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Challenges When Migrating PSPs to Improve Authorization Rates
Upon completing the migration to a new payment service provider (PSP), payment professionals often let out a sigh of relief. Six months (or longer) of payment proces...
How Hosted Payment Pages Work
When planning to accept payments, integrating and going live quickly can ensure a smooth and swift road to generating revenue. Hosted payment pages can offer merchan...
2024 in Review: Our 4 Areas of Focus
As we rolled into 2024, we focused on 4 key components of our product: speed and performance, 3DS, Account Updater, and managed connections. Here’s how that went.
December 2024 Changelog
December rounded out a productive and successful 2024 for the Basis Theory Platform. Here’s what we released in the last month of the year.
Top Payment Professionals to Follow in 2025
Whatever route you traveled to get into payments, we’re glad you made it here! We’ve curated a list of influencers in the payments industry that speak at events, pub...
November 2024 Changelog
3DS Mobile Now Available In February, we shared the announcement that we now support 3DS transactions for Enterprise customers.
October 2024 Changelog
The last quarter of the year got off to a great start with the release of Token Intents and Bank Verification enrichment. Read on for more information. Token Intents...
September 2024 Changelog
Token Create Speed Improvements We’ve significantly improved our tokens' speed for both Token Creations and Reads over the last few months—and customers should have ...
August 2024 Changelog
As summer months come to a close and we move into the Autumn months, we have a few helpful updates.
Summer 2024 Changelog
Summer Changelog In June and July, the team worked on many updates and enhancements to the Basis Theory Platform, from identity access updates, to webhook subscripti...
Why I Joined Basis Theory as CISO
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What the Visa Stop Payment Service Does for Merchants
A key way in which merchants—especially those with subscription services—build their revenue is by using stored credit cardholder data to submit follow-on transactio...
Tokenization Offers Great Benefits: Be Aware of These 5 Pitfalls
Merchants are always on the lookout for ways to improve their security, while keeping as much friction as possible out of their purchase processes. Some of the optio...
How Connected Payments Reduce Merchant Risk
Any electronic payment comes with inherent risk: the customer might be using a fraudulent card, forgotten they’ve overspent their credit limit, or end up firing up a...
Enhancing Reliability and Security for Your Tenants
If you are a Basis Theory platform user, action is most likely required for your Production Tenant. What has Changed? We have updated our Rate Limits to better align...
May 2024 Changelog
Managed Connections: Orchestrating Payments We are happy to announce the launch of Managed Connections, which allows merchants to switch between payment processors t...
How to Use Composable Apps in Payments
Software can be designed and implemented in any number of ways, but a core architectural approach can be instrumental in producing tools that are ideally suited to t...
SoftPOS: Turning Devices Into Terminals
The speed at which payments options expand and change has reached a breakneck pace: it’s almost impossible to imagine a time when the only options were to provide co...
Dynamic Payment Routing - Retry Logic Routes
Dynamic payment routing is an essential part of any comprehensive payment optimization strategy: getting the highest close rate at the lowest processing cost demands...
Implementing a Second Payment Processor: Considerations
Delivering great service is at the heart of every successful merchant’s business plan - because happy customers become repeat customers, and repeat customers become ...
April 2024 Changelog
April brought showers of updates and enhancements to the Basis Theory Platform, from automatic account updater, to full-featured test tenants, and forwarding APIs.
Multi-Processor Routing and Fraud Prevention
Payment security is a key consideration for today’s digital merchants, as acquiring a reputation for not protecting customers’ payment details can be an existential ...
Multi-Processor Routing or Full-Service PSP? Which is Your Best Option?
As a merchant, accepting and processing payments is the lifeblood of your business. The ways in which you do so can significantly impact the future trajectory of you...
Evaluating the ROI of Multi-processor Payment Routing for Subscription Businesses
Digital payments have thrown open the ability to market and sell to an almost unlimited global audience for merchants. And those businesses who offer subscriptions c...
Subscription Merchants: Payments Best Practices
What are Subscription Companies? Subscription merchants are companies with a business model that involves customers paying a recurring fee to access products or serv...
3DS Authentication: The Right Balance Between Security and UX
In a world that seems ever more risky - with digital scam artists everywhere you look, and ransomware in seemingly every other news report - making security as impen...
Tokenization and PCI Compliance: FAQs
The data security rules around payments can be puzzling to new and seasoned payments professionals alike. Moreover, while the Payments Card Industry Data Security St...
One-Click Checkout: Benefits and Drawbacks
If there’s one thing that everyone who’s ever sold anything can agree on it’s this: the harder it is for the customer to close a deal, the less likely it is that the...
Best Payments Resources To Deepen Your Payments Knowledge
As the payments industry continues to grow, expand, and evolve, payments professionals will need to stay abreast of the changes in order to remain competitive in the...
The Importance of Recurring Payments for Merchants
Modern businesses do more than simply make one-off sales of products - they take advantage of the opportunities our digital reality offers. Perhaps the inspiration f...