It’s the day ticket sales open for the year's biggest festival. Your marketing team did their job: there are over 100,000 people in the virtual queue. The countdown hits zero. Traffic explodes.
And then, a deafening silence in the war room: the transaction dashboard freezes.
The payment gateway couldn't handle the spike in Requests Per Second (RPS). The customer sees a timeout or a 502 error. On X (formerly Twitter), your ticketing platform's brand is being destroyed in real-time. For a CTO, this scenario isn't just a technical incident; it is a financial hemorrhage.
In ticketing, the margin for error is razor-thin. Minutes of downtime mean millions in lost revenue and cancelled contracts with event promoters.
In today's entertainment market, stability is not a feature; it is survival.
The Solution: Orchestration and Smart Routing
To eliminate the Single Point of Failure (SPOF), you don't need a better gateway. You need an orchestration infrastructure. This is where Juspay’s technology transforms your operation.
The heart of our stability is Smart Routing.
- WHAT it does: It removes dependency on a single acquirer. If Acquirer A experiences high latency or failure, the transaction is instantly moved to Acquirer B, C, or D, without the end-user ever perceiving the error.
- HOW it works (Performance + Cost): Our algorithms analyze gateway health in real-time. But we go beyond technical availability: we configure routes based on the best Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) available at that moment.
- If two acquirers are stable, the system automatically prioritizes the one that charges less.
- The Result: Our clients record a 20% to 30% reduction in processing costs, effectively paying for the infrastructure purely through fee savings.
The outcome? Automatic redundancy that allows us to offer a contractual 99.99% Uptime SLA. Your infrastructure becomes crash-proof.
The Battleground of Ticketing Fraud
We know ticketing platforms are the #1 target for automated attacks. Bots, digital scalpers, and card testing can take down your API and destroy your profit margins with chargebacks.
The traditional technical problem is the "Integration Frankenstein." Tech teams lose months integrating three or four different anti-fraud tools, creating latency at checkout and friction for legitimate users.
The Juspay Approach: We use dynamic rules to orchestrate fraud prevention:
- Low-risk transactions (recurring users, known device fingerprints) pass with zero friction.
Beyond bringing intelligence to anti-fraud, we offer 1-click payment solutions with minimal fraud risk:
- Click to Pay (C2P) with Passkeys: A 1-click solution driven by card networks where the transaction liability shifts from the marketplace to the issuing bank. This is the evolution of 3DS—secure, seamless, and with a Liability Shift.
- Biometric Pix: A new Pix flow that allows users to pay using only their biometrics after an initial link is established between the merchant and the payer's bank.
- Wallets: Apple Pay and Google Pay solutions that offer 1-click payment backed by the payer's native facial recognition.
This drastically reduces validation costs and increases conversion for real users while keeping security bulletproof.
Swap Infrastructure Maintenance for Product Innovation
How many sprints has your team burned just to update an acquirer's API or add a new payment method?
Maintaining 5 acquirers and 3 anti-fraud providers requires a Herculean maintenance effort. With Juspay, the logic changes:
- 1 Unified API: Connect to Juspay and gain immediate access to over 350 global providers (PSPs, Wallets, APMs, BNPL, and Anti-fraud).
- Technological Freedom: Your engineering team focuses on your core business, while we handle the complexity of the payments stack.
Proof of Scale: The BookMyShow Case
Talking about performance is easy. Delivering performance when millions of fans try to buy tickets simultaneously is another story.
BookMyShow, the largest ticketing platform in India and Asia, trusts Juspay with its infrastructure. We are talking about a market that handles the national passion for Cricket (IPL) and massive cinema releases.
They use our orchestration to support traffic spikes that would melt traditional gateways.
- Massive Volume: Processing millions of simultaneous requests.
- Zero Downtime: "Blockbuster" events sell out in minutes with zero transaction instability.
If our infrastructure supports the population scale of Asia, it will support the biggest festival Brazil has ever seen.
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