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# Account Updater

Get updated card information with our Account Updater services.

[View source](/online-payments/account-updater.md)

##### What is Real Time Account Updater?

To learn more, read our blog post on this topic: [A new Account Updater — for buying in real time](https://www.adyen.com/knowledge-hub/a-new-account-updater-for-buying-in-real-time)

Visa, Mastercard, and Cartes Bancaires offer a service to inform about changes to account information, such as the expiry date of a card. With Adyen's [Account Updater services](#choose-your-account-updater), you can update the account information of your shoppers' cards and maintain continuity in their payment relationship, despite changes in their account information. Adyen offers Account Updater services as an extension to the [Adyen tokenization service](/online-payments/tokenization).

You can receive updates when:

* A new expiry date for expired cards is available.
* A new card replaces the old one.
* A shopper reports loss or theft of their card.
* A shopper informs their card issuer that they no longer authorise you to charge their card automatically.

## Choose your Account Updater

Depending on your business use case, you can use either the synchronous [Real Time Account Updater](#real-time-account-updater), or the asynchronous [Batch Account Updater](#batch-account-updater).

### Real Time Account Updater

To check for updates from Visa, Mastercard, and Cartes Bancaires in real time and ensure that your billing cycle uses up-to-date payment information, we recommend [Real Time Account Updater](/online-payments/account-updater/real-time-account-updater) as an integration-free solution.

We automatically ask for updates while the payments are being processed. If a payment is declined, we send an account update request and immediately retry the payment with the updated details. You receive the updated card information synchronously, in the payment response. If you use Adyen tokenization, the token storing the card details is updated automatically.

### Batch Account Updater

Getting card updates through the [Batch Account Updater](/online-payments/account-updater/batch-account-updater) is an asynchronous process. You send batch request files to us for updates. We get these updates from the card schemes, and send the updated information back to you in a batch result file. You then need to make a [/payments](https://docs.adyen.com/api-explorer/Checkout/latest/post/payments) request to update the card details.

Batch Account Updater provides benefits over Real Time Account Updater for specific use cases, including:

* Control over which cards are updated and when.
* Making updated card details available at a certain time.
* Making updated card details available on the initial transaction attempt.

## Next steps

###### [Real Time Account Updater](/online-payments/account-updater/real-time-account-updater)

[Automatically get updates to your shopper's account information during payment processing.](/online-payments/account-updater/real-time-account-updater)

###### [Batch Account Updater](/online-payments/account-updater/batch-account-updater)

[Send batch files to get updates to your shoppers' card information.](/online-payments/account-updater/batch-account-updater)
