Payments Industry News
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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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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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Mastercard Acquirer Collaboration Ends in January 2027
Mastercard Acquirer Collaboration ends January 4, 2027 in the US and Canada. Learn what the decommission means for acquirers and how to close coverage gaps.
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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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Mastercard GMAP Compliance for Merchant Portfolios
Mastercard GMAP takes effect April 2027 with new fraud and chargeback thresholds. Learn what changes for merchant portfolios and how to prepare now.
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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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Mastercard Global Merchant Audit Program Explained
Mastercard Global Merchant Audit Program takes effect in 2027. Learn what GMAP changes for merchant portfolios and how to prepare before the deadline.
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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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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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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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Chargeback Management for the Healthcare and Wellness Industry
Healthcare chargeback management requires more than a reactive strategy. Learn how to reduce disputes, resolve alerts faster, and protect your merchant account.
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How SARs Relate to Chargeback Fraud Reporting
Chargeback fraud can trigger scrutiny beyond ratio penalties. Learn how SARs connect to dispute activity and what merchants can do to protect their accounts.
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Chargeback Management for Digital Goods and Downloads
Chargeback management for digital goods requires a different approach. Learn how to reduce disputes, fight fraud, and protect your merchant account.
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In-App Purchase Chargeback Management
App chargebacks are harder to prevent and fight than most merchants expect. Learn how to manage in-app purchase disputes and protect your merchant account.
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AI-Powered Chargeback Fraud: What Merchants Can Do to Mitigate Risk
Learn how AI chargeback fraud works, why it is harder to detect, and what merchants can do to protect their accounts and reduce dispute exposure.
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2026 Chargeback Time Limits Explained
Chargeback time limits vary by card network and can be tighter than you think. Learn the 2026 deadlines for Visa, Mastercard, and Amex and how to protect your account.
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Ways to Reduce Chargebacks Without Hurting Sales
Reduce chargebacks without losing sales. Learn practical strategies to prevent disputes, automate alerts, and protect your merchant account.
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VAMP Turns One: How the VAMP Ratio Now Works
Learn what the VAMP ratio measures, how Visa’s thresholds have tightened, and what steps merchants can take to reduce exposure before penalties apply.
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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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eSkimmers and Chargebacks
EMV chips have made it virtually impossible to spoof physical cards, but these chips do little to prevent card-not-present fraud.
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Contactless Payments Continued: Benefits and drawbacks
There are concerns with contactless payment methods. Fraudsters and other risks abound. Let’s take a closer look at contactless payment.
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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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When Fraud Attacks in the Metaverse, Be Ready
The Internet revolutionized the global economy and with it fraud. It’s only a matter of time before fraud will also plague the Metaverse.
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How We Connect Merchants to Dispute Management
Today, we’re going under the hood of CBH+ to show off how it connects merchants to the most effective dispute management tools.
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UPDATE! The EU Payment Service Directive
Sorry, nerds—PSD2 isn’t a game sequel or Star Wars character. It’s an EU law regulating payment services within the European Economic Area (EEA).
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Eliminate Friendly Fraud with DEFLECT and Order Insight
In our webinar “Eliminate Friendly Fraud Before It Starts,” ChargebackHelp and Verifi provide merchants with crucial insider knowledge.
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What is Secure Remote Commerce?
Smart-chip maker EMVco has come up with a innovation that unifies security and convenience called Secure Remote Commerce.
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How and Why Visa’s VMPI Is Now Called Order Insight
When Visa launched VMPI, Verifi had its own version, Order Insight. This is the story of how they became one,
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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.