Chargeback Management

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Chargeback management refers to the process of handling payment disputes when customers challenge transactions with their banks, often resulting in lost revenue, fees, and potential risks for merchants. Understanding and controlling chargebacks is crucial for businesses, as mismanaging them can lead to increased costs, disrupted payment access, and damaged reputations.

  • Document and automate: Build systems that gather and organize transaction evidence automatically, so your team can quickly respond to disputes before deadlines expire.
  • Monitor ratios: Track chargeback rates closely and stay below card network thresholds to avoid costly penalties, higher fees, or account termination.
  • Unify fraud prevention: Integrate data and detection tools across all payment processors to catch repeat fraudsters and reduce manual investigation.
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  • View profile for Jason Heister

    Driving Innovation in Payments & FinTech | Business Development & Partnerships @VGS

    17,944 followers

    𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀, 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗹𝘀 Merchants and folks in payments often use these terms interchangeably when they’re actually very different. Confusing them can cost time, money, and customer trust Let’s break it down 👇 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱 → A merchant-initiated return of funds to the customer. The sale is reversed at the merchant’s discretion (product return, service issue, goodwill) ▪️Customer asks merchant directly ▪️Handled via acquirer → issuer → customer ▪️Generally cheaper and faster than a chargeback 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 → A cardholder disputes a transaction with their bank. The issuer pulls funds from the merchant, pending investigation ▪️Customer bypasses merchant ▪️Higher fees + penalties for merchant ▪️Impacts chargeback ratio (risk of being flagged by Visa/Mastercard) 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗹 → A transaction is cancelled before settlement ▪️Merchant or issuer prevents funds from being finalized ▪️Typically happens due to fraud detection or technical error ▪️Least damaging for both merchant and customer 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 → Refunds are under your control — but too many can signal product/service issues → Chargebacks are expensive — fees, lost goods, higher risk categorization → Reversals are cleaner — but usually out of merchant control, triggered by banks or fraud systems The danger is confusing which is which. If your ops team treats chargebacks like refunds, you’ll miss the dispute deadlines and lose every case by default 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗘𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 You run a subscription service: 1️⃣ Customer forgets they subscribed → files a dispute → becomes a chargeback (with fees + ratio hit) 2️⃣ If they had come to you first, you could have issued a refund (avoiding the chargeback entirely) 3️⃣ If your fraud system flagged their transaction instantly, it could have been a reversal (never impacting revenue at all) 𝗦𝗼 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻? ▪️Educate support teams → ensure they understand the difference ▪️Encourage refunds before disputes — better CX + fewer chargebacks ▪️Invest in fraud prevention → more reversals, fewer downstream problems ▪️Track ratios closely → Visa and Mastercard monitor merchant chargeback levels 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 Refunds, chargebacks, and reversals may sound similar, but the differences matter. For merchants, understanding them isn’t just semantics — it’s the difference between managing risk and being blindsided by fees, penalties, and damaged reputation. The clearer your teams are, the stronger your payments strategy will be Source: Pagos, Visa, Chargebacks911 🔔 Follow Jason Heister for daily #Fintech and #Payments guides, technical breakdowns, and industry insights

  • View profile for Roan Dollmann

    Need Banking or Payment Processing for Your Business?

    12,573 followers

    A Chargeback Isn’t Just a Refund A chargeback is a formal dispute, not a simple reversal. It’s the moment a customer challenges a transaction, and the merchant must prove it was valid, or absorb the loss. And here’s the part most merchants don’t realize: By the time you hear about a chargeback… 🔹 The funds are already gone 🔹 The fee has already been applied 🔹 Your chargeback ratio has already increased At that point, you’re no longer preventing damage. You’re responding to it. What actually happens behind the scenes 1. Customer files a dispute The cardholder contacts their issuing bank to contest a transaction they believe is incorrect, unauthorized, or unresolved. 2. Issuer pulls funds from the acquirer Once the dispute is accepted, the issuer provisionally reverses the transaction. The merchant is debited immediately, before any evidence is reviewed. 3. Card network steps in Visa, Mastercard, or Amex routes the dispute and enforces strict rules, reason codes, and deadlines. 4. Acquirer notifies the merchant The merchant receives the chargeback notice, including the reason code, and can either accept or challenge it. 5. Merchant gathers evidence Delivery confirmation, policies, usage logs, and customer communication are collected to support the transaction. 6. Evidence goes back through the network This stage is called representment. The issuer reviews the documentation via the card network. 7. Issuer makes the final decision If the evidence is accepted, funds are returned. If not, the loss becomes final. Chargebacks aren’t just operational noise. They’re costly, time-consuming, and risk-signaling. Left unmanaged, they can lead to higher processing costs, monitoring programs, and even account termination. That’s why dispute management isn’t optional; it’s part of running a sustainable payment operation. How merchants reduce exposure ➡️ Use 3DS, AVS, and CVV checks ➡️ Log delivery data, policies, and customer communication ➡️ Respond quickly to disputes ➡️ Route traffic intelligently based on risk signals ➡️ Work with processors that understand your business model Chargebacks aren’t a customer service issue. They’re a systems issue sitting at the intersection of fraud, operations, and risk. Are you managing chargebacks or just reacting to them? #Payments #Fintech #Chargebacks #PaymentProcessing #MerchantRisk #CardNetworks #DigitalPayments #BankingExplained

  • I met with one of our recent customers, a software platform at $10mm+ ARR and offering embedded payments. They are scaling fast and moving to a multi-processor setup (e.g., using both Stripe and Adyen) to handle different regions and risk profiles. Here is the massive risk we identified in their "blind spots" 🫠 The Scenario: A fraudster they previously caught and banned on Processor A (Stripe) re-applies to the platform. Because the platform treats these processors as silos, the system doesn't recognize them and boards them onto Processor B (Adyen). They’d never know it was the same bad actor until the chargebacks hit 😭 Here is the advice I gave them to fix this visibility gap: 1. Unify your data into a single pane of glass. Stop logging into Stripe Dashboard, Adyen, and others separately. You need a system that ingests data from all your processors and normalizes it. You need to search for a merchant and see their history regardless of which rail they were boarded on ✅ 2. Play "connect-the-dots" across processors. You must be able to see hidden relationships across the entire portfolio. If a new applicant shares a bank account, email, or device fingerprint with a "bad" account you shut down on Stripe last year, you need to know before you board them on Adyen 🫡 (We've had many clients get saved by our feature, Account Graph, which does exactly this.) 3. Stop the manual "detective work." Support teams are still manually validating onboards - Googling addresses, checking social, etc. It doesn't matter which processor handles the payment; the underwriting bottleneck is the same 😔 My advice: Automate it 🤖 1. Auto-pull Google Street View + AI to verify if it's a real business 📍 2. Auto-scrape websites and social profiles to verify identity 💻 3. Auto-check adverse media to spot reputational risks 📉 4. Automate the 90%, manually review the 1%. Create global rules that sit above the processor level. If an applicant is linked to a previously banned account on any processor, auto-reject them. Free your team from the noise so they can focus on the complex cases 🔥 Their goal was to replace fragmented tools with one source of truth. That's the right move, and Coris is happy to help 🙌

  • View profile for Tatiana Preobrazhenskaia

    Entrepreneur | SexTech | Sexual wellness | Ecommerce | Advisor

    29,803 followers

    How Chargeback Thresholds Influence Payment Access in SexTech Chargeback ratios have an outsized effect on payment access in SexTech. Data shows that small increases above network thresholds can trigger disproportionate restrictions, regardless of overall revenue performance. What the Data Shows 1. Threshold breaches trigger cascading restrictions Card networks typically flag accounts when chargebacks exceed 0.9 percent of transactions or 100 disputes per month. Crossing either threshold increases the likelihood of rolling reserves, higher fees, or account termination. 2. Disputes concentrate around specific failure points Chargeback analysis shows clustering around unclear billing descriptors, delivery delays, and unmet expectations. Addressing these points reduces overall dispute volume without changing traffic mix. 3. First time buyers account for most disputes Dispute data indicates that 60 to 75 percent of chargebacks originate from first time customers. Repeat buyers rarely dispute when expectations are set correctly. 4. Prevention has a higher ROI than recovery Preventive measures such as clear descriptors, proactive delivery communication, and education reduce disputes more effectively than post dispute recovery tools, which often recoup less than 20 percent of contested funds. Why This Matters in Sexual Wellness Payment access in SexTech is fragile relative to other categories. Even modest dispute increases can disrupt processing continuity and distort growth metrics. V For Vibes benefits from monitoring dispute ratios in near real time, aligning billing clarity and delivery communication to keep chargebacks below network thresholds and maintain processor stability. Chargeback management functions as payment infrastructure control. In SexTech, maintaining ratios below enforcement thresholds is necessary to preserve uninterrupted revenue flow and accurate performance measurement.

  • View profile for Dwayne Gefferie

    The Payments Strategist | The Future of Payments Is Changing. I Help Payments Companies & Acquirers Stay Ahead.

    31,493 followers

    Chargebacks Aren't a Fraud Problem. They're a document-processing problem costing merchants between $4.61 and $5.00 for every $1 in fraud, according to LexisNexis data from 2025. The chargeback problem has always been the same. It's not that merchants lack evidence. It's that assembling it manually under the card network's deadlines is nearly impossible at scale. A significant chunk comes from chargebacks: disputes where merchants had the evidence to win but couldn't pull it together fast enough. The evidence exists. Transaction logs, customer emails, policy documents, purchase confirmations, support tickets. It's scattered across systems, all in unstructured formats. When a chargeback lands, someone has to manually dig through it all and build a defense case before the clock runs out. Most disputes get abandoned not because the merchant was wrong, but because nobody could find the proof in time. So how do you solve it? One way is to use what I call Infrastructure-as-a-Springboard. For example, take justt, the chargeback platform. Instead of reinventing the wheel, they used NVIDIA's Nemotron Parse model to build a solution for this exact problem. Using Nemotron Parse, they built a solution that is able to ingest unstructured data at scale, PDFs, emails, transaction records, policy docs, and automatically extract the relevant evidence based on what card networks actually require to win disputes. justt.ai is already running this in production. They've automated the full chargeback lifecycle using Nemotron Parse to process transaction data, customer interactions, and merchant policies, then assemble dispute-specific evidence packages that align with Visa and Mastercard requirements. So what makes this different from older approaches? Traditional chargeback tools rely on templates and manual uploads. NVIDIA's Nemotron Parse model reads the actual documents, understands context, connects disparate data sources, and builds the case automatically. It's the difference between asking someone to fill out a form and having the system pull everything you need without you having to touch it. NVIDIA's 2026 State of AI in Financial Services survey backs this up. Document processing is the number one ROI use case across financial institutions at 32%. Higher than fraud detection. Higher than customer service automation. That tells you where the actual revenue leakage lives. The companies figuring this out first aren't just recovering more chargebacks. They're flipping the economics. What used to require a team manually processing disputes now runs automatically at a fraction of the cost, letting you fight disputes you used to write off as not worth the effort. So if you are a PSP or Acquirer, instead of focusing only on Agentic use cases, make sure you also consider how new AI models can help you improve your payment operations. And if you want to know how, feel free to reach out. I've been doing it for over 20 years.

  • View profile for Marcel van Oost
    Marcel van Oost Marcel van Oost is an Influencer

    Connecting the dots in FinTech...

    288,415 followers

    💳 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬 hurt more than profits, they can block your ability to get paid. Here’s 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸, and what you can do to stay ahead: 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐓𝐨 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰 ► 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞: When a cardholder questions a charge—may trigger a chargeback. ► 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤: Issuer reverses funds, often due to fraud or complaints. 👉 Visa says “dispute”; others use “chargeback.” ► 𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭: Warns the merchant before chargeback, enabling early action. ► 𝐑𝐞-𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: Merchant submits evidence to contest a chargeback. 🔄 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰: 1️⃣ 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 A cardholder disputes a charge within 120 days. The main reasons include: ► Fraud ► Consumer disputes ► Processing errors ► Authorization issues 2️⃣ 𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 Before a formal chargeback, the issuer/cardholder may: ► Run fraud checks ► Review the transaction ► Check receipts or contact info Goal: resolve early and avoid chargebacks. 3️⃣ 𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 If unresolved, alerts help merchants avoid escalation. To prevent formal chargebacks, merchants may: ► Use auto-rules ► Issue a quick refund 4️⃣ 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 If not resolved, the chargeback is filed. Merchants (e.g., Amazon) get it via their acquirer, and the cardholder gets a provisional refund. 5️⃣ 𝐑𝐞-𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 Merchants can: ► Accept or challenge the chargeback. ⚙️ Platforms like Solidgate automate: ► Response strategy via rules/AI ► Evidence collection (e.g., delivery proof, receipts, emails, device ID) ► Submission and process management The acquirer (e.g., Adyen) sends the response to the issuer. 6️⃣ 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 The issuer (e.g., Barclays) reviews evidence: ► If valid, merchant keeps the money ► If not, chargeback is upheld 👉 Merchants always pay a fee. 7️⃣ 𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐀𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐀𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐀𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: If either side disputes the outcome, this step allows for further negotiation. 𝐀𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: If still unresolved, the dispute escalates to Visa/Mastercard, who make the final ruling. 🚨 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐬 𝐇𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬: High chargeback rates can lead to lower conversion, financial penalties, higher processing fees, and enrollment in card network monitoring programs, potentially resulting in the loss of payment processing altogether. Source: Solidgate - https://bit.ly/3I7DzYi More of this, and the latest Payments news in my newsletter: https://lnkd.in/dXtzP3AV Find this helpful? [ 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 ] Anything to add about this subject? [𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁] Nice story, Marcel. Next! [ 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 ]

  • View profile for Ali Ahmed

    Fintech & Payments | FreedomPay

    9,390 followers

    Hospitality customers are increasingly turning to chargebacks as a quick and easy refund option. Specifically, hotels are feeling the squeeze when it comes to dealing with these chargebacks. If a chargeback is a transaction reversal that is meant to serve as a form of consumer protection against fraud, why is the merchant being impacted so heavily? --- Aside from the cost & time spent on chargebacks, an uncontrolled chargeback rate can hinder relationships with card networks like Visa & Mastercard. The bigger issue, however, is fraud and the cost associated. Chargeback #fraud (a type of friendly fraud) is when consumers falsely claim a transaction was unauthorized & request a chargeback from their issuing bank. This can be either out of confusion or with malicious intent. --- So, what does a chargeback flow look like? First, the cardholder contacts the issuing bank to dispute the transaction. The issuer decides if the claim is valid or not, then sends it over to the acquiring bank to review if valid. Once the acquirer receives the chargeback to review, it checks to see if there is supporting evidence to back the claim. If there is no supporting evidence: It will request compelling evidence from the merchant, who will accept the charge if they don't have enough, or the merchant will re-present back to the acquirer. Once compelling evidence is provided, the acquirer then re-presents to the issuing bank, who will review the evidence. If the compelling evidence refutes the claim, then the transaction is reposted to the cardholder and the merchant is credited. If the compelling evidence doesn't refute the claim, then the chargeback stands. If the issuer needs more or different compelling evidence from the merchant, however, it'll push for a pre-arbitration case, which makes its way to the merchant. Finally, the additional merchant-provided evidence may or may not refute the claim, in which the card network moves the case to arbitration & decides the fate of the chargeback. --- Understanding how chargebacks flow can help merchants proactively manage disputes. By using data analytics, ensuring data integrity, having clear policies, and shifting liability to the issuer, hotels and other merchants in the hospitality industry can better manage their chargeback rates. Consulting with a #payments company, like FreedomPay, can help ID where chargebacks and friendly fraud are affecting revenue, letting the merchant focus on increasing their bottom-line, rather than safeguarding it. #Fintech #Hospitality #Hotels

  • View profile for Jonathan Shroyer

    Gaming at iQor | Foresite Inventor | 3X Exit Founder, 20X Investor Return | Keynote Speaker, 100+ stages

    21,823 followers

    Payment disputes are an unfortunate reality for every online store owner.  But many business owners never learn how the resolution process works.  That's a mistake that can hurt your business down the line. Even with clear policies and great customer service, you'll still get some chargebacks.  Customers dispute charges for all kinds of reasons, fair or not. It's just part of running an e-commerce store.  Here's how to protect yourself: 1. Learn your payment processor's dispute protocols 2. Keep detailed records of every transaction 3. Respond quickly to requests for information or chargeback notices 4. Have a clear paper trail to make your case You also have to be smart about which chargebacks are worth fighting.  Consider the time it takes to gather evidence, the fees involved, and your chances of winning.  Sometimes, it makes more financial sense to let smaller disputes go. Most importantly, always closely monitor the overall percentage of transactions that turn into disputes.  If you start getting too many chargebacks, you can lose your merchant account.  Check that ratio regularly and take fast action if it starts rising. Don't ignore chargebacks until they turn into a big problem.  A little proactive management goes a long way.

  • View profile for Boris Burkhardt

    Founder @ Guzco | Winning disputes & preventing fraud in e-commerce

    13,018 followers

    A merchant doing €10M in revenue might do €3M during the holiday season. If their fraud rate jumps from 2% to 8% during that period, that's €240K gone. For a small business, that's not just profit…that could be their entire year's margin. Here's 7 things you can do to prevent it: 1. Double-check high-value orders before shipping for suspicious patterns. Mismatched addresses? Unusual quantities? Don't just ship it. A 5-minute manual check can save you thousands. 2. Use shipping methods that mitigate risk. This means delivery codes or requiring an ID check at the door. If you can't prove it got to the right person, you're going to lose the chargeback. 3. Open every return and double-check, even when sealed. I can't stress this enough. We've all seen the pictures of bricks in boxes. Don't assume anything. These days, people buy sealed iPhone boxes and fake Nikes to return them while keeping the real items. 4. Don't let customers print their own return labels. You manage the process, you control the tracking. It makes it much harder for them to tamper with the label and claim a package was "lost" on its way back to you. Disappearing ink for return labels is currently a hot fraud method, packages get "lost" in sorting centers on the way back. 5. Register known fraudsters immediately. Don't give them a second chance to burn you. Block their name, address, and IP. No exceptions. Use a script to check new orders against your known fraudster list. 6. Actually use an Address Verification Service. It's a basic check to see if the shipping address is legitimate and not a hotel, vacation park, or house that's for sale. It's a simple filter that catches a surprising amount of fraud. Fraudsters use these addresses to avoid exposing their real location. 7. Watch for unusual purchase patterns. Multiple orders with different credit cards shipping to the same address in a short period? That's a classic red flag. Don't just ship it blindly. Doing all this yourself is a massive time sink, especially when you're already swamped. That's why we built Guzco. We automate most of this for you. Think of us as your plug-and-play, in-house fraud and risk team. We keep you safe so you can focus on selling. P.S. What's the wildest thing you've found in a return? Drop your story below. 👇

  • View profile for Arthur Bedel 💳 ♻️

    Co-Founder @ Connecting the dots in Payments... | Global Revenue at VGS | Strategic Advisor | Ex-Pro Tennis Player

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    🚨 Part 5: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 — by CellPoint Digital 👇 As digital payments grow, so do disputes. For travel merchants — where booking values are high and transactions often span multiple channels — chargebacks can quickly become a major cost center. — 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤? ► A chargeback is a forced reversal of a payment initiated by the cardholder through their issuing bank, typically due to suspected fraud, service disputes, or processing errors. ► The scale of the problem is significant: Global chargeback volumes are growing annually, costing merchants billions in lost sales, fees, and operational time. — 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 — 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝐛𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩 1️⃣ 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 — Initiates a dispute for a transaction. 2️⃣ 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞𝐫 — Sends the transaction back to the acquirer electronically (i.e. Citi, Santander, Chase...) 3️⃣ 𝐀𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐫 — Receives the chargeback, resolves or forwards to the merchant (i.e. Checkout.com, Getnet, Adyen...) 4️⃣ 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭 — Accepts the chargeback or fights it by sending compelling evidence to the acquirer. 5️⃣ 𝐀𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐫 — Reviews the merchant’s evidence and forwards it to the issuer (i.e. Checkout.com, Getnet, Adyen...) 6️⃣ 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞𝐫 — Reviews the evidence and makes a decision on the case (i.e. Citi, Santander, Chase...) 7️⃣ 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 & 𝐌𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭 — Are notified of the decision; either party may go to arbitration. → Throughout, orchestration can automate evidence submission, timelines, and reporting. — 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐝? ► Also known as first-party misuse, friendly fraud occurs when a legitimate customer disputes a valid charge — often claiming the transaction was unauthorized or the service not delivered. ► In travel, this can happen when a guest stays at a hotel or takes a flight, then disputes the payment post-service. 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞𝐬: → High difficulty in proving service delivery → Strains merchant–customer relationships → Contributes to higher fraud ratios and acquirer scrutiny — 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐏𝐚𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐎𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬 ✔ 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐬 — Instantly submit transaction details, receipts, and refund confirmations. ✔ 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 & 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 — Identify repeat offenders and suspicious dispute behavior. ✔ 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 — Integrate fraud tools to reduce invalid transactions before they occur. ✔ 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 — Manage all disputes from multiple PSPs and acquirers in one platform. → 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭: faster resolution, reduced loss rates, and better win ratios. — Source: CellPoint Digital | Steven O. ► Subscribe to 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐬: https://lnkd.in/g5cDhnjCConnecting the dots in payments... | Marcel van Oost

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