China market strategy active · Payment Provider Packs in development · Design partners recruiting

Secure event delivery for China-connected businesses

Receive critical payment and platform callbacks through a stable public endpoint, process them in a regional Traffic Plane, and deliver them to public or private systems without centralizing payloads in the SaaS control plane.

The China Market Challenge

Payment providers in China require reliable, fast callback delivery into regional or private network systems. Direct connections often fail behind NAT, firewalls, or without proper routing configuration.

Firewall headless

Most Chinese providers require inbound connections or specific firewall rules that are difficult to maintain.

Regulatory restrictions

Data localization and cross-border requirements complicate direct connections.

Provider-specific requirements

Each payment provider has unique technical requirements and integration patterns.

Limited public ingress

Few options for reliable inbound connections from Chinese payment providers.

Payment Callback Wedge

Zen Mesh provides a stable public callback endpoint that receives webhooks from Chinese payment providers (Antom/Alipay, WeChat Pay, UnionPay) and delivers them to your regional or private systems without requiring inbound firewall changes.

1

Receive webhook

Public endpoint receives provider notification

2

Local processing

Validate, verify, and transform in regional Traffic Plane

3

Deliver privately

Route to your internal services without inbound ports

Payload Locality: Hard Architectural Commitment

Customer event payloads are received, verified, transformed, routed, retried, and delivered inside the regional or customer-owned Traffic Plane where they enter Zen Mesh. The Zen Mesh control plane does not proxy, replicate, or retain those payloads. A payload crosses a regional boundary only when the customer explicitly configures a destination across that boundary.

Bounded operational metadata may reach the Control Plane: resource identifiers, policy versions, cryptographic digests, health, delivery outcomes, audit receipts, evidence metadata.

Regional Architecture

Canadian control plane receives metadata only and governs delivery policies. Regional China-market Traffic Plane processes payloads locally. Hong Kong and mainland AWS China options are under evaluation for account and ingress feasibility.

Control Plane

Canadian-based

  • Receives only metadata
  • Governs delivery policies
  • Manages resource allocation
  • Delivers evidence and audit logs

Traffic Plane

Regional China-market

  • Receives customer payloads
  • Processes locally
  • Validates and transforms
  • Delivers to destinations
Regional deployment proof: NOT YET PRODUCTION-LIVE

Provider Roadmap

Antom / Alipay

OFFICIAL DRAFT PLANNED
  • Asynchronous payment notifications
  • Signature verification
  • Acknowledgement
  • Retries and duplicate handling
  • Active inquiry/reconciliation
  • Private or regional delivery
View Alipay Documentation →

WeChat Pay

OFFICIAL DRAFT PLANNED
  • Payment-success callbacks
  • Signature and encryption requirements
  • HTTPS endpoint posture
  • Firewall/IP considerations
  • Retries and duplicate notifications
  • Idempotent processing
View WeChat Pay Documentation →

UnionPay

PLANNED
  • Backend notification URL
  • Asynchronous transaction results
  • Signature verification
  • Response deadline handling
  • Retry behavior
  • Reconciliation support
View UnionPay Documentation →

Secondary Candidates (Research Only)

  • Feishu (Research)
  • DingTalk (Research)
  • WeCom (Research)
  • Chinese commerce platforms (Research)

Private and Public Delivery Targets

Deliver to public HTTP endpoints without deploying infrastructure, or deploy Edge Lite or Kubernetes Edge Plane for private targets behind NAT/firewall. Outbound-only — no inbound ports required.

Public HTTP endpoints

No deployment required — just configure your endpoint URL

Edge Lite Docker runtime

Deploy to any Docker-compatible host for private targets

Kubernetes Edge Plane

Deploy as a Kubernetes deployment for private networks

Security and Evidence Posture

Regional Traffic Plane ensures payload locality. Control plane processes only metadata. Provider Pack templates provide structured defaults for verification, event classification, and operational visibility.

Design Partner Recruitment

Building with Antom/Alipay, WeChat Pay, or UnionPay? Zen Mesh is recruiting design partners that need reliable callback delivery into regional, Kubernetes, or private-network systems. Design partners help validate provider requirements, operational workflows, and regional deployment needs.

Apply as a Design Partner

Current Maturity and Non-Claims

active China market strategy
in development Provider Packs
architectural commitment Payload locality
planned Canadian control-plane
planned Regional Traffic Plane
under evaluation Hong Kong Traffic Plane
blocked Mainland China Traffic Plane
not produced-live Regional deployed proof

Explicit Non-Claims

  • Chinese Provider Packs are not generally available yet

    Development in progress, not GA

  • Zen Mesh is not claiming AWS program acceptance

    No mention of AWS in any capacity

  • Zen Mesh is not claiming AWS partnership

    No partnership language anywhere

  • Mainland China hosting is not yet production-live

    Account feasibility review only

  • ICP recordal is not complete unless separately proven

    Not addressed, not claimed

  • Chinese regulatory compliance is not claimed

    Explicitly not claimed

  • Payload-locality production enforcement is scoped by current evidence

    Architectural commitment, not production evidence

  • Provider sandbox fixtures are not provider production validation

    Sandbox testing, not production validation

  • No guaranteed or exactly-once delivery claim

    Standard retry/recovery, not exact-once guarantee