# payments

Processes payment transactions, manages billing cycles, and integrates with external payment providers. All operations are idempotent and transactionally safe.

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**team-fintech**
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**PYTHON**
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**Critical**

⚠ Incident response: 24/7

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## Repository

- **Source:** `https://github.com/vicioussoul/payments`
- **Namespace:** `fintech`
- **Deployment:** `helm`

- **Replicas (prod / staging):** `3 / 1`


## SLA


| Parameter | Value |
|-----------|-------|
| Availability | 99.99% |
| RTO | 15m |
| RPO | 5m |


## Observability

| Signal | Status |
|--------|--------|
| Logs | ✓ Enabled |
| Metrics | ✓ Enabled |
| Tracing | ✓ Enabled |


**Dashboard:** [Open in Grafana](https://grafana.mycorp.internal/d/payments)


## Contacts



- **Slack:** #team-fintech


- **On-call:** [Runbook](https://oncall.mycorp.internal/payments)




## Dependencies

This service depends on:


- [auth](auth.md)

- [notifications](notifications.md)