Chargebacks are a form of consumer protection for credit card holders, introduced as part of The Fair Credit Billing Act of 1974.
Essentially, a chargeback voids a card transaction, withdrawing funds that were previously deposited into the merchant’s bank account and applying a credit to the cardholder. Chargebacks are normally used to dispute a card transaction and secure a refund for the cardholder.
The cardholder, rather than contacting the business for a refund, may go above the merchant’s head and asks the bank to forcibly remove funds from the business’s bank account. If the bank feels the cardholder’s request is valid, the funds will be removed from the merchant’s account and returned to the cardholder.
So lets take a look at that in greater detail.
Our cloud-based technology does not require any additional hardware or amendments to existing telephony ornetwork set up and is Acquirer and Payment gateway agnostic. Totally eliminating the need for capital expenditure, SOTpay can support businesses of all shapes and sizes in any sector.
SOTpay eliminates the risk of fraud related chargebacks for businesses, by authenticating MOTO and Omni channel CNP transactions and processes the payment in a PCI compliant manner, converting a risky ‘non-secure’ transaction into a ‘secure, authenticated, compliant’transaction in the eyes of the acquiring partner, the merchant can see significant savings in theirMerchant Service Charge's. We have seen businesses save in excess of £40,000 per annum,following the deployment of SOTpay.
SOTpay enables you to send out an electronic payment request in real time, via email, SMS, web chat or electronic invoices.
The flexibility of the SOTpay technology enables the merchant to accept secure and compliant transactions across numerous channels, boosting business by allowing cardholders to complete transactions in their desired channel of engagement. For example, if someone is engaging with the business on Facebook, SOTpay allows the business to take payment within the Facebook Messenger environment.
By preventing cardholder data in its entirety from entering the merchant environment, SOTpay makes achieving andmaintaining PCI DSS compliance easier and more manageable for your business. With liability for fraud related chargebacks eliminated the merchant can also deliver to an alternative delivery address, instead of just to the registered cardholder’s address.
As a disruptive payment technology, the PCI SSC updated their Global ‘Protecting Telephone Payments’ guidelines to include our innovative approach, which gave us tremendous credibility within the acquiring industry. We have subsequently become partners to some of the largest payment organisations in the world, helping to protect and support their merchants against the challenges that business face.
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