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How to Estimate a Sustained Authorization Rate

Estimating the sustained authorization rate for the application is the process of determining:

• How the total number of authorization requests fluctuate throughout your business day.
• How the authorization requests translate in to requests per second.

Complete the following steps to estimate the peak authorization rate for an application:

1. Estimate daily authorizations.
2. Estimate the sustained authorization rate.