A card-not-present merchant came back from a monitoring threshold · Midcore Operations
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Managed Payments Operations

A card-not-present merchant came back from a monitoring threshold

A rising dispute ratio put the account within sight of a card brand monitoring program, and with it the processing relationship itself.

Subscription merchant processing at scale
Client type
Live in 2 weeks, ongoing
Duration
Managed service retainer
Engagement model
3
Services used

01 The challenge

  • Chargebacks were going unanswered because no one owned the queue day to day.
  • Rebuttals used a generic template rather than matching the reason code and the evidence the issuer expects.
  • Nobody had traced the disputes back to their root causes by product and reason code.

02 What we did

  1. 01 · Assess

    We read the dispute files, mapped reason codes against products and channels, and separated preventable disputes from contestable ones.

  2. 02 · Embed

    The desk took the dispute queues across processors and gateways within two weeks.

  3. 03 · Operate

    Reason-code-specific rebuttals, evidence pulled from the merchant's own order and support systems, plus pre-arbitration handling.

  4. 04 · Prevent

    Alert network enrolment, a refund workflow, 3-D Secure tuned by risk and amount, and descriptor and refund policy fixes.

03 What changed

  • The dispute ratio moved back below the monitoring threshold and stayed there.
  • Win rates were reported from actual outcomes in the first month, not projected.
  • Root-cause analysis fed product and billing changes that removed whole categories of dispute.
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