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Payment Optimization

Improve payment outcomes, reduce cost and provide a frictionless
experience for your customers.

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Grow revenue, improve economics and protect your brand

Leverage proven technology, combined with industry partnerships and unique data intelligence, to maximize approval rates, reduce declines and fraud, lower debit costs and improve the customer experience. 

We can help your business implement an effective payment optimization strategy to move ahead of your competition in the marketplace.

Increase payment approval rates by utilizing adaptive, rules-based logic combined with card brand and issuer partnerships.

 

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Minimize recurring payments declines due to out-of-date account data, plus card data maintenance costs.

 

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Lower debit transaction costs and accept  payments through virtually all channels, devices and CVMs.

 

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Help reduce fraud and create seamless, frictionless payment experiences with a single integration point for all four card networks.

 

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Accelerate approvals and sales conversion

We can help your online or card-on-file business increase revenue and reduce passive churn. By combining machine learning and partnerships with card brands and issuing banks, we drive some of the highest approval rates in the industry.

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Increase authorization approval rates

Identify trends and transaction patterns with data science. Recoup and prevent declines with our best-in-class AI. 

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Minimize declines & churn

Update credential-on-file and recurring or subscription payment information in real time.

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Reduce fraud loss, maximize acceptance

Help ensure payments and customers receive the best protection available with enhanced security and reduced fraud. Increased security provides a better checkout experience with less friction, and shifts chargeback liability away from merchants.


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Realize more debit routing choice and savings

Lower the cost of acceptance, increase revenue and enhance customer loyalty with secure debit transactions for in-store, online and mobile payments – across all U.S. networks.

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Greater choice and economics

Pay less based on the networks available to maximize savings.

Actionable Data and Insights

Track transaction performance and trends with real-time reporting and analytics.

Intelligent, Managed Routing

We reduce complexity and eliminate the need for you to be a debit expert.

Optimization fuels our clients’ success

7%

increase in approval rates1

15%

reduction in declines1

25%

reduction in fraud1

20 BPS

lower debit costs1

Proven results in action

  • Optimize subscription billing approvals
  • Reduce payment declines and cart abandonment
 

3%

approval rate uplift

8%

decline recovery


We helped optimize subscription billing authorization rates for the gaming and software segments of a global eCommerce company.

 

Source: Carat and client-provided data; individual results may vary





 

2%

approval rate uplift

15+%

decline recovery


We helped reduce cart abandonment and increase customer satisfaction for a tech-driven online retailer.

 

Source: Carat and client-provided data; individual results may vary 





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