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# Why Basis Theory?

Remove the burden of PCI compliance and create more flexibility with your payment workflows.

## We support customers across the world

## Marble Insurance Maintains PCI Compliance with Basis Theory

[Read story](https://blog.basistheory.com/customer-story/marble)

## Method Financial Finds Support and Growth with Basis Theory

[Read story](https://blog.basistheory.com/customer-story/method-financial)

## Passes Journeyed From Payment Provider Nightmare to Payments Optionality with Basis Theory

[Read story](https://blog.basistheory.com/customer-story/passes)

## Forage Enables More EBT Transactions with Help from Basis Theory

[Read story](https://blog.basistheory.com/case-studies/forage)

## Independent from the ground up

An agnostic card vault requires agnostic enrichments. We've partnered with respected brands like Ravelin and Pagos to provide card enrichments native to the vault that can be "turned on" by tenant - or, you can bring your own partners.

## Modern Developer Vibes

Operate and manage the Basis Theory configuration in your existing software development lifecycle with providers like [Terraform](https://developers.basistheory.com/docs/sdks/server-side/terraform). With sophisticated logging, [access controls](https://developers.basistheory.com/docs/concepts/access-controls), and [global deployments](https://developers.basistheory.com/docs/features/global-data), developers can monitor, control, and set rules that best meet their needs.

## Your Strategic Partner

We work side-by-side with your team through integration and beyond. Migrations are always 100% free and supported by our team of payments experts.

## Offering You Complete Control

You own the data. Basis Theory supports any protocol, data, or file format and can accept data from any source or route to any destination.

## At the Forefront of Agentic Commerce

Agentic commerce requires an ecosystem of integrations to work together. Control these integrations—and enable agentic payment flows—with Basis Theory as the foundation.

Built with a separation of authentication and authorization for credentials, Basis Theory is primed to route across Visa intelligent commerce, Mastercard AgentPay, and more.

## Secure by Design

The Basis Theory platform is scaled leveraging infrastructure-as-code, eliminating the risk of human error in deployments.

Best-in-class communication standards over TLS 1.2+

Support for any Protocol: HTTP, SFTP, ISO

Encrypted at rest and in transit with tenant-specific keys

## A Strong Operating Partner

Basis Theory is multi-region & multi-zone—providing hot-hot "super region" redundancy globally. With SDK dual-writing to fallback processors, you never miss a payment, as there is no single point of failure. This leaves 100% uptime on card capture and processing.

More of the transactions you want.

Less of the risk and fraud you don't. Start testing now or discuss your use case with our team today.
