Adding new payment method to offsite extension

Extensions
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Hi everyone. I represent a BNPL company, and i would like to add a new payment method as we have many merchants using Shopify.

I am a Shopify Partner with signed revenue share agreement.

I tried contacting support via chat, but got controversial replies from both regarding adding a new method.
They kept insisting that i need to submit my app for review, but kept ignoring the fact that i cannot deploy an extension with unsupported method, and it made no sense to deploy it with the one that doesn’t match the whole point of extension.

After long discussions, they stated that Shopify currently doesn’t accept applications for new payment methods (which isn’t anywhere in the docs), so i came here to find out for certain.

TLDR: Is it possible to add a new payment method for offsite payment extension (to the ones listed here)?.

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Hi @Janju_Pelegrino

If you’re looking to create a payment extension and use the Payment API, you’ll need an invite from the Payments team, who can enable this on your account. See the docs here: https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/build/payments/payments-extension-review

Our payments platform is available by invitation only while we continue to build out our Payments Apps API. Shopify will open the payments platform to new applications in the future.

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Hi Liam.
Thank you for your reply.
I’m not sure about the Payment API usage, as basically what i need to do is redirect customers to our self-hosted web form, where they would fill they data and apply for a loan. Can you please confirm if that requires Payment API usage? I guess for sending order data back to Shopify, correct?

And can you please tell me if there’s any workaround or the only way is to wait for Payment API to become public?

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Hi again @Janju_Pelegrino

Would your approach mean that transactions would be processed outside of the Shopify native checkout?

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Yes, that was the idea. A customer gets redirected to our form and we would process the transaction.
We also may consider another way if any, in case it is possible to implement considering Payment API is currently invite-only.