Load balancing

Merchant Account Load Balancing

Love Stripe? Keep it. Add a backup.

You do not have to leave the processor you already love to make your business stronger. We add a second processor beside it, Deposyt, and balance your volume across both. If one ever goes down, the other carries the load. A bad week never goes to zero, and you barely change a thing.

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Keep StripeNothing changes on your side
Two processorsOne goes down, the other carries
Same rateRun Deposyt at your Stripe pricing
DaysMost merchants live in days, not weeks
The cost of one processor

What does a week without processing actually cost you?

A single processor is a single point of failure. Processors freeze accounts without warning when a transaction profile trips a compliance flag. Outages happen during peak hours. A plugin breaks after an update. When your only processor stops, your checkout simply stops with it.

For most businesses, a week of frozen payments is not an inconvenience. It is payroll missed, ads still running with nowhere to send the sale, and customers walking to a competitor whose checkout happened to work that day. Redundancy is not cheating. It is keeping your business running.

  • Freezes and outages hit without warning, and without a clean handoff.
  • One processor down means your whole checkout is down.
  • A backup means the week never goes to zero.
THE STRATEGY THAT BUILT MODERN PAYMENTS

What is merchant account load balancing?

It is the same approach the biggest companies in the world use. Instead of sending every transaction through one processor, you spread your volume across two. The system routes payments across both Stripe and Deposyt, and if one is slow, declining more, or offline, the traffic shifts to the other. More uptime, better approval odds, and no single point of failure.

Why load balance

It is not one reason. It is a lot of them.

Redundancy is the headline. Underneath it are four very real reasons growing businesses run two processors.

01

Redundancy and backup

If one processor goes down for an outage, a freeze, or maintenance, the other keeps you live. Your revenue never depends on a single provider having a good day.

02

Separate your offers

Run different products, brands, or risk profiles on different processors. Keep things clean, organized, and easier to manage as you grow.

03

Reduce your exposure

Spreading volume across two processors lowers the chance that any single account gets flagged for a sudden spike, and softens the blow if one ever pauses.

04

Peace of mind

You stop holding your breath every time volume jumps or a big launch goes live. The infrastructure underneath you is built to absorb it.

What setup looks like

Keep Stripe. Add a backup. Done.

Four steps, and we do the heavy lifting on all of them. Nothing about your Stripe account changes.

01

Keep Stripe

Your Stripe account stays exactly as it is today. You are not migrating, not rebuilding, not starting over.

02

Apply with Deposyt

We approve a second merchant account beside it. Same-day approval for most online industries, including the ones others avoid.

03

We connect the two

We wire the two together and set the routing. Transactions flow across both, with failover if one ever stumbles.

04

You are covered

Volume balances across Stripe and Deposyt. One goes down, the other carries the load. You barely notice, and your customers never do.

The fee question, answered

Same fees as Stripe. Or no fees at all.

The most common worry is that a backup costs more. It does not have to. You choose.

Same fees, no penalty

Run Deposyt at your Stripe pricing. Adding redundancy does not cost you more per transaction. You simply gain a backup.

Or pass the fee

Prefer zero cost? Move the Deposyt account to dual pricing and offset the processing fee, so card acceptance there costs you nothing.

Live human support

Real people, seven days a week. When something matters, you talk to someone who knows payments, not a ticket queue.

We love your vertical

High-risk, recurring, high-ticket, the categories that make other processors nervous are the ones we are built for.

What is inside

More than a backup. A smarter way to get paid.

Redundancy is what you came for. These are the tools that come with it.

Redundancy routing

If one goes down, transactions automatically route to the other. Your checkout stays open through outages, freezes, and maintenance.

Soft-decline failover

When a payment soft-declines on one processor, the system can retry it on the other, recovering sales that would otherwise be lost.

Run at your Stripe rate

Match your existing pricing on the Deposyt account, so redundancy does not cost you a cent more per transaction.

Dual pricing option

Choose to offset the fee on the Deposyt account entirely, so card acceptance there costs you nothing.

Same-day approval

Most online industries are approved the same day, including high-risk categories other processors turn away.

Separate offers and brands

Route different products, brands, or risk profiles across both to keep everything clean as you scale.

Live human support

Real payments people, seven days a week. You are never stuck in a queue when revenue is on the line.

Lower account exposure

Spreading volume reduces the odds of a single account getting flagged, and softens the impact if one ever pauses.

Do the math

What is a week of downtime worth to you?

This is the number a backup protects. Put in your real volume and see what one frozen week would cost.

The revenue a backup protects
7 days
Revenue at risk
$18,667
Protected with both
$18,667

This is the volume that would simply stop if your only processor froze. A backup keeps it flowing. Figures are illustrative and depend on your business and how long a disruption lasts.

Support that answers

Real humans. Seven days a week.

Payments is the one place you cannot afford to be stuck in a queue. So when you need us, you reach a real person who knows the system and can actually fix the thing. That is the difference between a vendor and a partner.

  • Live human support, seven days a week.
  • We set up both accounts and the routing for you.
  • We watch both so you do not have to.
THE POINT OF ALL OF IT

Redundancy is not cheating. It is staying open.

The biggest companies in the world do not run on a single processor, and neither should you. A backup is the quiet insurance policy that means a freeze, an outage, or a bad launch day never becomes a week you do not get paid. You keep Stripe. You just stop being one bad day away from zero.

Questions

The things owners ask first.

Do I have to leave Stripe?+
No. That is the whole point. You keep Stripe exactly as it is and we add a second processor beside it. Nothing changes on your side. You simply gain a backup so a bad week never goes to zero.
Will this cost me more per transaction?+
It does not have to. You can run the Deposyt account at your existing Stripe pricing, so redundancy costs nothing extra per transaction. Or you can move that account to dual pricing and offset the fee entirely.
What actually happens if one goes down?+
Transactions route to the other processor automatically. Your checkout stays open through an outage, a freeze, or scheduled maintenance, and your customers never see the difference.
How is this different from just having a backup processor?+
A backup you have to manually switch to is not much help at 2 AM. Ours is connected and balanced, so volume flows across both and failover happens on its own. It is redundancy that actually works when you need it.
Do you work with high-risk industries?+
Yes. The categories that make other processors nervous, recurring, high-ticket, and high-risk, are exactly what we are built for. Most online industries get same-day approval.
Will load balancing improve my approval rates?+
It can. Routing across Stripe and Deposyt, and retrying soft declines on the second, recovers sales that a single processor would simply lose. More routes means more chances for a transaction to go through.
How long does setup take?+
Most merchants are live in days, not weeks. We approve the second account, connect the two, and set the routing for you. You keep working the whole time.
What does it cost?+
It is added to your Deposyt setup and priced to the protection it provides. On a quick call we will look at your volume and show you exactly what a backup is worth, then price it to the value.
Add your backup processor

You do not have to choose anymore.

Keep the processor you love. Add the redundancy you need. Run both, sleep through the next outage, and stop being one frozen week away from zero. We will set the whole thing up for you.

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