Revolutionizing Know-Your-Customer Data Management: Basis Theory’s KYC Data Engine
We recently released a white paper detailing the many aspects of the “Know Your Customer” (KYC) program, and what it means for businesses that interact with customer...
June 2023 Product Changelog
Welcome back, everyone! Here are the notable changes for June. We're grateful to our customers for their ingenuity and creativity in finding new ways to keep their c...
How to Prevent Payment Gateway Fraud
What is Payment Gateway Fraud? Payment gateway fraud occurs when a card-not-present transaction is completed using invalid card details. Fraudsters may use stolen cr...
What are Cross-Border Payments? Everything you Need to Know
Transferring money across borders seamlessly has opened up a realm of possibilities for businesses and individuals alike. However, many may find that cross-border pa...
Why Should You Use Split Payments?
In the fast-paced world of B2B software, prompt and efficient payment processing is on every vendor’s wish list. Getting paid in a timely fashion is essential for ma...
What is a Full-Service PSP?
A payment service provider (PSP) is a necessary partner in the payments ecosystem, bridging the divide between the merchant, the card networks, and the buyer’s and s...
Payment Reconciliation: How it Works
Payment reconciliation is the process of matching and verifying the payments made by customers with the corresponding invoices and receipts. This process ensures tha...
Top Payment Statistics and Trends in 2023
As the payments industry continues to evolve, staying on top of the latest trends is crucial for payments professionals looking to make informed decisions and drive ...
How Longer CVC Storage Can Improve Your Payment Flows
As we hear feedback from customers about the creative ways they use their payments data we constantly look for ways to unlock more use cases. We've recently released...
How Loop Secures its Connected Finance Platform with Basis Theory
In the world of connected finance for Logistics, accuracy and security are paramount and Loop understands this all too well. Faced with challenges of invoice inaccur...
How Businesses Can Process EBT Payments
Electronic Benefits Transfer, or EBT, is a system that was created to allow recipients of federal support in the United States to make food purchases electronically....
5 Tips for Secure Online Payments: How Merchants Can Scale
Providing secure payment transactions is a shared responsibility, because so many entities are involved in an intricate chain of activities to complete a deal. Each ...
What is a Payment Aggregator?
A payment aggregator is a service provider that shares their merchant account with their customers, allowing them to start accepting payments quickly and easily. Ins...
Payment Risks and How to Reduce Them
It’s easy to imagine the scariest risks of all: having your system taken over and sold back to you by ransomware, say, or a criminal ring intentionally buying all yo...
How to Build Your Own Payment Gateway
Whether you're a merchant looking to cut down on payment service fees, a startup aiming to provide solutions to an underserved region, or an online business battling...
5 Ways to Use Payment Analytics & Insights to Grow Your Business
What are Payment Analytics? Payment analytics are actionable trends organizations can identify and use to tune and accelerate their business growth. In today’s numbe...
May 2023 Product Changelog
We've been working hard this spring to provide more control, flexibility, and security to improve your data management and user experience. Our latest updates includ...
Ansa Leverages Basis Theory’s Flexibility to Manage Payments Securely
For businesses that work with small transactions, the costs of taking credit cards can be expensive especially because of the fixed fees involved. Meanwhile, common ...
What to Look for in Secure Payment Systems
A secure payment system is one that protects customer and merchant data both in motion (during an active transaction) and at rest (when stored). There are a variety ...
Securely Transitioning Your Credit Card Data: Migrating Data to Basis Theory
Introduction When migrating credit card data from a payment service provider (PSP) to Basis Theory, you would extract all stored card data and personally identifiabl...
5 Ways Payment Automation Can Improve Your Workflows
What is Payment Automation? When we think about payment automation, the temptation is to think only about inbound payment - revenue, in other words. And, indeed, mak...
How to Accept Multiple Payment Methods Securely
In today’s payment landscape, the emergence of new technologies gives consumers more payment options than ever before. As a merchant, it’s vital to accept the forms ...
Payment Metrics Decoded: Harnessing the Power of Payment Data
Merchants have access to a wealth of data points to gauge the health and success of their business. From customer acquisition cost to profit margin, the array of ava...
How Matic Simplifies Insurance Quoting with Custom-Built APIs and Basis Theory
Matic Insurance is a technology-driven insurance marketplace that connects consumers with multiple carriers to provide them with personalized home and auto insurance...
April 2023 Changelog
One of the most exciting parts of working at Basis Theory is encountering the various unique scenarios and alternative use cases that our customers envision. While s...
Payment Gateway vs. Payment Processor: What's the Difference?
The terms “payment gateway” and “payment processor” are, at times, used interchangeably in payment vernacular. And while the two are interrelated, each serves a uniq...
4 Best Practices for Secure Online Payment Processing
Merchants who build any kind of payment system must manage payments securely for a range of reasons.
How to Migrate to a New Payment Processor Without Disrupting Business
Merchants often find themselves in the position of wanting, or needing to migrate to a new payment processor. This is normally either to take advantage of lower fees...
What You Should Know About PCI Violations
PCI-DSS is a detailed and complex security standard that any entity involved in credit card payments must adhere to. Broadly speaking, its purpose is to ensure that ...
The Key to E-commerce Profitability: Multi-processor Payment Routing
When a payment is ready to be processed, most merchants cannot simply send it to the card network - instead they must work with a Payment Service Provider (PSP). The...
What you should know about PCI-DSS automation
PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is an information security standard that must be adhered to by any organization whose involvement in the proce...
How to Collect Credit Cards Over the Phone Without Becoming PCI Compliant
Modern consumers often prefer to transact business digitally, but there are still times when they would rather speak to a live person. For many vendors this raises t...
March 2023 Product Changelog
We are thrilled to share some of the key updates we've made to our platform during the month of March.
Rethinking Corporate Risk Management: Evolution, Roles, and Best Practices
Clients that have experienced claims typically have a greater appreciation of how catastrophic and frustrating a claim can be without strong risk management partners...
Is Your Payment Provider Holding You Back?
Recently, I had the pleasure of joining Caleb Avery, CEO of Tilled, on a webinar to discuss the current state of payments and data ownership. Tilled is one of our am...
What is a Card Network Token?
A card network token is a string of random numbers that is used to retrieve the real Primary Account Number (PAN) from a token value, where it is securely stored to ...
Protecting PHI and All Your Most Sensitive Data
We frequently mention that security is in our DNA, and we mean it.
Test Credit and Debit Card Numbers: Frequently Asked Questions
Why test credit and debit card transactions? When you build a payment transaction system, it’s important to ensure that it is working properly.
How Modern Life Protects PII with the Flexibility of Basis Theory
The team at Modern Life has created a tech-enabled insurance brokerage that gives advisers tools and expert advice to serve their clients. The CTO, Jack Arenas, want...
What is payment network tokenization?
Payment network tokenization is a process of replacing sensitive payment information, such as a credit card number, with a unique identifier or token that can be use...
Upcoming Changes in PCI DSS 4.0: What SaaS Platforms Need to Know
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is the global standard for ensuring the secure handling of credit card data. It’s designed to protect card...
Reveal: Unlock Unmistakable User Experiences with Sensitive Data
We launched Basis Theory Elements late last year to provide developers and designers a fast, dynamic, and secure option to seamlessly collect information from within...
February 2023 Changelog
After the numerous improvements the team released in January, we spent February heads down on a few initiatives to make progress toward developing a more complete pl...
Webinar: Simplify PCI compliance with Basis Theory & Secureframe
In this Secureframe webinar, we discuss how tokenization and automation can eliminate 95% of the time and effort involved with PCI compliance.
What is a Third-Party Tokenization Service Provider?
In short, a third-party tokenization service provider provides services for creating, storing, and managing tokens to improve data security.
Payments Optimization: An Overview
At its core, payments optimization focuses on streamlining the way businesses accept, process and manage payments to improve customer experience and cut costs. It st...
An Introduction to Token Vaults
Today’s digital landscape can be hazardous for online vendors seeking to provide simple, yet fully secure, payments. Perhaps the trickiest element of securing online...
What to do if your PSP Shuts Down Your Account
Payment service providers (PSPs) play a critical role in ensuring smooth and secure payment processing for a variety of merchants but they can pose a significant ris...
What are Encryption and Tokenization?
Encryption and tokenization are complementary strategic tools used by systems that need to protect sensitive information, especially in the realm of secure payments ...
Passes Journeyed From Payment Provider Nightmare to Payments Optionality with Basis Theory
Patrick Zhang, the tech lead at Passes, found himself scrambling at two in the morning to integrate a new payment service provider (PSP) after the one they were usin...