[knighthacker]

Using more than one payment processor is definitely a smart move. Not only to avoid unpredictable consequences such as this acquisition, but also because it will give you a negotiating advantage as payment processing becomes more and more of a commodity.

[ante_annum]

From an engineering perspective at my last job, having multiple also allowed us to abstract away the processors themselves into ways that made adding a new one pretty painless. If one went down, we just failover seamlessly.