[tbrooks]

This is where solutions like Spreedly and TokenX make a lot of sense. Once the payment method is stored in their vault, you can try (and retry!) payments on multiple gateways.

[karim]

Genuinely curious — what happens when Spreedly or TokenX are down, though?

[tbrooks]

You would have the same sort of downtime as Stripe today.

But the tokenization wasn't failing for us in today's Stripe downtime -- just the API requests.