Find payment risks before they delay delivery.
One workspace to assess payment flows, challenge design choices and plan validation.
The payment question
The customer retries.
A £24 wallet payment times out. Could another tap charge twice?
Illustrative scenarios. Plan validation in your own test environment.
See the platform in action
See how SyncYourCloud helps payment teams assess readiness, identify priority gaps, and make clearer compliance and architecture decisions.
Architecture Decisions That Are Clear, Documented, and Defensible
Review readiness indicators, evidence references, priority questions and engineering actions in one place so each team can work from the same assessment information.
Review potential control gaps, supporting evidence references and architectural decisions that need further validation.
How It Works
Follow the assessment journey from defining your payment environment to reviewing priority gaps and organising the next actions into a practical remediation plan.
Scope your payment stack
Tell us about your payment model, processing footprint, PCI DSS target, delivery timeline, and engineering capacity. Your answers establish the context needed to assess your payment infrastructure and identify the areas requiring closer review.
Surface the blockers fast
Review the gaps that could delay acquirer approval, increase remediation costs, or expose control weaknesses before an audit. Findings are grouped by priority so your team can focus on the issues with the greatest potential impact.
Give leadership one clear view
Bring readiness indicators, evidence references, priority questions and recommended actions into one operating view. Engineering, compliance and leadership can use the same information when deciding what needs attention next.
Review decisions, not just findings
Use the assessment findings to structure conversations about evidence, architecture trade-offs, and delivery priorities. This helps your team move from identifying a gap to agreeing on a practical response.
Move to a prioritised roadmap
Organise the findings into a clear remediation plan based on risk, effort, ownership, and delivery impact. Your team can see what to address first, what requires further evidence, and what can be scheduled later.
Free account required - No credit card - Readiness results shown on screen
See what your free assessment can reveal
From assessment answers to a clearer picture of your risks.
Explore illustrative scorecard previews before creating your free account. Actual scores and recommendations depend on your answers; these are not customer results or compliance determinations.
PCI DSS Gap Analysis
Example controls addressed
Example category breakdown
Example next actions
One workspace. Four connected payment workflows.
Enter at the stage that matches your current problem. Keep the specialist tools, but use them as connected steps from initial assessment to an architecture and evidence trail your team can maintain.
Assess
Identify readiness, control and evidence questions that could delay launch, review or approval.
Scored assessments · Prioritised gaps · Review starting point
Explore AssessDesign
Define data boundaries, architecture decisions, agent identities and deterministic safety controls.
Data flows · Guardrail configurations · Architecture decisions
Explore DesignTest
Challenge the proposed design against latency, growth, failure, rollback and regional disruption.
Failure playbooks · Recovery decisions · Resilience plans
Explore TestEvidence
Organise control ownership, implementation status, evidence references and decision history.
Control matrix · ADR record · Structured review trail
Explore EvidencePayment Architecture Review
Reduce payment risk. Simplify architecture. Control cost.
Understand where one critical payment flow may be creating security exposure, unnecessary complexity or operational risk.
Our expert-led review evaluates your existing payment architecture and its supporting infrastructure. You receive evidence-qualified findings and prioritised recommendations — with scope agreed before the engagement. Redesign, implementation and specialist testing are not included unless separately agreed.
Founding Client Architecture Review · £3,500 fixed fee
First three founding clients only. Standard fee thereafter: £5,000. Free initial fit conversation; scope, taxes, payment terms and delivery timing agreed before work begins.
Request a free fit conversation ↓See how it works ↓Assess · Understand the current architecture
Confirm the existing payment flow, review objectives and evidence needed.
Review · Examine the existing design
Evaluate security, resilience, dependencies, trade-offs and operational cost.
Validate · Qualify the findings
Check findings against available evidence, separate assumptions and identify specialist testing needs.
Recommend · Prioritise next steps
Deliver recommendations, evidence references, decision owners and areas for further investigation.
After engagement approval · Example client workspace
Architecture Review
Assess the existing payment flow
Confirm the agreed payment journey, current architecture, evidence owners and review questions.
View assessment scope →Illustrative workspace preview · Sample figures and actions, not a live client account. Actual deliverables depend on the agreed engagement scope.
This is a review of the existing architecture, not a new architecture design or implementation. It is not a PCI DSS certification, QSA audit, penetration test or guarantee of regulatory compliance.
Ready to discuss your payment architecture?
Tell us which payment flow needs attention. We start with a short fit conversation, then agree any scope and commercial terms before work begins.
What happens next
Four simple steps, with no commitment to paid work during the initial conversation.
Share your challenge
Tell us which existing payment flow matters, what decision is approaching, and what is unclear. The initial application does not require you to send sensitive payment data or confidential diagrams.
Then your review moves into delivery. Once the engagement is agreed, the approved payment-flow scope, review objectives and deliverables form the starting point for your private Architecture Review workspace. Assess → Review → Validate → Recommend follows within the agreed scope; no second discovery process or new architecture design is implied.
Request a fit conversationNo certification or compliance outcome is promised. If the work requires a QSA, penetration tester, legal adviser or another specialist, that dependency will be identified rather than represented as part of the review.
Understand the current architecture before deciding what to change.
The review follows one payment flow from entry to outcome. It separates what can be observed, what your team states, what remains uncertain and what requires specialist confirmation.
1. Assess the current state
Map the flow, system boundaries, third parties, data movement, dependencies, ownership and the evidence currently available.
2. Test the architecture
Challenge assumptions, failure paths, recovery decisions, control ownership and evidence traceability through structured review—not penetration testing.
3. Organise the evidence
Turn findings into a traceable inventory of decisions, evidence references, open questions, responsible owners and prioritised next actions.
Assessment Questions, Outcomes and Next Steps
Build Your Initial PCI DSS Readiness View — Free
Create a structured initial review against PCI DSS v4.0.1, then confirm each answer and supporting evidence with the people responsible for your environment. Free Sync Your Cloud account required.
Start Your Free PCI DSS Gap ReviewPCI DSS and acquirer readiness guides
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How to integrate agent-driven payment workflows while keeping PCI scope, segregation of duties, and controls clear for audit.
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PCI Scope Governance on AWS: Why FullAWSAccess Breaks More Than It Fixes
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Payment Architecture Decisions That Cut Audit Delays Before Acquirer Review
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