Worldpay Access + Shuttle

Worldpay Access, the enterprise gateway platform from Worldpay (FIS), represents the processing scale of the world’s largest payment company. Worldpay processes over 40 billion transactions annually with local acquiring capabilities in 146 countries, giving it one of the broadest geographic footprints of any single acquirer. The Access platform is its modern API-driven gateway, offering intelligent payment routing that dynamically selects the optimal processing path based on card type, issuer location, and transaction characteristics. Worldpay’s direct relationships with card networks and issuing banks worldwide translate to authorization rate advantages that are difficult for smaller processors to match, particularly for enterprise-volume merchants.

Shuttle integrates with Worldpay Access to bring enterprise-grade global acquiring into a PSP-neutral architecture. Through Shuttle’s Embedded Payments, platforms can route high-volume or geographically diverse transactions to Worldpay Access for maximum authorization rates while maintaining connections to specialized regional processors or alternative PSPs for redundancy. This is critical infrastructure for platforms where payment uptime directly impacts revenue — if one processor experiences an outage, Shuttle automatically fails over to another connected PSP, and Worldpay’s scale means it often serves as the reliable backbone in these configurations. Voice Checkout transactions processed through Worldpay Access benefit from the processor’s card-not-present optimization and network tokenization, while Payment Links leverage Worldpay’s dynamic currency conversion to present local currency pricing to international buyers.

The decision to access Worldpay through Shuttle rather than integrating directly reflects a strategic reality that even the largest processors do not excel everywhere. Worldpay’s strength is its global scale and major market coverage, but specific regions or verticals may be better served by local specialists. Shuttle allows platforms to pair Worldpay Access with complementary processors — using Worldpay for primary global processing while routing specific corridors through local acquirers that offer better rates or higher approval percentages in their home markets. Shuttle normalizes the data from Worldpay’s enterprise reporting format alongside other PSPs, giving platforms a single view of their payment operations regardless of which processor handled each transaction. For platforms operating at enterprise scale, this orchestration capability transforms payments from a fixed vendor dependency into a dynamically optimizable component of their business.