How Smart Failover Management Works
Transactions can fail for multiple reasons, including soft declines, network timeouts, PSP outages, and inconsistent status codes. When this happens, the failover engine activates automatically, evaluates the predefined routing rules, and retries the transaction through the most promising backup channels to restore continuity. Typical use cases of smart failover management include ecommerce checkouts, iGaming payments, recurring billing, and digital services requiring ongoing reliability.
Akurateco offers a built-in smart routing engine that identifies backup options and sends transactions to payment providers most likely to approve them. If one payment provider declines a payment, a cascading technology redirects it to another for successful completion. As a result, failover simply operates in the background with minimal effort from developers.
Why Smart Failover Management Matters for Your Business
Even brief provider downtime can cause conversion drops and customer churn. Smart failover management is a core resilience capability that safeguards revenue when PSPs, networks, or issuers become unstable. By automatically redirecting failed transactions through the most robust available routes, it protects approvals, customer experience, and operational continuity. This is especially important for scaling businesses.
Akurateco’s white-label solutions support automated failover management functions by offering smart routing, cascading, integrations with over 600 PSPs, customizable rules to adapt to local preferences, strong security and performance monitoring, transparent pricing, and long-term support through a single API. This ensures business resilience, improved approvals, and optimized operational cost efficiency.
Wrapping Up / Final Notes
Smart failover management protects revenue by ensuring transaction retries succeed across multiple routes. With white-label flexibility and enterprise-grade routing and cascading capabilities, Akurateco helps businesses build a scalable payment platform without complexity and access a reliable redundancy without added complexity.
- 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.
