Anyway Platform: Usage, Billing, and Merchant Operations

1. Introduction & Overview

Anyway Platform is a modern, modular backend designed for SaaS businesses, marketplaces, and platforms. It operates as a microservices-based backend solution engineered for extensibility, reliability, and developer productivity.

The platform’s mission is to abstract away the complexity of payment integration, merchant operations, and compliance, enabling rapid innovation and business agility for digital companies.

2. Getting Started

Follow these simple steps to start accepting payments:

Create Products - Set up your subscription offerings with pricing and billing periods

Generate API Keys - Create secure keys to authenticate your payment requests

Integrate Payments - Use our API to process customer subscriptions

Goals

The platform is designed to achieve several critical business and technical goals:

Reduce Development Effort: Significantly decrease time-to-market for implementing complex pricing and merchant models.

Ensure Accuracy: Provide accurate tracking of customer entitlements, usage, and payments.

Support Diversity: Enable diverse pricing strategies, including subscription, usage-based, and credit-based models.

Provide Visibility: Offer clear billing and business visibility for both customers and internal teams.

3. Key Features and Functionality

Anyway Platform delivers specialized functionality across critical business domains:

3.1. Merchant & Organization Management

This feature set allows users to onboard merchants, assign them to organizations, and manage flexible roles and permissions. It also includes API key management and secure authentication flows.

3.2. Product & Pricing Management

The platform offers a centralized product catalog and pricing logic. Technical teams can create, update, and manage products using advanced pricing models such as subscription, usage-based, and one-time purchases. It also supports complex operational needs like product versioning, grandfathering, and customer migration without code deployments.

3.3. Usage & Feature Management

Anyway Platform helps track included usage, general usage, and balances for features. It supports both metered and non-metered features, credit systems, entities, and access control.

3.4. Payment Orchestration

Functionality includes integrating with multiple payment gateways, wrapping and embedding payment URLs, supporting mobile-optimized flows, and utilizing a payment redirect service for branded, secure payment experiences. End-to-end order lifecycle management is supported, alongside transaction management and audit logging.

3.5. Authentication & Security

The platform provides enterprise-grade security, including modular authentication (JWT, API keys, OTP, email validation), SSL/TLS, secure API filtering, granular access control, and audit logging.

3.6. Developer Tools & Integrations

The platform is designed to be developer-friendly, offering RESTful APIs and UI components for seamless integration.

APIs: Comprehensive RESTful APIs cover all core functionalities (e.g., merchant, product, orders, payments, usage).

Notifications: Automated notifications are supported via multi-provider email delivery (e.g., AWS SES, Mailgun), async sending, and provider delegation.

4. Resources

For further technical documentation and connectivity:

Resource	Link/Detail	Source
Website	[anyway.sh]
Contact Email	[it@anyway.sh]

Introduction

Anyway Platform: Usage, Billing, and Merchant Operations#

1. Introduction & Overview#

2. Getting Started#

Goals#

3. Key Features and Functionality#

3.1. Merchant & Organization Management#

3.2. Product & Pricing Management#

3.3. Usage & Feature Management#

3.4. Payment Orchestration#

3.5. Authentication & Security#

3.6. Developer Tools & Integrations#

4. Resources#