Optimized Global Payments – Simplified

BlueSnap allows businesses to accept global payments as part of its Global Payment Orchestration Platform. With BlueSnap, businesses can accept payments from over 200 regions with a single integration and one account, streamlining their global sales operations substantially.

BlueSnap’s Global Payment Orchestration Platform employs Intelligent Payment Routing across a global network of acquiring banks, and offers your customers’ preferred local currencies and payment types, and local acquiring in 50 countries. These features help increase authorization rates, reduce checkout abandonment and minimize cross-border fees.

Yes. BlueSnap supports preferred global payment types and currencies, including digital wallets, ACH, SEPA, major cards and local payment methods. This ensures that customers can pay how they prefer, improving your conversions and customer satisfaction.

BlueSnap supports preferred global payment methods, including credit cards, ACH, wire transfers, and local payment methods across multiple currencies. This flexibility allows your customers to pay using their preferred method, which increases convenience and improves customer satisfaction.

BlueSnap’s Global Payment Orchestration Platform is a unified payments solution that consolidates multiple payment methods, acquirers and geographies into a single integration and account – it’s the payment processing and the orchestration in one. It offers a modular, API-driven infrastructure that allows businesses to turn services on or off by country, product, issuer and more.

The BlueSnap Payment Orchestration Platform offers businesses several benefits, allowing them to:

• Increase authorizations & lower costs: Use tools like tokenization, Level 2/3 data, Intelligent Payment Routing and failover logic.
• Scale globally with ease: A single integration provides global payment acceptance with preferred global payment types, currencies and local acquiring to help avoid cross-border fees.
• Support various payment use cases: From online checkout and subscriptions to invoicing, embedded payments, virtual terminals and more.
• Modular value-added services: Turn fraud prevention, tax calculations, chargeback management and reporting on or off as needed.
• Reduce technical debt: Streamlines operations by replacing multiple integrations and accounts with a single integration.

By offering a single integration to our Global Payment Orchestration Platform, BlueSnap reduces complex maintenance burdens and frees development resources to focus on strategic business growth.

By offering preferred payment types and currencies, local acquiring in 50 countries and support in regions worldwide, BlueSnap helps businesses localize checkout experiences and significantly reduce cross-border fees all with a single integration and a single account. This allows businesses to streamline their operations and reduce technical debt.

By optimizing transaction routing and using local acquiring banks, BlueSnap helps reduce cross-border fees, interchange rates and gateway charges. BlueSnap also consolidates reporting and third-party integrations, reducing operational overhead.

BlueSnap is uniquely positioned as a Global Payment Orchestration Platform that boosts ROI by increasing authorization success, reducing costs, enhancing user experience, and simplifying global scalability—supported by expert assistance and modular flexibility.

Cross-border payments, or cross-border transactions, occur when the acquiring bank and the issuing bank are in different regions. When banks process cross-border payments, they perceive them to be riskier than domestic transactions, leading to higher fees and a greater likelihood of being declined.

Yes, unnecessary cross-border fees and foreign transaction fees can be avoided. When you use a payment provider that can help you process your payments as if they were local with local card acquiring, helping to increase your authorization rates and avoid unnecessary fees.

Local card acquiring is when the acquiring bank and issuing bank are both in the same region. Using local card acquiring whenever possible reduces fees and increases authorization rates. 

Cross-border payments can take any of the same forms as domestic payments, from eWallets and card payments to bank transfers. It’s important to be able to accept all types of payments, including payment types native to particular countries you sell in. That way, customers from around the world find it easy to pay. Shoppers in different countries also have different purchasing habits, such as on mobile vs. laptop. The more you tailor the experience to your customers’ locations and preferences, the more you will sell.

Processing card payments comes with associated fees. When you process cross-border card payments, additional fees are charged on top of them. These additional cross-border fees are fixed, non-negotiable and set by card networks.

Whenever someone buys your goods or services using a credit or debit card, you pay a card processing fee. The majority of the fee, which varies by type of card, is the interchange fee. When the customer uses a card issued in a different country or region from where the payment is processed, there may be an additional cost for a cross-border fee that is added on top of the regular interchange fee.

The exact cost of fees will depend on where in the world your business is based, and the currency used for the transaction, but they can run up to an additional 2%.

As international commerce grows, B2B cross-border payments are increasingly important as B2C payments, but functionally they often lag behind B2C payments in terms of customer experience, transaction speed, amount of manual effort required and more. B2B companies can close that gap, and see a 25% uptick in conversion rates, by choosing a payment processor optimized for cross-border transactions.

Yes. Presenting in local currency is when a merchant charges a customer in the currency local to them. Many merchants instead charge in the currency local to their business, which has negative impacts including:

• Higher cart abandonment due to the cardholder not knowing the final cost.
• Higher rate of declines from the cardholders’ banks due to perceived risk.
• Higher billing inquiries from cardholders confused by converted amounts on statements.
• Higher chargebacks from cardholders seeing a price they didn’t agree to on their statements.

By offering local currencies to your shoppers, you decrease the likelihood of cart abandonment, declined transactions and chargebacks.

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Payment optimization is the process of improving how payments are routed and processed to increase approval rates, reduce costs, and enhance the user payment experience.