How to Create an Effective Chargeback Policy
When it comes to chargeback management, merchants typically fall into one of two categories. First, they may adopt an overly aggressive strategy that hinders legitimate victims of criminal fraud.
How to Prevent Chargebacks
Chargebacks may do serious damage to a merchant’s bottom line. The can lead to added fees, the cost of lost merchandise, shipping costs and transaction fees, and a chargeback
What is a Chargeback?
Chargebacks are often misrepresented and used interchangeably by cardholders with refunds. True, the consumer receives their money back in the end, but the two terms have vastly different meanings.
What is the Credit Card Purchase Process?
It’s a common misconception to think that the process that occurs at checkout each time a credit card is swiped, inserted, or tapped, is as simple as flipping a
How to Ban Fraudsters from Your Site
Online fraud is a threat to businesses from all industries, and it carries devastating consequences. If there’s one positive takeaway from this ugly truth, it’s that once you’re aware
What is Compelling Evidence?
As a merchant, you have two options for responding to a customer chargeback: either accept the loss, or try to recover the funds through the representment process. If you
What is an Authorization Hold?
As the name implies, an authorization hold allows a merchant to place a hold on some of the funds in a cardholder’s account. This is done to temporarily reserve
What is a Chargeback Win Rate?
A chargeback win rate is one of the primary key performance indicators (KPIs) used to gauge a merchant’s effectiveness at managing chargebacks. With the exception of the merchant’s chargeback-to-transaction
How Do I Know When I Have too Many Chargebacks?
Every chargeback represents a loss of revenue. Thus, the ideal number of chargebacks filed against a merchant is “zero.” That’s not always possible, though, as some chargebacks are unavoidable.
What are the Consequences of Filing a False Chargeback?
When one makes a purchase using a credit or debit card, that person enjoys certain consumer protections offered by card networks like Visa and Mastercard, along with the bank