Payment Gateway vs. Payment Orchestration: What’s the Difference?
Boost your payment acceptance rate with this tactical checklist. From descriptor optimization to retry logic, implement proven strategies that reduce legitimate declines.
Erynn Ortanez
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3D Secure 2.0: Why It Helps Acceptance (And When It Hurts)
3D Secure authentication can reduce fraud and chargebacks, but it also impacts conversion. Learn when to apply it, when to skip it, and how to optimize for acceptance.
12 Effective Ways on How to Prevent Disputes on Stripe
Stripe merchants face unique dispute challenges. Use Stripe Radar, billing descriptors, and platform-specific tools to prevent chargebacks before customers file them.
Issuer Relationship Signals: How Banks Decide To Approve Your Payments
Credit card issuers track merchant behavior through hidden signals. Understand what banks monitor and how to build trust that leads to fewer declines.
Backup Payment Processor Strategy: When & How To Set One Up
A backup payment processor can save your business during shutdowns. Learn which merchants need redundancy, how to structure backup relationships, and more.
Payment Processor Monitoring: 7 Early Warning Signs You're At Risk
Payment processors shut down accounts with little warning. Learn the volume spikes, chargeback patterns, and risk signals that trigger reviews before it’s too late.
Chargeback Alerts vs. Prevention: Which Protection Strategy Saves More Money?
Chargeback alerts cost $20-40 per alert but prevent disputes. Compare alert services to prevention tactics and build the right protection stack for your business.
Network Tokenization Vs. Card-On-File: Which Boosts Acceptance More?
Network tokens from Visa and Mastercard can increase payment acceptance 2-4%. Compare tokenization approaches and decide which fits your payment stack.
The Real Cost of Payment Declines: Calculate What You’re Losing Monthly
Payment declines cost more than lost sales. Use our framework to calculate revenue loss, customer churn, and support costs from declined payments in your business.
Payment Routing Strategies That Actually Increase Approval Rates
Payment declines cost more than lost sales. Use our framework to calculate revenue loss, customer churn, and support costs from declined payments in your business.
Payment Retry Logic: When And How To Retry Failed Payments
Retrying failed payments can recover revenue, but bad retry logic annoys customers. Learn best practices for timing, frequency, and communication.
Payday-Aligned Retries: Recover More NSF Declines
Timing payment retries around customer paydays dramatically improves recovery rates for insufficient funds declines. Here’s how to implement it.
