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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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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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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Rapid Dispute Resolution FAQs
Get answers to commonly asked questions about Visa’s new dispute resolution tool, Rapid Dispute Resolution.
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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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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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How to Win at Chargeback Reversals
Lots of our competitors out there want you to believe you can achieve chargeback reversals through representment, but that’s fake news.
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Chargeback vs Refund: What’s the Difference?
To a cardholder, the difference between a chargeback and a refund is merely semantics; to them, the end result for them is the same.
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Customer Disputes: What happens?
Let’s look at what happens when a customer disputes a purchase. For many merchants, their understanding of this process begins and ends with chargebacks.
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The Chargeback Process Explained
The chargeback is a complex dispute process that is mostly hidden to the merchant. This process is in dire need of an update to improve communication.
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Representment Explained
Representment is the process by which merchants can dispute a chargeback and recover the revenue at stake.
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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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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.