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Bastion Pay

Payment rails with a dashboard ops teams open

Bastion Pay moves money between marketplaces, sellers and banks. Tensile built its operations dashboard and the design system behind it, on top of an API that processes millions of payouts a month.

Industry
Payments
Services
Engineering, Design system
Year
2025
Timeline
20 weeks
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Challenge

Bastion's ops team worked in raw database views. Every failed payout meant a ticket to engineering, and engineers spent a day a week on lookups.

Approach

We mapped the twelve questions ops asked most often and built a screen for each, on a design system with strict rules for money: one way to show an amount, one way to show a status, one way to show who did what and when.

Outcome

Payout lookups no longer reach engineering. The design system now powers the customer dashboard too, and new screens take days instead of weeks.

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Results

  • 0

    payout lookups sent to engineering

  • 12

    ops questions, one screen each

  • 20 weeks

    from kickoff to the second dashboard

“Our ops team stopped filing tickets with engineering the week the dashboard went live. That alone paid for the project.”

Portrait of Marcus Lindqvist, CTO of Bastion Pay

Marcus Lindqvist

CTO, Bastion Pay

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