Research, benchmarks and visual explainers on how money moves through Paypr.work. Free to read, share and cite.
When one acquirer is enough, when it stops being enough, and what a multi-acquirer setup actually buys you.
The first six to eight digits of a card decide how a payment is routed, priced and risk-scored — and most BIN setups have not been touched since go-live.
ISO, PSP, acquirer, PayFac, ISV — the roles that once defined the payments value chain are converging into something you assemble rather than inherit.
The reasons hiding behind the vaguest decline code in payments, and the fallback strategies that recover the sale.
The domestic card schemes that sit alongside Visa and Mastercard, mapped by region and market.