Sports Prop Tech Integration Architecture

Architecture principle: integrations should extend the operating layer. They should not create a second version of customer, account, payment, or challenge state.

Define system ownership first

Domain	Required ownership decision
Customer and account	Which platform owns identity, lifecycle state, support context, and permissions?
Payments	Which system owns transaction status, entitlements, refunds, and reconciliation?
Sports data	How are event identifiers, settlement, corrections, and provider outages handled?
Communications	Which events trigger messages, and where is delivery or failure recorded?
Analytics	Which definitions govern activation, qualification, retention, and payout metrics?

Use event-driven state changes with idempotency

Each external event should have a stable identifier, timestamp, source, expected state transition, and replay policy. Repeated webhooks must not create duplicate accounts, entitlements, notifications, commissions, or payouts.

Design for failure, not just connection

Record authentication failures, rejected payloads, timeouts, and provider errors.
Expose retry and manual-review queues to the appropriate operator role.
Reconcile critical records such as payments, challenge results, and payouts.
Separate provider availability from the customer-facing account state.

Protect the audit trail

Operators should be able to answer what changed, which service initiated the change, what rule applied, whether a retry occurred, and who approved any manual correction.

Integration acceptance checklist

Happy path and duplicate event.
Delayed event and out-of-order event.
Provider timeout and invalid credentials.
Manual correction with recorded reason.
Reconciliation and export.

See the core sports prop tech layer this architecture supports. The sports prediction infrastructure guide covers the broader platform, while the implementation proof guide helps assign responsibilities.

Sports prop tech integration architecture