Payments Industry News
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Automating Chargeback Responses in Shopify
Learn how Shopify merchants can automate chargeback responses to save time, reduce manual work, and improve win rates using connected dispute management tools.
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The Future of Chargeback Regulation
Learn how Visa’s new VAMP rules and changing network oversight are shaping the future of chargeback regulation and what merchants can do to stay compliant.
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Chargeback Prevention in Travel and Hospitality
Learn why chargeback prevention is critical in travel and hospitality, and how ChargebackHelp’s solutions safeguard bookings, revenue, and compliance.
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Staying Under VAMP Thresholds with ChargebackHelp
Learn how merchants can stay under Visa’s VAMP thresholds, avoid penalties, and protect revenue with ChargebackHelp’s prevention and recovery solutions.
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Creating Smart Rules to Flag Risky Shopify Orders
Learn how to create smart rules in Shopify to flag risky orders, reduce chargebacks, and protect your store from fraud while keeping customers satisfied.
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Predictive Analytics for Chargeback Prevention
Understand how predictive analytics helps merchants prevent chargebacks before they happen. Learn how ChargebackHelp integrates predictive tools with alerts.
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Protect Your VAMP Ratio by Deflecting Disputes
Protect your VAMP ratio by preventing disputes from becoming chargebacks. Learn how DEFLECT with Order Insight and Consumer Clarity keeps ratios in check.
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Fraud Prevention Tools for Growing Shopify Stores
Learn the essential fraud prevention tools Shopify merchants need to protect growing stores, reduce chargebacks, and maintain customer trust.
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Lower Your VAMP Ratio with Ethoca Alerts
Lower your vamp ratio with Ethoca Alerts. Discover how ChargebackHelp’s solutions prevent chargebacks, reduce costs, and safeguard your merchant account.
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Is a 30% Chargeback Win Rate Enough? What Merchants Need to Know
Uncover tips to elevate your chargeback win rate and minimize the impact of fraudulent transactions on your business.
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The ISO Advantage: Efficient Merchant Services and Chargeback Management
Learn how ISOs, Independent Sales Organizations, operate and their impact on chargeback management for companies of all sizes.
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What Gen Z Consumer Trends Mean for Your Chargeback Risk
Mitigate chargeback risk by understanding Gen Z shopping habits. Learn how to meet their high expectations and adapt to new consumer trends.
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A Quick Look at the Legal History of Chargebacks
Learn about the key developments in the legal history of chargebacks that shaped today’s payment systems and the laws that govern them.
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Six Tips For Reducing Chargebacks Due To Customer Confusion
Learn how to effectively reduce chargebacks with actionable tips to prevent customer confusion, a preventable cause of many chargebacks.
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Understanding Transaction Data Analysis and Chargebacks
Discover the importance of transaction data analysis to help forecast and prevent chargebacks using a data-driven approach.
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Understanding Visa’s VAMP
The VAMP is launching on April 1st, 2025. Discover what this means for merchants and acquirers and how to keep your business in compliance.
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Considering Chargebacks from a Bank’s Perspective
Explore chargebacks from the perspective of the banks to understand the challenges faced by financial institutions and merchants.
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2025 Chargeback Time Limits Explored and Explained
Understand Chargeback Time Limits to protect your business and manage disputes effectively. Learn all the necessary details.
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How Does Visa Dispute Intelligence Predict Win Rates?
Visa Dispute Intelligence scores chargebacks to help merchants decide when to pursue representment. Learn how VDI works and how to use it strategically.
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Get to Know DEFLECT: Prevent Chargebacks
Prevent chargebacks by stopping disputes before they start. Learn how DEFLECT shares transaction data early to reduce risk and protect merchant accounts.
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How ChargebackHelp Uses Order Insight to Deflect Disputes
Order Insight helps prevent chargebacks by resolving confusion early. Learn how ChargebackHelp delivers it seamlessly through DEFLECT.
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How ChargebackHelp Simplifies Chargeback Management
Discover how ChargebackHelp streamlines chargeback management by combining alerts, automation, and expert support into one solution merchants can trust.
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What Every Merchant Should Know About Visa RDR
Visa RDR lets merchants resolve disputes automatically before they become chargebacks. Learn how Rapid Dispute Resolution works and how to activate it.
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2025 Chargeback Time Limits Explored and Explained
Understand Chargeback Time Limits to protect your business and manage disputes effectively. Learn all the necessary details.
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How Does Ethoca Consumer Clarity Prevent Chargebacks?
An in-depth look under the hood at how Consumer Clarity can deflect disputes and defend merchant revenue.
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The Dispute Landscape Part I: Fraud, disputes and their phases
This article dives into the “Dispute Landscape,” detailing dispute causes, terms, and definitions to get you up to speed.
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Visa’s Compelling Evidence 3.0: Why you should (not) be worried
Dubbed “Compelling Evidence 3.0” or CE3.0, these guidelines guarantee merchant protections from certain categories of disputes.
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Get to know RESOLVE: Get Chargeback Alerts
Chargeback alerts give merchants early visibility into disputes so they can act before fees and ratios are impacted. Learn how RESOLVE centralizes alerts.
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Using Dispute Notifications to Reduce Chargebacks
Dispute notifications give merchants a chance to resolve issues early and avoid chargebacks. Learn how ChargebackHelp streamlines dispute notification workflows.
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How Chargeback Alerts Power Automated Protection
Learn how chargeback alerts and automation combine to help merchants reduce risk, protect revenue, and simplify chargeback management.
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Mastercom Collaboration as a Competitive Advantage
Mastercom Collaboration helps merchants resolve Mastercard disputes before they escalate. Learn how ChargebackHelp integrates it for early resolution and revenue protection.
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How Automated Chargeback Protection Works
Discover how automated chargeback protection helps merchants reduce manual work, improve dispute outcomes, and scale faster with ChargebackHelp’s integrated platform.
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How Verifi CDRN Helps Merchants Stay Ahead of Chargebacks
Verifi CDRN gives merchants an early edge by resolving disputes before they escalate. Learn how ChargebackHelp makes CDRN easy to implement and scale.
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Ethoca Alerts: The Smart Way to Prevent Chargebacks
Discover how Ethoca alerts help merchants prevent chargebacks. Learn how real-time notifications empower you to take action, reduce risk, and protect your revenue with ChargebackHelp’s solutions.
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How Chargeback Alerts Are Transforming Merchant Risk Management
Discover how chargeback alerts are reshaping merchant risk management, helping businesses prevent disputes, reduce chargebacks, and improve customer satisfaction.
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What Are Chargeback Alerts?
Learn how chargeback alerts can help you prevent fraudulent transactions and protect your business.
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Merchant Help for Disputes on Amazon
Selling with Amazon comes with some unique benefits when dealing with disputes, provided the merchant complies with their requirements.
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The Merchant Guide to Visa and MasterCard’s Chargeback Programs
Understand what happens with the card schemes when you process excessive chargebacks on their networks. Hint: It’s expensive.
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How the US Congress Created Chargebacks
Chargebacks were created almost fifty years ago by the Fair Credit Billing Act to protect consumers from abuse.
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Prevent Alerts With Visa’s Rapid Dispute Resolution
Visa’s RDR expedites fraud resolution with automated responses to disputes based on predefined rules set by the merchant.
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Is This the Death of Chargebacks?
ChargebackHelp Plus (CBH+) in concert with Visa/Mastercard issuers, could very well usher in the death of chargebacks as we know them.
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What’s the Difference Between Credit and Debit Card Chargebacks?
The origin of the chargeback is forever tied to credit cards. But there are other cards that can induce chargebacks, such as a debit card.
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What is a Chargeback Fee?
The chargeback fee can vary based on factors like business type, banks, and card schemes. Chargebacks are costly, with additional time and effort involved for merchants.
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Ways to Protect Your Business from Credit Card Chargebacks
The real danger chargebacks present are not just the fees that accumulate; if you process too many, your processing can be abruptly terminated.
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PayPal Chargebacks & Disputes – Useful Guide
Merchants processing transactions with PayPal can face disputes as with any other payment method. Know your merchant rights and how to resolve a dispute.
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GMAP and What Merchants Should Expect in 2027
GMAP takes effect in April 2027 with new Mastercard thresholds. Learn what changes for merchants and how to protect your account before then.
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Preparing for Mastercard Scam Merchant Monitoring Rules
Mastercard scam merchant monitoring enforcement began July 24, 2026. Learn how to prepare, which triggers apply to you, and how to stay clear of flags.
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Mastercard SMMP and What It Means for Merchants
Mastercard SMMP Scam Merchant Monitoring Program takes effect July 24, 2026. Learn what triggers investigation, who is really at risk, and how to prepare.
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New Mastercom Data Sharing and What It Means for You
The latest Mastercom update changes how issuers evaluate disputes. Learn what it means for your merchant account today.
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Visa VAMP Thresholds Just Got Stricter in 2026
VAMP thresholds dropped from 2.2% to 1.5% on April 1, 2026. Learn what the stricter Visa VAMP ratio means for merchants and how to stay compliant.
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A Quick Look at the Legal History of Chargebacks
Learn about the key developments in the legal history of chargebacks that shaped today’s payment systems and the laws that govern them.
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Understanding Visa’s VAMP
The VAMP is launching on April 1st, 2025. Discover what this means for merchants and acquirers and how to keep your business in compliance.
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Could High Inflation Spur Chargebacks?
Learn effective strategies for managing chargebacks during inflation to protect your business and maintain profitability.
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pAIscreen and ChargebackHelp Team Up to Bring Enhanced Screening and Fraud Prevention To Issuers and Merchants
pAIscreen is pleased to announce it is collaborating with ChargebackHelp, a leader in dispute management, to augment it’s AI-powered, real-time transaction screening solution.
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Understanding Transaction Data Analysis and Chargebacks
Discover the importance of transaction data analysis to help forecast and prevent chargebacks using a data-driven approach.
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Compelling Evidence: Find it, use it, profit!
The key to winning representment is proper data capture. We share a little “insider knowledge” on spotting successful representment opportunities.
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How to Win at Transaction Descriptors
Descriptors are the line items you see on your bank statement that describe each transaction. Merchants must deliver concise descriptors to customers.
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Red flags your gateway should be catching
We’ve put together a checklist of some key red flags that your gateway should be automated to catch in your transactions.
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Self Assessment: Are you a soft target for fraud?
The EMV card transition is finally in high gear, which is great news for compliant retailers; card-present fraud is in decline.
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You think chargebacks are bad? Try false positives…
While screening out fraud is a top priority, it is five times more important to avoid false positives-declining legitimate purchases as fraud.
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How Friendly Fraud Can Actually Help Your Business.
Friendly fraud is the new “rubber check” because most issuing banks have a rubber stamp policy on chargebacks.