Tags: avs

Updating your AVS (Address Verification Settings)

This tutorial will show you how to set rules for accepting and rejecting transactions based on the address of the customer. You’ll receive step-by-step instructions for customizing address verification based on the processor and national or international transactions.

iSpyFraud Settings

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use this fraud protection tool to flag or block specific transactions running through your gateway account. You’ll discover how to set rules for transactions based on thresholds, user bans and exceptions, along with learning how to review flagged transactions, and access the status [...]

What is Address Verification?

Address Verification is a very important step in any card-not-present sale. Whenever you accept a card without physically seeing the card, you inherently run a much higher risk of accepting a fraudulent card. As a merchant, you want to do everything in your power to reduce that risk. There are [...]

Setting your fraud filters

Setting your Fraud Filters. Address Verification is a very important service that you should be fully utilizing in order to protect yourself against fraud. Depending on the types of transactions you accept, you may need to edit your AVS settings so that international orders or specific purchases can be authorized. [...]

Address Verification (AVS) Fees

Address Verification Services are included free of charge at Dharma. For our Virtual accounts, this fee is included in our $0.11/transaction margin, since we feel that all merchants should be utilizing the Address Verification Services (AVS). AVS helps you protect against fraud by forcing your customers to input the address information associated [...]

Best practices

The best practice you can have is to always be vigilant with your credit card transactions. Just like you protect your cash, protect your credit card sales! Review daily transactions, don’t allow orders or sales for fishy-smelling deals and protect sensitive information. Online Best Practices Use AVS (Address Verification System): Always use [...]

Accepting International sales

International orders can really help boost sales and donations, but they carry higher inherent risks. To help avoid being the victim of fraud, we recommend shipping products outside of the US only once you have vetted the cardholder and verified their address. Below are some best practices for your organization [...]

Using Address Verification Services

Address Verification is a very important service that you should be fully utilizing in order to protect yourself against fraud. Depending on the types of transactions you accept, you may need to edit your AVS settings so that international orders or specific purchases can be authorized. Learn how to edit [...]

How do I protect against online fraud?

Fraud losses cost the financial and retail industries over $250 billion annually, and cyber-crimes get more sophisticated every year. Online merchants are typically more vulnerable than in-person merchants, due to the fact that there are many more opportunities for fraudsters to attack an organization via digital means. As an online [...]

Is Authorize.net safe?

You may be asking yourself how Authorize.net stays secure, and how your sensitive data stays safe. We’re happy to report that Authorize.net is one of the safest gateways out there, and has been around since 1996 helping merchants accept online payments. They’re well known as one of the most secure [...]