Payment Success Rate: How to Measure, Diagnose, and Improve It
· 4 min read
Payment success rate is often treated as one number, but a single percentage can hide more than it reveals. A checkout can fail before a payment request is created, an authorization can be declined, a successful authorization can fail to capture, or a provider response can remain unknown until reconciliation.
Improvement starts with a precise definition of the funnel and a consistent denominator.
