Boost revenue with higher authorization rates
The world’s leading ecommerce, SaaS, and marketplace brands use Stripe to optimize payments, reduce churn, and improve network acceptance rates—generating billions of dollars in incremental revenue each year.
Grow revenue end to end
Accept more transactions and reduce declines with a suite of optimizations informed by trillions of data points.
Retain high LTV customers
Keep card information up-to-date automatically to avoid involuntary churn and checkout friction, and retry failed transactions at the optimal time.
Fight fraud and boost auth rates
See an up to 8% reduction in fraud and a 1%–2% authorization rate uplift on eligible volume with Stripe’s Enhanced Issuer Network.
Work with payments experts
Reach your goals with integration advice, workshops, data analysis, and tailored recommendations for large businesses to optimize your payments.
Smart routing and revenue recovery
Set up each payment for success
Prevent lost revenue with real-time retries and optimized network messaging, which use the preferred formatting for issuing banks.
Adaptive Acceptance
- Uses machine learning to optimize authorization requests for issuers
- Identifies optimized retry messaging and routing combinations to recover 10% of false declines, amounting to billions of dollars globally
Smart Retries
- Reduces declines for recurring charges by up to 30% using smart dunning
- Addresses insufficient funds declines by identifying the optimal day and time to retry a payment
Issuer and network partnerships
Tap into the industry’s richest data to improve performance
Stripe has direct connections to card networks to ensure our data is as rich as possible. Our industry-first Enhanced Issuer Network enables card issuers to make more informed decisions about whether to authorize transactions.
Enhanced Issuer Network
- Comprises a growing number of major US and European issuers, including Capital One and Discover
- Provides issuers with secure access to transaction fraud scores from Stripe Radar
- Helps businesses achieve an up to 8% reduction in fraud and a 1%–2% authorization rate uplift on eligible volume
Direct platform
- Connects to Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express, and local networks through a single integration
- Reduces latency and improves reliability with Stripe’s direct integrations with global card networks and issuers
Life-cycle management
Prevent churn with up-to-date payment information
Mitigate involuntary churn with features that keep customers’ payment information up-to-date, even if a card has been replaced since their last interaction.
Network tokens
Stripe supports network tokens for Visa, Mastercard, and American Express volume. Our machine learning–powered optimization determines when to use a network token versus primary account number to improve acceptance rates. Businesses can use Stripe to provision tokens or bring external tokens for processing.
Card account updater
Card account updater accesses updated card information in real time to prevent payment failures. Stripe supports card account updater on Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover volume, including cross-brand updates.
Optimized authentication
Protect your checkout experience
Strike the right balance between conversion, cost, and fraud mitigation with Stripe’s machine learning–based authentication. Our SCA optimization engine and delegated authentication solution help you meet SCA requirements while reducing checkout friction for your customers.
Authentication engine
Maximize conversion by automatically requesting available SCA exemptions. This reduces checkout interruptions, while optimizing costs, with machine learning–powered authentication routing.
Advanced services
Import 3D Secure authentication results from external providers for authorization, or authenticate with Stripe and submit authorization later. You can also improve conversion and lower fraud through data-only flows using EMV 3D Secure standard.
Delegated authentication
Use biometrics to authenticate users faster and with higher conversion rates than traditional 3D Secure while still reducing fraud. Delegated authentication is expanding soon to more issuers.
Read the full storySince moving over to Stripe, our payment processing approval rates have picked up by 6% in a very, very short period of time, which is a huge win on improving our conversion rates with customers and our reputation with issuers.
Read the full storyOver the first 12 months of our partnership with Stripe, we will capture millions more value in sales than we previously would have.
Read the full storyStripe has a relentless focus on innovation. A great example of this is the machine learning model used to enhance authorization rates.
Read the full storyWe have fewer declined transactions and consequently lower churn rates resulting from our payment processor.
Rich insights
Understand drivers of authorization rates
Use the Acceptance report in the Stripe Dashboard to visualize and monitor payments performance, understand incremental value and ROI of payments optimizations, and detect anomalies.
Part of your team
Refine your payments performance with expert input
Our team comprises veterans of financial networks, consultancies, leading brands, and industry groups. We offer advice on changing regulations, integration best practices, and engineering assistance to future-proof your integration and boost conversion. Consider Stripe your advocate for concerns related to card networks and other financial partners.
Learn more about optimizing authorization rates
Familiarize yourself with how to manage authorization rates and learn how to reduce the number of legitimate payments that fail.
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