Payments team is working on a bunch of projects and the word provider is much preferred to gateway because of merchant understanding around the term. This is a situation where common merchant use of a term trumps industry standard. Payments team to use payment provider going forward and we'll need to update existing use of gateway.
Update the Style Guide
Replace
payment gateway
withpayment provider
Payments team is working on a bunch of projects and the word
provider
is much preferred togateway
because of merchant understanding around the term. This is a situation where common merchant use of a term trumps industry standard. Payments team to usepayment provider
going forward and we'll need to update existing use of gateway.@HYPD @sfolkes @Shopify/timeline @Shopify/product-content @Shopify/documentation