Payments Industry News
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5 Tactics to Unfriend Friendly Fraud
While true fraud is committed by a distinctly criminal element, our very own customers most often unwittingly commit friendly fraud.
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Stronger Network, Stronger Results: ChargebackHelp’s Managed Services
ChargebackHelp’s managed services extends VIP rapid response solutions for every client and offers fully integrated managed services.
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ChargebackHelp Referral Program: Where whom you know pays
ChargebackHelp has introduced a referral program that is custom tailored for any business. We offer discounts and incentives for referrals.
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ChargebackHelp Offers International Chargeback Prevention In Over 100 Countries
ChargebackHelp’s new partnership with Universal Credit Trust gives our clients access to one of the world’s largest debt-collection agencies.
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The New Visa Rules Explained
There has been a lot of uncertainty generated from the latest changes made by Visa. We’re here to explain the new visa rules and how they affect you.
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The Coming CNP Fraud Storm: Are You Prepared?
Fraud watchers are forecasting a stormy fall and winter for merchants who accept CNP transactions. By October, US retailers must convert to EMV.
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Chargebacks and Fraud – What Every Business Should Know
So many business don’t take the necessary steps to prevent chargebacks and fraud from happening, or they take action when it is already too late.
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ChargebackHelp Expands Merchant Services
ChargebackHelp is excited to add to their portfolio of services two new programs that will further help merchants recover lost revenue.
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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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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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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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Mastercard Introduces Connected Intelligence: Reduce your false declines
Mastercard’s Connected Intelligence will help identify weak links in transaction streams regarding fraud detection and false declines.
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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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Visa & MasterCard Mandate for Subscription Transactions – What it means?
Storing payment credentials speeds up transactions but can be abused. The Visa & MasterCard Mandate requires merchants to disclose stored card info for compliance.
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PayPal Chargebacks- Everything You Should Know
This article gives a better insight into the nuances related to PayPal Chargeback Fees and help you understand what they constitute and when are they applied
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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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A Brief History of Credit Cards
Credit cards are old technology — old as money, maybe just as old as writing.So let’s take a short trip into the long history of credit cards.
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A Closer Look at Processors
Payment processors are very important, so it’s crucial for merchants to have some insider knowledge about them and the services they provide.
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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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Merchant Risk and How to Manage It
So you’re a high-risk merchant; it’s really not the end of the world. High-risk merchants have superior access to global markets and unlimited processing.
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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.


