generated: '2026-09-09'
method: searched
source: >-
  Live probes 2026-09-09 plus First Data's own published SDKs and the Fiserv
  developer-portal sitemap.
status: legacy-retiring
summary: >-
  Every First Data-branded developer surface is in wind-down. The First Data
  Gateway (IPG) survives on the Fiserv portal as the IPGNA product; Payeezy does
  not appear in the portal sitemap at all; the developer hosts, the status page and
  the SDK release stream are all decommissioned or frozen.
versioning:
  scheme: uri-path
  current: v2
  api_version: 21.5.0
  base_urls:
    production: https://prod.api.firstdata.com/gateway/v2
    certification: https://cert.api.firstdata.com/gateway/v2
  source: https://github.com/GBSEcom/Python
  policy_url: null
  policy_note: No published version-support or breaking-change policy was found on any reachable host.
deprecation:
  policy_url: null
  sunset_header: unknown
  gateway_deprecation:
    statement: First Data and Payeezy gateways will be deprecated at the end of Q3 2025, as mandated by Fiserv.
    effective: '2025-09-30'
    successor: Fiserv Commerce Hub
    source: https://docs.recurly.com/recurly-subscriptions/docs/commerce-hub
    source_type: third-party
    source_note: >-
      Recorded from a payments platform's integration documentation attributing the
      mandate to Fiserv. Fiserv's own migration guides exist on
      developer.fiserv.com under
      /product/CommerceHub/docs/?path=docs/Resources/Guides/Payeezy/ but that portal
      renders client-side and returns an identical 6,217-byte SPA shell for every
      path, so no first-party dated statement could be read directly. The date is
      therefore recorded as third-party attribution, not as a first-party claim.
  migration_guides:
    - https://developer.fiserv.com/product/CommerceHub/docs/?path=docs/Resources/Guides/Payeezy/Payeezy-UpgradetoCH-TechnicalAPI.md
    - https://developer.fiserv.com/product/CommerceHub/docs/?path=docs/Resources/Guides/Payeezy/Payeezy-UpgradetoCH-FeaturesTokens.md
    - https://developer.fiserv.com/product/CommerceHub/docs/?path=docs/Resources/Guides/Payeezy/Payeezy-UpgradetoCH-Features3DS.md
    - https://developer.fiserv.com/product/CommerceHub/docs/?path=docs/Resources/Guides/Payeezy/Payeezy-CHEmulation.md
    - https://developer.fiserv.com/product/CommerceHub/docs/?path=docs/Resources/Guides/Payeezy/Payeezy-UpgradetoCH-FAQs.md
status_page:
  url: null
  former_url: https://status.firstdata.com
  state: decommissioned
  evidence:
    - url: https://status.firstdata.com
      status: 200
      resolves_to: https://firstdata.statuspage.io/inactive
      note: >-
        First Data's Statuspage still resolves but has been marked inactive by
        Atlassian, so the host answers 200 with an "inactive page" notice rather
        than component status. No StatusPage pointer is emitted — the page exists
        but publishes no status.
    - url: https://fiserv.statuspage.io
      status: 200
      resolves_to: https://fiserv.statuspage.io/inactive
    - url: https://status.fiserv.com
      status: 0
      note: does not resolve
sla:
  url: null
  note: No public SLA. Availability commitments sit inside the merchant services agreement.
retired_hosts:
  - host: docs.firstdata.com
    state: nxdomain
    checked: '2026-09-09'
    note: >-
      Still declared as the home page of the live PyPI and RubyGems packages
      (first-data-gateway / first_data_gateway), which therefore ship a dead
      documentation link to every installer.
  - host: developer.payeezy.com
    state: unreachable
    checked: '2026-09-09'
    note: Connection failure; still cited as the homepage of the rubygems `payeezy` gem.
  - host: docs.payeezy.com
    state: unreachable
    checked: '2026-09-09'
  - host: developer.firstdata.com
    state: 503
    checked: '2026-09-09'
    note: >-
      Resolves to a Volterra/F5 edge that answers 503 "P - unknown path!" for every
      path — a routed hostname with no backend behind it.
  - host: firstdata.com
    state: 301
    checked: '2026-09-09'
    note: 301 to https://merchants.fiserv.com/ for every path, behind a Radware bot manager.
  - host: globalgatewaye4.firstdata.com
    state: 520
    checked: '2026-09-09'
live_hosts:
  - host: prod.api.firstdata.com
    state: live
    note: First Data Gateway production. Root returns 404; /v1/* returns a JSON 400 envelope.
  - host: cert.api.firstdata.com
    state: live
    note: First Data Gateway certification/sandbox.
  - host: api.payeezy.com
    state: live
    note: 403 at root; the Payeezy transaction host is still answering.
  - host: api-cert.payeezy.com
    state: live
  - host: api.globalgatewaye4.firstdata.com
    state: live
    note: 401 with a gateway error envelope on every path — alive and credential-gated.
sdk_lifecycle:
  last_release: '2021-11-19'
  note: >-
    All six first-party First Data Gateway SDKs (Maven, npm, PyPI, RubyGems, NuGet,
    Packagist) were last published on 2021-11-18/19. No release in the four years
    since. See packages/first-data-packages.yml.
product_status:
  - product: IPGNA (Internet Payment Gateway, North America)
    portal: https://developer.fiserv.com/product/IPGNA
    listed_in_sitemap: true
    note: The First Data Gateway's surviving home on the Fiserv developer portal.
  - product: FirstVision (APAC / EMEA / LATAM)
    portal: https://developer.fiserv.com/product/FirstVisionAPAC
    listed_in_sitemap: true
    note: Legacy First Data card-issuing platform, still carried as three regional products.
  - product: Payeezy
    portal: https://developer.fiserv.com/product/Payeezy
    listed_in_sitemap: false
    note: >-
      Absent from https://developer.fiserv.com/sitemap.xml (checked 2026-09-09).
      The URL returns 200 only because the portal is a single-page app that answers
      every path with the same shell. Treated as retired.
deprecated_operations: []