June 7, 2012
Updated March 1, 2020

What is an Intelligent Cascade Profile?

An Intelligent Cascade Profile will allow you to route transactions among several cascade gateways based on specific conditions that you set. In order to set up your Intelligent Cascade Profile, go to Payments > Cascade.  

In a different section, you can also choose to create a Cascade Profile (classic cascade) which allows you to route transactions to a cascade gateway in the event transactions fail on the primary gateway that is set on a campaign. In order to set up your Cascade Profile, click here. 

How to configure an Intelligent Cascade Profile.

To add an Intelligent Cascade Profile, you will need to select the drop-down arrow next to ‘Actions’ and select ‘Add Intelligent Cascade’ as shown in the illustration below:

Once you select Add Intelligent Cascade Profile - you will go to this screen.

First Gateways

Name: Add a name for your profile.

Description: Add a description of your profile.

Currency: Select the currency you would like to use.  This must be selected before choosing your first gateways.

Maintain MID Group: This will allow you to Maintain the MID Group from the previously declined transaction.  For further information on MID Group, please visit our Help Center article.

Off: Ignore MID group.
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First Gateway: This is a multi-select of all active gateways for the currency selected.  Only gateways that have not been selected as the initial gateway in a different profile (intelligent or ‘Gateways Assigned To This Profile’ in classic cascade) are displayed.

Once you have selected your first gateway(s), you will then proceed to add your conditions.  You are able to add up to five (5) conditions per Intelligent Cascade profile.  

Conditions

Name: Create a name for your condition set.

Must Match:

All Conditions: Orders will only cascade if they meet ALL conditions that you have configured.

Any Conditions: Orders will cascade if they meet ANY of the conditions that you have configured.

Please view the table below to see all available conditions:

Force: Match gateway MID Group within condition set, if no match DO NOT CASCADE.

Preferred: Attempt to match MID Group to a gateway within Condition Set, if no match to MID Group, follow next Cascade process.
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Cascade based on Billing Cycle: Cascading based on billing cycle is used to route traffic based on subscription cycle.  This can also be useful to route transactions in a later billing cycle to a specific "High Quality" MID.  If your gateway requires CVV, then you will want to only route Billing Cycle = 0 to the cascade gateway.

Cascade based on BIN: This can be used if you have BINS that are deemed low quality/high quality you will want to cascade to gateways that can either take the chance of Merchant Chargebacks, or gateways that cannot take Merchant Chargebacks based on BIN quality (User Defined BINS).

Cascade based on Campaign: This can be used if you want to keep campaigns on the same group of gateways.

Cascade based on Card Type: This can be used to cascade by a specific payment type to a gateway that can accept that payment type.  For example, Cielo can cascade to Brazilian gateways only.

Cascade based on Country: This can be used to cascade to gateways that can only process a certain Country or Currency.  This can also be used to route to cascade gateways with the same country processor/ Issuing bank.

Cascade based on Decline Reason: This is entirely based on your User Defined Hard Decline Reasons.  For example, if you receive a decline for CVV, you may want to only cascade to gateways that do not require CVV. 

Cascade based on Gateway Spend %: This is used to cascade to gateways based on the remaining gateway spend percentage of the main gateway.

Cascade based on Kount Score: This can be used to cascade to High/Low-quality MIDS to evaluate the transaction you are sending.

Cascade based on PrePaid: This can be used to cascade to High/Low-quality MIDS for anyone using a Prepaid card at checkout.

Cascade based on Salvage Attempt: This is used to cascade a particular attempt in salvage to a certain gateway.

Cascade based on Transaction Type:  This can be used if your gateway cannot do specific Auth function.

Cascade based on Product: This can be used to cascade all sales to MIDS based o the product included in the sale.

Cascade based on Payment Method: This can be used to cascade to gateways that can only process Debit or Non-Debit cards. For example, Pinless Debit can only process debit cards.

After configuring up to five (5) conditions,  you will then move over to the right to select your cascade gateway(s).  At this last step, you are able to select up to five (5) cascade gateways.

Note the following tips.

You will want to evaluate your gateways before choosing which one you want to use as the cascade gateway (s). A few things you will want to account for are:

Once your Intelligent Cascade profile is configured, you have the option to edit or add additional condition sets.  To add an additional condition set, you will need to click the (+) next to "Add Condition Set" as illustrated below:

This is the general flow of the Intelligent Cascade:

 *NOTE*- To remove the preservation on gateways preserved to an Intelligent Cascade profile MUST be removed within Payment > Subscription Management.