Payment Optimization
3 min
\<font color="#b6c7cb">\</font> topic type concept purpose explain ’s payment optimization solution and how it influences authentication and authorization strategies audience api integrators and client developers implementing payment and fraud workflows applies to apis used for payment decisioning, fraud evaluation, and authentication strategy support does not apply to data privacy apis, batch only processing, or non transactional integrations ’s payment optimization solution uses risk signals, issuer performance data, and cost considerations to guide authentication and authorization strategies payment optimization helps clients determine when to invoke authentication how to apply authentication strategies how to balance fraud risk, authorization success, and processing costs the solution operates by combining transaction event data historical issuer intelligence real time risk signals \<font color="#386b84"> note \</font> payment optimization does not execute authentication it provides decision support outputs that downstream systems use to determine authentication behavior operational flow payment optimization operates across four stages pre authentication data submission optimization and decisioning response delivery (authentication guidance) post authorization feedback loop all stages are required to enable continuous optimization core modules payment optimization consists of three core modules strong customer authentication (sca) optimization 3d secure (3ds) optimization risk based authentication (rba) each module supports a different aspect of authentication strategy based on regulatory requirements, issuer behavior, and regional considerations