Occasionally, a business may want or need to switch to a different gateway. In this case, a gateway’s credit card data portability processes and policies will become extremely important. Find out what tools or support they provide to import and export customer and credit card information. You should also determine if there are fees involved in this process and how long  the process will take.  Whenever a business decides to change gateways, they’ll need to export their credit card data from their old gateway. Because this information is so sensitive, payment gateways can be resistant to exporting the data. Even when this process is agreed to, it can take months to schedule and cost several thousand dollars in professional services fees. As well, the business will lose access to their legacy data and all their subscriber data will need to be reconfigured.  Recurly customers don’t need to worry about the portability of their credit card data. With Recurly, you can change payment gateways with ease as you needs grow or change. It’s as simple as providing the new gateway credentials and checking a box to switch the flow of transactions from one gateway to another.