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Dynamic Payment Routing - Retry Logic Routes

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Basis Theory
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989
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English
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Summary

Dynamic payment routing helps merchants improve transaction approval rates, reduce processing costs, and protect against payment service provider outages by directing transactions among multiple PSPs rather than relying on a single provider. Routing decisions can consider provider availability, customer location, transaction currency, payment method, transaction size, historical close rates, and risk profile, allowing merchants to select the provider most likely to process a payment efficiently and successfully. These factors can be combined in sequential or more complex decision trees that prioritize conditions such as local processing, high approval likelihood, and low fees, though greater sophistication also increases maintenance requirements. As payment volumes grow, merchants may need flexible access to customer payment data and a secure, programmable payment vault to avoid dependence on an initial PSP and enable transactions to be sent to alternative providers without expanding PCI-DSS scope.

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