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How to Design a Payment Retry Microservice That Never Fails

Automated payments are the revenue lifeline, and building a dedicated retry service for failed transactions is important. This service gives failed payments another chance before they're truly lost.

Why do you Need Payment Retries?

Payment gateways can fail for many reasons, such as temporary network issues, bank downtime, or rate limits. Without a retry mechanism, these failures can result in involuntary customer churn.

Improves Customer Experience: Automated payments enable customers to bypass re-entering payment details or contacting support for help. This approach saves time, reduces frustration, and enhances the overall experience.

Make Informed Decisions: With payment retries, you gain access to failed payment data, allowing you to analyze patterns and identify the best times for successful transactions. This enables you to implement smart retry strategies, improving the success rate.

Prevents Service Disruptions: Uninterrupted service is crucial for subscription-based businesses. Payment retries help you avoid disruptions caused by failed transactions, ensuring customers continue to receive the service they expect.

Reduces Operation Costs: Payment retries save you from costly administrative interventions like chargeback processing, support services, etc.

Increases Transaction Success Rates: Retries give your business another chance to process failed transactions, improving overall payment success rates and enhancing the efficiency of the payment system.

Maintains Consistent Cash Flow: Retries help your business maintain consistent cash flow by recovering revenues from transactions that initially failed.

Designing the Retry Service

Flutterwave provides built-in tools to help your businesses recover lost revenue, manage failed payments, and automate retries.

Flutterwave makes this process even more effective with:

  • Check out retry settings that give customers multiple chances to complete payments.
  • Transaction verification and retry APIs that automate recovery.
  • Customizable billing cycles that help reduce failed transactions.
  • Real-time analytics that provide insights to optimize retry strategies.

Implementation of the Retry service is given here by Flutterwave.

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