Payments Industry News
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Chargeback Management Services That Protect Your Business
Learn how chargeback management services help merchants prevent disputes, resolve alerts, and recover revenue to protect your merchant account.
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Chargeback Management for the Video Game Industry
Video game chargeback management helps MSPs reduce portfolio risk and protect gaming merchants. Learn how layered prevention and automation keep ratios compliant.
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How to Recover Revenue Lost to Chargebacks
Recover revenue lost to chargebacks with a structured representment strategy. Learn which disputes to fight, what evidence wins, and how automation helps.
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B2B Chargeback Management That Scales
B2B chargeback management at portfolio scale. Learn how MSPs can automate dispute resolution, reduce chargebacks, and protect merchant accounts across every vertical.
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The Impact of Ethoca Alerts on VAMP Ratios
VAMP ratios demand layered dispute management at portfolio scale. Learn how Ethoca Alerts helps MSPs reduce chargebacks and maintain compliance.
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How to Choose the Right Chargeback Management Company
How to choose a chargeback management company that fits your business. Learn what to evaluate, which capabilities matter, and how to protect your merchant account.
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Building Trust at Scale in the Digital Payments Ecosystem
Payments ecosystem trust starts with portfolio-wide chargeback management. Learn how MSPs can reduce risk, retain merchants, and scale with automation.
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Chargeback Prevention Strategies That Protect Revenue
Chargeback prevention strategies that protect revenue by stopping disputes before they escalate. Learn how layered automation reduces fees and ratio impact.
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Chargeback Automation for MSPs: A Portfolio-Level Approach
Chargeback automation helps MSPs reduce disputes, manage alerts, and recover revenue at portfolio scale. Learn how to deploy it across the full dispute lifecycle.
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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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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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What is the difference between Ethoca and Verifi Alerts?
By using chargeback alerts provided by Ethoca/Mastercard and Verifi/Visa, merchants can head off chargebacks before they are filed.
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What Are Chargeback Alerts and How Can They Help?
Chargeback alerts rank among the most effective and useful prevention tools. We’ll take a moment to explain what they are and how they work.
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Visa Verifi’s RDR and CDRN Tools Explained
Did you know all Verifi and Visa dispute solutions are available through ChargebackHelp? They’re part of our one-stop-solution for merchants.
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How Ethoca Alerts Can Protect Your Business and Prevent Chargebacks
A comprehensive review of Ethoca’s chargeback prevention tool.
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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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A Guide to Dispute and Fraud Notifications
Find out how to use dispute & fraud notifications to reduce disputes, lower costs and protect your merchant account.
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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.