How Load Balancing Works
Load balancing distributes payment request traffic from a merchant across payment providers. This method prevents any single provider from being overwhelmed. It also ensures that transactions are processed efficiently. Among the functions is intelligent routing, based on vendor performance, geographic location, or transaction type. Common use cases of load balancing include e-commerce, fintech, travel, gaming, and marketplaces.
Akurateco balances payment traffic by routing each transaction to the best-fit PSP/acquirer based on rules like country, BIN, payment method, performance, and provider availability. If the primary route fails or returns a recoverable decline, cascading automatically retries through a fallback provider according to pre-set logic. This keeps payments stable and secure while improving uptime, latency, and overall approval performance.
Why Load Balancing Matters for Your Business
Load balancing improves transaction success rates and reduces latency. This ensures that customers experience seamless payments. It guarantees redundancy and resilience. As a result, failures at one provider don’t disrupt your system or access to services.
Most modern businesses don’t build these routing rules themselves. Usually, they use payment orchestration. It sits between the merchant’s website and multiple PSPs.
Akurateco’s cloud-based payment orchestration platform offers a sophisticated payment management system. It features over 600+ connectors, multi-currency processing, and various payment options. The solution provides encrypted transactions, built-in analytics, white-label capabilities, and customizable routing, available through a single API.
Wrapping Up / Final Note
Load balancing ensures that payment traffic is distributed efficiently. This approach helps maintain secure, reliable, and high-performance processing for all transactions.
Akurateco’s payment orchestration solution offers easy integrations, scalable infrastructure, flexible pricing, advanced security, and management tools for every project without building anything from scratch.
- Add payment methods instantly without developing new integrations.
- Benefit from built-in fraud protection, smart transaction routing, and reconciliation capabilities.
- Avoid regulatory burdens, as the main gateway will take care of compliance.
