Payments Industry News
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How Customer Verification Reduces Chargeback Exposure
Reduce chargebacks with stronger customer verification. Learn how AVS, security codes, and 3-D Secure lower dispute risk and protect your account.
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Benchmarking Chargeback Performance Across Merchant Verticals
Chargeback performance varies by merchant vertical. Learn how MSPs can benchmark by category and build a smarter monitoring framework.
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How to Control Chargebacks: When to Refund, When to Fight
Learn how to control chargebacks by knowing when to refund and when to fight, including how Mastercard’s SMMP changes the strategy.
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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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The Chargeback Process Explained for MSPs and ISOs
Chargeback process explained for MSPs and ISOs. Learn how disputes, chargebacks, and representment shape portfolio risk and how to manage each stage.
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Blacklisting and Whitelisting for Chargeback Control
Learn how blacklisting and whitelisting help merchants control chargebacks, cut fraud, and protect revenue as part of a layered dispute strategy.
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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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How to Build a Chargeback Management Offering for Your Merchant Portfolio
Chargeback management for MSPs turns portfolio risk into recurring revenue. Learn how to build a complete offering with ChargebackHelp.
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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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A PayPal Chargeback: Is the Seller Protection Program Enough?
PayPal doesn’t exactly protect you from chargebacks. But they do offer a Seller Protection Program to help reduce the number of chargebacks and disputes.
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How Does Zero Liability Policy Affect Merchants
Visa and MasterCard have “zero liability” policies in place in order to protect consumers against fraud. But how do how zero liability policies work?
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Verifi CDRN Chargeback Alerts – Everything You Need to Know
With the use of CDRN chargeback alerts Verifi gives merchants a chance to fight chargebacks and customer disputes on a more equal ground.
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Everything You Need to Know About Merchant Chargeback Rights
Even within a system that is so thoroughly pro-cardholder, and thus merchant-unfriendly by proxy, merchants do have chargeback rights.
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5 PayPal Chargeback Scams & How to Prevent Them
Even though PayPal is well-known for being secure it doesn’t come without issues. As with most payment processors they’re susceptible to chargeback fraud.
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The Perfect Customer Service Response to Chargebacks
Chargebacks are considered to be a friction point between merchants and customers. But it doesn’t have to be with the perfect customer service response.
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Five Common Chargeback Myths Destroyed
Understanding chargebacks is not that straightforward and it generates a lot of gossip, misinformation, and myths.
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The Cost of Chargebacks
What is the true cost of chargebacks? “How much?” is a common yet tough question to answer, especially in the payments industry.
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Arbitration is Not Your Friend
Arbitration chargebacks are the “ugly divorce” of transaction disputes. It means you have exhausted all reasonable recourse to resolve a dispute.
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Use Returns to Reduce Chargebacks and Disputes
Let’s take a close look at how retailers can set up effective return policies to keep your customers happy and keep your revenue safe.
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New Mandate! The Mastercard Acquirer Collaboration explained
Acquirers must now purchase and distribute non-Ethoca alerts, a new mandatory workflow called “Acquirer Collaboration” by Mastercard.
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Taking the Fight to Chargebacks: A Step-by-Step Guide to Dispute Management
Dispute management providers like ChargebackHelp integrate the right tools across all payment networks into one platform.
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The Four Most Common Dispute Management Services
Chargebacks are a major threat for merchants online and IRL. Fortunately, companies can use dispute management services, to reduce risks.
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Confirm Your Deliveries, Retain Your Revenue
Your money rides along with that package, and without that delivery confirmation, your revenue can float away if a dispute arises.
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How To Profit From Returns
Returns are expensive, but chargebacks cost even more, so you do need a sensible and visible returns policy.
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A Guide to Disputes with the Big Four Issuing Banks
Here’s everything you need to know about handling chargeback disputes with the big four credit card companies and banks.
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Managing Disputes on Stripe
Stripe offers a cutting-edge solution for digital payments, but merchants still face disputes and chargebacks on the platform.
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In-House or Out-Sourced Dispute Management? What You Need to Know
Dispute management is a balancing act. You want to protect your bottom line from fraud and chargebacks, but keep your costs low.
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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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Chargeback Reason Codes: An MSP-Level Guide
Chargeback reason codes explained for merchant service providers. Compare Visa, Mastercard, Amex and Discover codes and reduce portfolio risk.
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Chargeback Management Tools Explained
Chargeback management tools explained for merchants. Learn how alerts, order data, and representment automation work together to prevent and manage chargebacks.
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Manage Chargebacks and Protect Your Merchant Account
Manage chargebacks with automation that prevents disputes, resolves alerts early, and recovers revenue while protecting your merchant account.
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Chargeback Management for Dropshippers
Dropshipping chargebacks can drain margins fast. Learn how to prevent disputes, resolve them early, and protect your merchant account.
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How Return Policy Language Can Prevent Chargebacks
Prevent chargebacks with clearer return policy language. Learn which terms cause disputes and how to write refund rules customers actually understand.
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How Customer Verification Reduces Chargeback Exposure
Reduce chargebacks with stronger customer verification. Learn how AVS, security codes, and 3-D Secure lower dispute risk and protect your account.
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How to Control Chargebacks: When to Refund, When to Fight
Learn how to control chargebacks by knowing when to refund and when to fight, including how Mastercard’s SMMP changes the strategy.
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World Cup Chargebacks All Merchants Should Prepare For
World Cup chargebacks are coming for merchants who sell tickets, travel, and gear. Learn how to prepare before disputes turn into losses.
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Automated Chargeback Management
Automated chargeback management helps merchants prevent disputes, resolve alerts, and recover revenue. Discover how automation protects your business.
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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.