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Flywire Integration Guide
Integrate Flywire payment initiation, status tracking, refunds, and selected payment notifications with institutional and enterprise systems.
Flywire integration options at a glance
Flywire integrations are primarily built around account-specific REST APIs for initiating payments, retrieving payment and transaction details, checking status, and managing refunds where enabled. Selected Flywire products also support payment-status notifications or outbound callbacks, although event coverage and verification requirements must be confirmed for the contracted service. Reporting APIs, asynchronous exports, settlement reports, and scheduled files may be available by arrangement, but should not be assumed. Martini can consume Flywire APIs, receive supported notifications through an exposed REST endpoint, validate and transform payment data, orchestrate downstream updates, and run scheduled reconciliation workflows. Flywire credentials and webhook verification values can be kept in protected Martini configuration.
| Integration point | Supported by Flywire? | Common use cases | How Martini supports it |
|---|---|---|---|
| REST APIs | Yes | Flywire’s primary integration model for payment initiation, payment lookup, status retrieval, transaction lookup, refunds where enabled, and selected reporting or reference operations. | Martini can consume Flywire REST endpoints from workflows, map request and response payloads, apply validation and business rules, and expose a normalized internal API. |
| Webhooks / outbound callbacks | Limited | Selected Flywire products or events can provide payment-status notifications. Coverage, payload authority, retry behavior, and verification requirements vary. | Martini can expose a REST endpoint, validate notifications, deduplicate events, retrieve authoritative payment state, and route updates to downstream systems. |
| Authentication | Limited | Flywire supplies account-specific API credentials, with permissions and credential schemes depending on the product and enabled operations. | Martini can store credentials in protected environment configuration or secrets and keep test and production settings separate. |
| Bulk / async / batch APIs | Not confirmed | Reporting APIs, asynchronous exports, settlement reports, or batch operations may be available for particular Flywire services or arrangements. | Martini can orchestrate supported asynchronous or scheduled interfaces once their availability and contract-specific behavior are confirmed. |
| File import/export | Not confirmed | Scheduled settlement or reporting files may be supplied by arrangement, but a general-purpose Flywire file API was not confirmed. | Martini can process supported file deliveries through scheduled workflows when the delivery mechanism is available in the deployed environment. |
| GraphQL APIs | Not confirmed | No official general-purpose Flywire GraphQL interface was identified in the supplied research. | Martini can consume GraphQL generally, but Flywire integrations should use confirmed REST or notification mechanisms instead. |
| SOAP APIs | Not confirmed | No official general-purpose Flywire SOAP interface was identified in the supplied research. | Martini supports SOAP generally, but no Flywire SOAP integration should be assumed without product-specific confirmation. |
| Database access | No | Direct access to Flywire-managed production databases is not an expected integration method. | Martini should use Flywire APIs, supported callbacks, and formally provided reporting or file exports rather than direct database access. |
How Flywire exposes data and business events
Flywire REST APIs
REST is Flywire’s primary integration mechanism to evaluate. Depending on the product and account configuration, REST operations may support payment initiation, payment retrieval, status checks, transaction lookup, refunds, and selected reporting or reference data.
Martini implementation pattern
Martini implementation pattern: a workflow or exposed Martini API validates the request, stores credentials outside the workflow definition, calls the applicable Flywire endpoint over HTTPS, maps the response into a canonical payment model, and routes the result to institutional or finance systems. Exact resources, pagination behavior, permissions, and response fields must be confirmed with Flywire.
Implementation sequence
Flywire payment notifications
Flywire supports payment-status notification patterns for selected products or events. These notifications are not an unrestricted event stream for every Flywire object, and event types, retries, payload authority, and verification must be confirmed.
Martini implementation pattern
Martini implementation pattern: expose a REST endpoint for the supported callback, validate its signature or shared-secret mechanism when required, record the event or payment identifier, and retrieve the current Flywire payment when the notification is only a signal or is not authoritative. The workflow then updates downstream systems idempotently.
Implementation sequence
Common Flywire integration patterns
Pattern 1: Synchronize student payment status
When to use this pattern
Use scheduled incremental synchronization when an institution needs reliable payment and transaction updates in a student information or finance system, including recovery from missed notifications.
Integration direction
Example Mapping
| Flywire Field | Canonical Field | Target Field |
|---|---|---|
| payment.id | externalPaymentId | Flywire Payment Reference |
| payment.status | paymentStatus | Payment Status |
| payment.amount | amount | Applied Amount |
| payment.currency | currencyCode | Currency Code |
Martini implementation pattern
A scheduler starts a Martini workflow that retrieves pages of recently changed Flywire Payments and Transactions using an overlap window or persisted high-water mark. The workflow maps identifiers, statuses, amounts, and currencies, applies explicit handling for pending, successful, failed, cancelled, and refunded states, checks the target before writing, and logs or retries downstream failures without repeating unsafe financial operations.
Martini capabilities used
- scheduled workflows
- API consumption
- pagination handling
- data mapping
- business rules
- error handling
Pattern 2: Process real-time payment notifications
When to use this pattern
Use supported Flywire payment notifications for timely updates while retaining Flywire retrieval as the source-of-truth step for important financial changes.
Integration direction
Example Mapping
| Flywire Field | Canonical Field | Target Field |
|---|---|---|
| notification.paymentId | externalPaymentId | Payment Reference |
| notification.eventType | notificationType | Integration Event |
| payment.status | paymentStatus | Student Payment Status |
| payment.updatedAt | lastChangedAt | Last Updated |
Martini implementation pattern
Flywire calls a Martini REST endpoint. Martini validates the notification, deduplicates it, retrieves the current Payment when needed, maps the authoritative status, and updates Workday Student. Duplicate, delayed, and out-of-order notifications are handled through stored identifiers or status checks, while downstream failures are recorded for controlled replay.
Martini capabilities used
- REST API creation
- webhook handling
- workflow orchestration
- validation
- data mapping
- idempotency
- monitoring
Pattern 3: Initiate payments through a normalized API
When to use this pattern
Use an API façade when an institutional portal or finance application needs to initiate Flywire payments without holding Flywire credentials or depending on Flywire-specific payloads.
Integration direction
Example Mapping
| Flywire Field | Canonical Field | Target Field |
|---|---|---|
| payer.reference | payerReference | Flywire Payer Reference |
| payment.amount | amount | Flywire Amount |
| payment.currency | currencyCode | Flywire Currency |
| payment.reference | institutionalPaymentReference | Flywire Payment Reference |
Martini implementation pattern
A Martini API accepts a normalized payment request, validates payer, institution, amount, currency, and reference data, applies duplicate-submission checks, and invokes the enabled Flywire payment operation. It returns a normalized response with correlation identifiers and distinguishes accepted, rejected, and uncertain outcomes so callers do not blindly resubmit financial operations.
Martini capabilities used
- API creation
- API consumption
- secrets management
- validation
- business rules
- data transformation
- audit logging
Pattern 4: Execute controlled refunds and reconciliation
When to use this pattern
Use this pattern when finance teams need approved refunds and a separate process to compare Flywire transactions or settlement information with an accounting platform.
Integration direction
Example Mapping
| Flywire Field | Canonical Field | Target Field |
|---|---|---|
| refund.paymentId | externalPaymentId | Flywire Payment Identifier |
| refund.amount | refundAmount | Flywire Refund Amount |
| refund.approvalId | approvalReference | Audit Reference |
| transaction.settlementAmount | settledAmount | NetSuite Settlement Amount |
Martini implementation pattern
Martini receives an approved refund request, validates authorization and payment references, prevents duplicate requests, and invokes the enabled Flywire refund operation. A separate scheduled workflow retrieves Transactions or supported reporting data, compares identifiers, amounts, currencies, dates, fees, and refunds with NetSuite, and routes mismatches for review rather than silently correcting financial records.
Martini capabilities used
- workflow orchestration
- API consumption
- validation
- business rules
- idempotency
- scheduled synchronization
- reconciliation
- error handling
Applications commonly integrated with Flywire
Flywire payment data can be coordinated with institutional, finance, customer-service, and relationship-management applications. These are integration scenarios rather than claims of Flywire-certified or native product integrations; endpoint support depends on each organization’s Flywire service and application configuration.
| Application | Scenario | Direction | Martini Pattern |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ellucian Banner | Synchronize student identifiers, account references, payment status, amounts, and financial records with institutional systems. | Flywire → Martini → Ellucian Banner | Use Flywire REST retrieval or selected payment notifications to trigger a workflow, map Payments and Transactions into Banner’s institutional model, apply status and duplicate checks, and retry only safe downstream operations. |
| Ellucian Colleague | Post or reconcile student payments and connect Flywire payer and payment references to student accounts. | Flywire → Martini → Ellucian Colleague | Run an event-driven or scheduled workflow that retrieves authoritative payment state, transforms payer and transaction identifiers, writes updates to Colleague, and records correlation and error information. |
| Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions | Match Flywire payments with student accounts and maintain current payment status for campus finance processes. | Flywire → Martini → Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions | Expose a normalized Martini API or schedule incremental Flywire retrieval, validate institution and student references, map monetary values and currencies, and handle uncertain financial outcomes without unsafe retries. |
| Workday Student | Synchronize student payment information and related financial status with student administration processes. | Flywire → Martini → Workday Student | Receive supported Flywire notifications or poll within an overlap window, normalize payment statuses, apply business rules, and update Workday through its supported APIs while preserving audit identifiers. |
| Salesforce | Give admissions, enrollment, donor, or customer-service teams payment status and payer context. | Flywire → Martini → Salesforce | Use a Martini workflow to consume Flywire payment data, map payer and payment references to Salesforce objects, route failed or delayed statuses, and make processing idempotent. |
| ServiceNow | Create support or finance cases for failed, delayed, disputed, or exceptional payment situations. | Flywire → Martini → ServiceNow | Process selected Flywire notifications or scheduled exception queries, apply status-routing rules, and create or update ServiceNow cases with correlation identifiers and controlled retry handling. |
| NetSuite | Reconcile Flywire payments, refunds, settlement information, and fees with accounting records. | Flywire → Martini → NetSuite | Combine incremental Flywire API retrieval with approved refund requests from NetSuite, validate payment references and amounts, map transactions into accounting structures, and isolate financial operations requiring review. |
| Microsoft Dynamics 365 | Synchronize payment status with customer-service, relationship-management, or finance processes. | Flywire → Martini → Microsoft Dynamics 365 | Normalize Flywire Payments and Transactions in Martini, apply routing and duplicate rules, and write status updates to Dynamics 365 while logging failures for replay or reconciliation. |
How to build a Flywire integration in Martini
Objective
Establish Flywire connectivity using the account-specific credentials and permissions for the contracted API product.
Instructions in Martini
- Confirm the applicable Flywire REST resources, permissions, environments, and webhook verification requirements.
- Store credentials and verification values in protected Martini secrets or environment configuration.
- Use separate test and production configuration where Flywire provides separate environments.
Objective
Select the trigger that matches the business process and the reliability requirements of the payment flow.
Instructions in Martini
- Use an API request for payment initiation or on-demand lookup.
- Use a Flywire notification endpoint for selected real-time payment events.
- Use a scheduler for incremental retrieval, reconciliation, or recovery from missed notifications.
Objective
Receive or retrieve Flywire payment information and establish the authoritative state before updating downstream systems.
Instructions in Martini
- Validate inbound notifications before processing them.
- Retrieve the current Payment or Transaction when a notification is only a signal.
- Handle pagination, continuation values, and bounded overlap windows for scheduled retrieval.
Objective
Coordinate validation, Flywire calls, target-system updates, and audit behavior in a maintainable Martini workflow.
Instructions in Martini
- Create separate flows for payment initiation, notification processing, refunds, and reconciliation where their controls differ.
- Carry correlation identifiers through each call and persist processing outcomes.
- Separate validation failures, Flywire business errors, transient failures, and downstream failures.
Objective
Convert Flywire payloads into canonical and target-specific models while protecting financial accuracy.
Instructions in Martini
- Map Flywire identifiers, payer data, statuses, amounts, currencies, and timestamps explicitly.
- Validate required institution, payer, payment, and refund references.
- Preserve currency and monetary precision expected by Flywire and the target system.
Objective
Enforce idempotency, authorization, status-transition, and duplicate-submission rules before financial actions or updates.
Instructions in Martini
- Use stable payment or transaction references for duplicate detection.
- Require approval and authorization checks for refunds.
- Do not automatically retry uncertain payment-creation or refund outcomes unless the behavior is known to be safe.
Common Flywire data objects used in integrations
| Object | Typical Use | Common target systems | Martini handling |
|---|---|---|---|
| Payments | Represent payment requests, amounts, currencies, payer information, references, and payment status. | Ellucian Banner, Ellucian Colleague, Workday Student, Salesforce, NetSuite | Martini retrieves or receives payment information, validates monetary fields and references, maps statuses to a canonical model, and applies idempotent update rules. |
| Payers | Identify individuals or organizations making a payment and carry contact or reference information. | Student systems, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365, finance platforms | Martini maps payer identifiers and permitted contact fields while minimizing sensitive data in logs and applying target-specific validation. |
| Payment methods | Describe the method or channel used to complete a payment where exposed by the selected API. | Student systems, finance platforms, reporting stores | Martini preserves the method value and maps it to target classifications without assuming that every Flywire product exposes the same fields. |
| Transactions | Represent payment activity, settlement information, identifiers, and status changes. | NetSuite, Ellucian Banner, finance platforms, reconciliation stores | Martini retrieves transactions incrementally, preserves Flywire identifiers, compares amounts and currencies, and supports reconciliation workflows. |
| Refunds | Represent requests or records for money returned to a payer. | NetSuite, finance platforms, student systems | Martini validates approvals and payment references, prevents duplicate requests, invokes the enabled refund operation, and records pending, rejected, or completed outcomes. |
| Institutions or organizations | Identify the Flywire customer or receiving organization, such as a school, healthcare provider, travel company, or business. | Student administration, finance, CRM, reporting systems | Martini uses organization references in validation, routing, mapping, and reconciliation rules, subject to the fields exposed by the contracted API. |
Authentication and security considerations
Credentials and environment separation
Flywire API access uses account-specific credentials and permissions that vary by product and enabled operation. Confirm the credential scheme, scopes, payment and refund permissions, and webhook verification requirements with Flywire.
- Store credentials and webhook verification values in Martini secrets or protected environment configuration.
- Keep test and production credentials separate.
- Use HTTPS for all API requests.
- Do not place secrets in mappings, workflow source, source control, or logs.
Payment data protection
Payment workflows may process personal and financial information. Restrict access to logs, mask sensitive values, and define retention policies for request, response, and notification data.
Operational considerations for Flywire integrations
Reliability and reconciliation
- Confirm Flywire rate limits, timeout guidance, retry headers, and maintenance behavior.
- Handle pagination and continuation values for payment and transaction retrieval.
- Use high-water marks and overlap windows for scheduled synchronization.
- Make notification processing idempotent and account for duplicate, delayed, or out-of-order callbacks.
- Do not blindly retry uncertain payment-creation or refund outcomes.
Financial and schema controls
- Preserve currency codes and required monetary precision.
- Map status transitions explicitly, including pending, successful, failed, cancelled, and refunded outcomes.
- Compare identifiers, amounts, currencies, dates, fees, refunds, and settlement information during reconciliation.
- Version mappings and test representative payment, refund, error, and notification payloads when Flywire APIs change.
Why use Martini instead of scripts or point-to-point integrations?
Centralized integration logic
Martini provides a maintainable place to consume Flywire APIs, receive supported notifications, expose normalized APIs, and coordinate updates across institutional and finance applications.
- Reuse workflows for validation, mapping, status handling, reconciliation, and error processing.
- Keep credentials and environment-specific configuration outside integration logic.
- Apply consistent idempotency and retry policies to financially sensitive operations.
- Trace requests with correlation identifiers across Flywire and downstream systems.
- Adapt Flywire payloads once through canonical mappings instead of duplicating point-to-point transformations.
Frequently asked questions
Flywire is primarily integrated through its applicable REST APIs for payment initiation, payment lookup, status retrieval, transaction lookup, and refunds where enabled. Selected products also support payment-status notifications or callbacks. Reporting APIs, exports, or scheduled files must be confirmed for the contracted service.
Yes. Martini can consume Flywire REST APIs, expose an endpoint for supported payment notifications, orchestrate payment and refund workflows, map Flywire objects into institutional models, and update systems such as student administration, finance, CRM, and service platforms.
No. A dedicated Flywire connector is not required. Martini can integrate using Flywire’s confirmed REST APIs, supported notification mechanisms, account credentials, and any formally provided reporting or file endpoints.
Lonti does not charge an additional per-connector or per-vendor fee to integrate Flywire. The integration is subject to the provisioned capacity of the Martini environment. Separate costs may apply from Flywire, cloud infrastructure providers, or other third-party systems based on subscription, usage, and deployment model.
REST APIs should be the primary method unless Flywire confirms a product-specific alternative. Supported payment notifications can complement REST retrieval for timely processing, while reporting APIs, asynchronous exports, settlement reports, and scheduled files should be treated as configuration-dependent capabilities.
Selected Flywire products or events support payment-status notifications or outbound callbacks. Coverage should not be generalized to every Flywire object. Confirm event types, payload format, retry behavior, and signature or shared-secret verification, and retrieve authoritative payment state when necessary.
Use incremental retrieval with timestamps, a persisted high-water mark, and a bounded overlap window, or use notifications followed by authoritative Flywire retrieval. Store payment or transaction identifiers and notification-processing results so duplicate, delayed, or out-of-order messages do not create duplicate updates.
Yes. Martini can expose a REST API that validates institutional requests, keeps Flywire credentials out of front-end applications, invokes the applicable Flywire API, normalizes responses, and returns correlation identifiers and controlled error outcomes.
Related Martini documentation
Flywire APIs
Webhooks
Workflows
Build a reliable Flywire integration with Martini
Use Martini to connect Flywire payment APIs and supported notifications with student, finance, CRM, and service platforms through governed workflows, reusable APIs, secure configuration, and traceable data transformations.