Chargeback Prevention: 15 Proven Strategies to Protect Your Revenue Chargebacks are inevitable for online merchants, but high chargeback rates aren’t. The right combination of prevention tactics can reduce your...
Friendly Fraud: How to Identify and Fight Illegitimate Chargebacks Friendly fraud also called first-party fraud — occurs when a legitimate cardholder makes a purchase and then files a chargeback...
Visa Chargeback Rules 2025: What Merchants Need to Know About VAMP Visa overhauled its dispute monitoring system in 2025, replacing the legacy Visa Dispute Monitoring Program (VDMP) and Visa Fraud Monitoring...
Payment Fraud Prevention: A Complete Guide for Ecommerce Merchants Payment fraud is the single largest operational risk for ecommerce merchants. In a card-not-present environment, which includes every WooCommerce transaction,...
CNP Fraud Prevention: Protecting Your Online Store from Card-Not-Present Fraud Card-not-present (CNP) fraud is the dominant fraud type for ecommerce merchants. Without a physical card to verify, every online transaction...
PCI DSS Compliance Checklist: A Step-by-Step Guide for Merchants PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) compliance is a requirement for every business that accepts, transmits, or stores...
PCI Compliance for Small Business: What You Actually Need to Do PCI DSS compliance sounds intimidating, especially for small business owners without a dedicated security team. The good news: if you’re...
WooCommerce Fraud Prevention: Protecting Your Store from Fraudulent Orders WooCommerce fraud prevention is a practical challenge for every store owner processing real transactions. Unlike enterprise merchants with dedicated fraud...
Address Verification Service (AVS): How It Works and When to Use It Address Verification Service (AVS) is one of the most widely used fraud prevention tools in card-not-present payments. It checks the...
3D Secure Payments: What Merchants Need to Know About 3DS2 3D Secure (3DS) is the authentication protocol that adds a verification layer to card-not-present transactions. Version 2 3DS2 — is...
Best WooCommerce Payment Gateway: A 2025 Comparison Guide Choosing the right WooCommerce payment gateway affects your fees, the payment methods available to customers, fraud protection, and how much...
WooCommerce PCI Compliance: Securing Your Store’s Payment Flow WooCommerce stores must comply with PCI DSS — but what that means in practice depends heavily on how your payment...