Payment Links Review

Purpose

Produce a reviewable payment links review outcome that is grounded in repository evidence and explicit about uncertainty.

When to Use

Use for planning, design, implementation review, migration, troubleshooting, or documentation where the task must design the customer-to-merchant journey from discovery through checkout, payment, fulfillment signals, returns, support, and partner operations.

Inputs

• Goal, audience, scope, constraints, and success criteria.
• Relevant source files, contracts, examples, logs, and decisions.
• Known risks, assumptions, dependencies, and approval boundaries.

Process

1. Restate the intended outcome and affected audiences.
2. Inventory exact current behavior and source-backed constraints.
3. Apply the relevant APT principles and identify missing evidence.
4. Compare viable options, including compatibility and operational effects.
5. Produce the required artifacts: journey and state map, checkout options, payment lifecycle, merchant and partner onboarding, failure recovery, accessibility, analytics, and support flow.
6. Review conversion-only design, hidden fees or states, brittle checkout recovery, unclear merchant operations, and payment behavior detached from customer intent; separate blockers, recommendations, and open questions.

Outputs

A concise recommendation, evidence map, required changes, risks, validation plan, support/documentation impact, and approval status.

Quality Bar

The output is practical, source-backed, audience-aware, testable, reversible where possible, and does not state assumptions as facts.

Domain Checklist

• Treat Payment Links Review as an explicit decision with defined scope, evidence, owner, and validation.
• Trace authorization, capture, settlement, funding, reconciliation, reversal, dispute, and support evidence.
• State what is verified, what is assumed, and what requires specialist or human approval.

Required Reading

Read the canonical Ecommerce principle hub, the closest enforceable standard, the applicable checklist, and exact target-repository evidence.

References

• Ecommerce principles
• Templates
• Agents