Mastercard told investors on Oct. 29 that one-time card numbers for AI shopping agents are a temporary bridge and tokenized payments are the destination. If your store takes orders that an AI agent places for a buyer, the card credential in that checkout is going to change, and your payment processor decides how fast. CEO […]
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Washington voters decide Tuesday whether to repeal a 9.9% income tax on household income above $1 million, set to start in 2028. If your store runs through an LLC or S corporation, its profit flows onto your personal return, and that is how it reaches this tax. For the store owners we teach at Ecommerce […]
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Disclosure: some links below are affiliate links, which means I may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. ClearSale and ChargebackOps are my chargeback partners, and I say so each time they come up. Shopify Payments and Shopify Protect are not my partners. I do have a standard Shopify store-signup referral link, an […]
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Your chargeback ratio is the number of chargebacks divided by the number of transactions, multiplied by 100. As of November 2026, the lines that matter for a store are 1.5% on Visa (the excessive level in Visa’s VAMP program, with at least 1,500 disputes and fraud reports in the month) and 1.5% on Mastercard (the […]
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Disclosure: some links below are affiliate links, which means I may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Does Square have chargeback protection? As of November 2026, I could not find a current Square chargeback protection program on the Square pages I loaded. A post on Square’s community forum from 2019 says Square […]
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Disclosure: some links below are affiliate links, which means I may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. ClearSale and ChargebackOps are my partners, and I say so each time they come up. PayPal Chargeback Protection is a paid add-on, and PayPal Seller Protection is a free feature, and mixing them up is […]
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A chargeback reason code is the short code a card network attaches to a dispute to say why the cardholder’s bank pulled the money back. As of November 2026, Visa sorts its dispute conditions into four numbered groups (10 fraud, 11 authorization, 12 processing errors, 13 consumer disputes), Mastercard uses four-digit codes in a similar […]
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Disclosure: some links below are affiliate links, which means I may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Stripe Chargeback Protection was announced in 2019 as a one-click add-on that reimburses the disputed amount plus chargeback fees on fraudulent charges, for a listed fee of 0.4% per transaction. That is the only Stripe […]
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The best chargeback management software for a small store depends on one thing first: whether you want a tool that fights disputes after they land or a service that blocks bad orders and backs its decisions with a guarantee. As of November 2026, the cheapest published entry point I could verify is ClearSale’s Growth plan […]
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I’ve sat across from sellers who had a genuinely good business and still watched their deal slow down, or their price get chipped away, because their books couldn’t actually support the numbers they were claiming. I teach ecommerce and high-ticket dropshipping at Ecommerce Paradise, and clean financials are one of the cheapest, most controllable levers […]
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