retains decision, implementation, and risk ownership. When Solvvit products or services are among the options, that interest is disclosed and evaluation uses agreed criteria. Managed certification coordination can be commissioned separately through Solvvit Navigate.

Shape the engagement

START WITH THE DECISION IN FRONT OF YOU

Bring your next payment decision into focus.

Bring the outcome you need, the constraints you face, the options under consideration, and the evidence already available. We’ll shape a focused advisory engagement.

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