Disputing Chargebacks
Inside this guide
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Learn the hidden costs of chargebacks
Gain a full understanding of how chargebacks can impact your bottom line.
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Optimize your evidence collection
Discover which evidence card issuers find compelling and streamline your data collection process.
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Discover the ins & outs of the dispute process
Learn what’s involved in disputing a chargeback and how to improve your win rate.
Guide abstract
While most online businesses recognize the importance of preventing chargebacks, the financial impact of turning away good orders is often underestimated. This guide provides actionable tips for improving fraud review decision accuracy and safely increasing approval rates without incurring chargebacks.
Introduction
In the competitive world of eCommerce, online retailers must provide an optimal customer experience or risk losing business. But many are seeing their hard- earned revenue fall victim to costly credit card chargebacks.
A chargeback occurs when a cardholder reports to their credit card issuer that a transaction was unauthorized or otherwise unsatisfactory, and requests a refund. When the refund is approved, the charge is forwarded to the merchant who is legally obligated to reimburse it. However, if a merchant can provide compelling evidence that the order was authorized and received by the genuine cardholder, a chargeback can be disputed.
Because any customer can file a chargeback, and issuing banks are more inclined to take the customer’s side in a dispute, one of the main challenges merchants face is providing evidence to prove chargeback abuse. Issuing banks must be absolutely certain of abuse, so submitting partial evidence like screenshots of transactions from dashboards, or parcel tracking information indicating that the order reached its intended destination, generally won’t suffice.
There’s no doubt that the high burden of proof renders the chargeback dispute process both resource intensive and expensive. However, when streamlined and embedded in the business flow, the process can help businesses retrieve revenue they’d assumed was lost.
Riskified has extensive experience detecting CNP fraud and preventing the associated chargebacks. Our expertise extends beyond protecting eCommerce retailers from unauthorized credit card usage, to include identifying individuals taking advantage of the chargeback process. We also provide a representment service to assist our customers dispute chargebacks.
Throughout the fraud identification process, we collect a wide range of data that is also used as evidence to effectively dispute claims as part of this service. We’ve created this guide to assist eCommerce retailers become better acquainted with the types of information that can help them differentiate between unauthorized and authorized transactions to successfully beat chargeback abuse.
