GLOSSARY TERM
Deposit Success Rate
Deposit success rate measures completed versus attempted funding, decomposable by method, PSP, issuer, GEO and 3DS path.
Why it outranks marketing metrics
Every failed deposit is a fully acquired, fully intending customer stopped at the till — recovering failures is pure margin. Failure taxonomy: issuer declines (gambling blocks, insufficient funds), 3DS abandonment, PSP timeouts, misconfigured routing. Remedies: cascading retries across PSPs, issuer-aware routing, APM alternatives surfaced on decline. Operators publishing 90%+ blended rates have engineered this; sub-80% setups are burning acquisition spend at the last step.