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Stripe used to help you migrate away. Not sure if they still do.

Stripe indeed helped me migrate away to a vendor in a foreign country - they did a one-time encryption of all the raw credit card numbers for my new processor to import.

The trouble was finding a processor that actually knew what it meant to import the raw credit card numbers (because stripe wouldn't send it to me). But I found one and it all worked out.

I recommend Spreedly for things like this - having a card vault that's independent of your processor can massively de-risk operations and allow you to dynamically route specific transactions to different gateways to optimize profitability. While I haven't tried an import with them, they do support this workflow: https://docs.spreedly.com/guides/migrating/one-time/

I used to pay $15 per month for Spreedly. Then they raised the price to $500 per month (plus usage fees) and don't even have published pricing any more. Quite the change. I don't recommend.

> But I found one and it all worked out.

Who?

In Israel, sumit.co.il was able to cooperate with Stripe to import my tokens. (I had to pay for some developer time.)

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