Boost revenue with higher authorisation rates

Increase acceptance rates by 2.2% on average with Authorisation Boost, which combines Stripe's AI-powered acceptance optimisations into one product. Businesses on custom interchange pricing can also lower card processing costs by up to 2.8%.

Increase authorisation rates with AI

Recover false declines with real-time retries and maximise acceptance using issuer-optimised preferences.

Lower card processing costs

Reduce costs with network tokens and AI-powered optimisations, such as decline prevention and excessive retry prevention.

Reduce customer churn

Automatically keep card information up-to-date, even if a card has been replaced, and retry false declines to mitigate involuntary churn.

Manage performance from the Dashboard

Get a comprehensive view of your payments performance, including insights and recommendations.

Core technology

Powered by the industry's first Payments Foundation Model

Trained on billions of transactions, Stripe's Payments Foundation Model uses self-supervised learning to improve the performance of products such as Authorisation Boost by capturing and analysing hundreds of subtle signals about each payment.

AI-powered

Increase authorisation rates with AI

2.2%

increase in revenue on average

Recover false declines

Identify and retry false declines in real time before customers see a declined payment. Authorisation Boost pairs decline data with hundreds of signals across the Stripe network, recovering 20% of false declines on average.

Maximise acceptance rates 

Increase the likelihood of payments acceptance with issuer-optimised messaging and formatting. Authorisation Boost automatically adjusts authorisation requests based on issuer preferences to help increase your authorisation rates.

Cost optimisation

Lower card processing costs

Businesses on IC+ pricing can lower their costs with AI that prevents excessive retries and costly declines, and access network tokens savings.

2.8%

potential reduction in processing costs with custom IC+ pricing

Decline prevention

Predict and proactively decline charges most likely to be rejected, while balancing impact to your auth rates.

Excessive retry prevention

Avoid network penalties by automatically preventing excessive retries and declining previously rejected charges.

Network tokens savings

Tap into possible interchange rate and scheme fee reductions with network tokens.

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Life-cycle management

Reduce customer churn

Mitigate involuntary churn with features that keep customers’ payment information up-to-date, even if a card has been replaced since their last interaction.

Network tokens

Stripe's AI determines when to retry a transaction using a network token versus the primary account number to improve acceptance rates. Businesses can use Stripe to provision tokens or bring external tokens for processing.

Stripe supports network tokens for Visa, Mastercard and American Express

Card account updater

Card account updater accesses updated card information in real time to prevent payment failures.

Stripe supports card account updater on Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover volume – including cross-brand updates.

Analytics

Manage performance from the Dashboard