Sequence diagram

Messages between actors over time, with returns, async calls and branches.

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Card payment sequence

A checkout request passing through the web app, the payments API and the bank, with a declined branch.

Time flows down the lifelines. Solid arrows are calls, dashed arrows are returns, and the alt frame holds both outcomes of the authorisation. The accent sits on one message only: the successful 201.

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