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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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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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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Payments Panacea In the Works
What if we told you there is a industry-wide panacea in the works to standardize processing and accommodate third-party payments anywhere.
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The Future of Authentication
There’s currently a lot of R&D going into creating user authentication tokens and they range from the fascinating to the downright scary.
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A Strategy for Using Call Centers
For many merchants, a customer call center is that impending solution which reduces chargebacks and invigorates customer relationships.
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EMV Migration—Not as Advertised
The EuroPay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) migration to “smart cards” is a textbook example of the dissonance between expectation and execution.
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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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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.