Systems and methods for optimized routing of electronic transactions across multiple acquirer processors

Abstract

A method for routing electronic payment transactions may include receiving transaction-related information from a merchant, extracting transaction routing criteria from the received transaction-related information, identifying one or more eligible payment networks and one or more eligible acquirer processors based on extracted transaction routing criteria, predicting a likelihood of authorization acceptance for each combination of identified acquirer processor and identified network, identifying one or more breakeven transaction amounts for each combination of identified eligible acquirer processor and identified eligible payment network, and routing signature debit transactions from the merchant to a least cost combination of acquirer processor and PIN-less debit network selected from the eligible payment networks based on identification of a desired breakeven transaction amount for the PIN-less debit network.