If you use PayPal for business transactions, knowing how to locate your Merchant ID is essential. We created this guide as we frequently help our clients with their PayPal accounts.
What Is A PayPal Merchant Identification Number Read More »
The update to VIRP on April 1, 2024, marked significant changes to the payment processing landscape. Starting April 1, 2025, the game will forever change again, with VAMP (Visa Acquirer Monitoring Program) replacing the Visa Dispute Monitoring Program (VDMP) and the Visa Fraud Monitoring Program (VFMP).
Visa Acquirer Monitoring Program – What European Merchants Need To Know Read More »
If you’re familiar with chargebacks, you know they’re a major concern for merchants. The impact of chargebacks is significant and multifaceted, making it essential to understand which industries are most affected in 2024.
Top Industries With Chargebacks In 2024 Read More »
It’s the start of the new year, and we at CB-ALERT decided that we either needed to make some new year’s resolutions or some predictions. We tried making some resolutions and those lasted for about five minutes, so here are our predictions for 2021.
Our (Slightly Biased) Predictions for 2021 Read More »
Recently we’ve been talking about CDRN by Verifi, a Visa owned company, and how it can help protect merchants against false and erroneous chargebacks. And you may have wondered whether Mastercard has a similar program.
Mastercard’s Ethoca Solution Helps Merchants Eliminate Chargebacks Read More »
With ecommerce sales on the rise this holiday season, there’s bound to be plenty of return fraud that follows. Whether it’s malicious, friendly, or family, there are things you can do to protect yourself and reduce the number of return fraud cases you have to deal with.
Getting Ready for Return-mageddon and Avoiding Return Fraud Read More »
Travel companies have had a rough year, but we weren’t aware of just how rough until we saw a recent article on the TravelWeekly.co.uk website about how travel agencies and travel providers are being hit with chargeback double-dipping by some of their customers.
Beware of Chargeback Double-Dipping Read More »
As the year draws to a close, Digital Transactions has come up with the 10 Most Pressing Issues in E-Payments, and we were interested to see a few of our own hot-button issues making the list. Here are four of Digital Transactions’ e-payments issues we’re most concerned about, and why.
E-Payments’ Most Pressing Issues Read More »
Friendly fraud is such a problem that it costs the credit card industry $31 billion per year. Friendly fraud and malicious fraud have increased over the last eight months, and many merchants were not prepared to fight it.
Friendly Fraud Represents up to a $31 Billion Loss Each Year Read More »
If you’re a merchant that has been accepting credit cards for a while, you’ve probably heard about the EMV liability shift and wondered how and if it affected you. If you’re fairly new to accepting credit card payments for your business, you may not even know it was a thing that caused a lot of issues for some people.
What is the EMV Liability Shift and What Does it Mean for Merchants? Read More »
