Cloud computing platform, method and system having a payments platform for integrating a synchronous payment gateway service with the cloud computing platform

A cloud-based computing system, the cloud-based computing system comprising:

• a plurality of payment gateways comprising a particular payment gateway;
• a cloud computing platform, comprising:
• a multitenant database system that is configurable to provide applications and services to a plurality of clients, wherein each client is a tenant or organization of the cloud computing platform;
• and
• a payments platform for integrating the plurality of payment gateways with the cloud computing platform so that the plurality of clients can perform payment transactions with customers using the plurality of payment gateways via the cloud computing platform, wherein the payments platform, when executed by a first hardware-based processing system, is configurable to cause:
• receiving a payment request from a particular client of the plurality of clients;
• initializing and calling a particular payment gateway adapter of a plurality of payment gateway adapters to send the payment request to the particular payment gateway adapter, wherein the particular payment gateway adapter corresponds to the particular payment gateway of the plurality of payment gateways;
• transforming, at the particular payment gateway adapter, the payment request into a gateway specific format of the particular payment gateway to generate a transformed payment request;
• performing internal processing at the payments platform and calling the particular payment gateway via the particular payment gateway adapter to send the transformed payment request to the particular payment gateway;
• wherein the particular payment gateway, when executed by a second hardware-based processing system, is configurable to cause:
• receiving the transformed payment request;
• processing the transformed payment request to generate an actual payment response and sending the actual payment response to the payments platform;
• wherein the payments platform, when executed by the first hardware-based processing system, is further configurable to cause:
• forwarding the actual payment response to the particular payment gateway adapter;
• transforming, at the particular payment gateway adapter, the actual payment response into a specific format used by the payments platform to generate a transformed payment response;
• and sending the transformed payment response from the particular payment gateway adapter to the payments platform;
• and
• persisting data from the transformed payment response in a payment record at the multitenant database system of the cloud computing platform.