Transaction Risk Prevention
The Platform uses a risk-based approach to detect, monitor, and to reduce uncertainty associated with payment processing. These strategies provide comfort to Partners and Merchants when they are conducting daily business.
You can see criteria below or within our one-pagers:
Documentation Requests
An easy way to handle, or in some cases prevent, common Transaction Risk types is to request specific documents to support legitimate transactions.
Transaction Risk Type |
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Transaction Fraud | Transaction Details: Documentation to support a legitimate transaction.
Identification Information: Government Issued ID or Passport. Funds Confirmation: Validate that buyer has funds available to avoid return.
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Credit Risk | Transaction Details: Documentation to support a legitimate transaction.
Merchant Financial Liquidity Confirmation: Validate the merchant has the funds offset chargebacks, returns, disputes.
Supplier documentation and/or proof of ability to fulfill order Proof of shipping/delivery Transaction Processing History |
Merchant Fraud | Transaction Details: Documentation to support a legitimate transaction.
Business Information: Documents to support a legitimate business.
Identification Information: Government Issued ID or Passport. Documented Explanation: A written explanation for a Merchant’s choice of risk compliance standards.
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Money Laundering |
Transaction Monitoring
Our technology and architecture uses hundreds of different data sources to manage risk both and the portfolio and account level and to drive real-time decisions for transaction monitoring.
Transaction Monitoring related rules in the Payrix portal have 3 separate actions depending on the level of mitigation:
Block
Prevents certain actions from occurring. A block could stop transactions from processing, funds from exiting, or prevent all transactional activity on the merchant account. A block is typically placed when the activity is believed to be too risky to continue or requires additional verification before it can continue.
Hold
“Hold” will be used when a transaction requires a manual review. This can occur if the transaction amount exceeds the amount that was previously approved during onboarding or if the account experiencing unusual or unexpected activity. From time to time, the Risk team will request supporting documentation or information.
Reserve
“Reserve” is used as a safeguard to prevent unplanned chargebacks or returns. When there is a reserve on an account, the merchant can continue to transact but will not have access to the funds in the reserve until the risk of chargeback or return has passed.