Merchant Onboarding and Merchant Monitoring
Confidently assess merchant risk of every type, including transaction laundering, to better avoid fines and expand growth opportunities.
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North American Bankcard
Avidia Bank
Flutterwave
Stax
Chesapeake Bank
West America Bank
Maverick
LegitScript Is the Trusted Leader in Data Accuracy, Risk Mitigation, and Transaction Laundering Detection
LegitScript Merchant Onboarding helps you quickly vet prospective merchants before they enter your ecosystem, while LegitScript Merchant Monitoring helps you rapidly and confidently action existing merchants with accurate and detailed analysis of website content risk.
Get Full Coverage
With LegitScript Merchant Onboarding and Merchant Monitoring, you get support through the entire merchant life cycle, helping you mitigate risk at every step.
Fast, Accurate Onboarding
Make faster, more informed onboarding decisions with LegitScript's unique merchant risk insights paired with essential know your business (KYB) data.
Minimize Risk Exposure
Reduce the risks associated with acquiring merchants in low-, medium-, and high-risk verticals in territories across the globe and in multiple languages.
Transaction Laundering Detection
Get accurate, actionable evidence of fraudulent merchants and networks backed by investigative analysis and test transactions.
Action With Confidence
Get accurate and detailed merchant analysis from LegitScript investigative analysts and regulatory experts to quickly action merchants and minimize your risk exposure.
Grow Your Business
Identify growth opportunities with support from our policy experts who track regulations and the most extensive data set of merchant activity across the commercial internet.
Stop Transaction Laundering and Other Complex Forms of Fraud
With a proprietary database comprising more than 15 years of problematic merchant data, our unparalleled view across payments ecosystems makes us the leader in transaction laundering detection.
LegitScript investigative analysts leverage our robust data set and advanced identification technology to:
- identify violative content
- perform investigative research
- identify transaction laundering
- map out fraud networks
- stop repeat violators
Avoid Scrutiny and Expensive Card Brand Fines
LegitScript’s unique combination of big data, advanced technology, and human review provides the most accurate merchant content risk monitoring to quickly identify card brand violations across verticals, geographies and languages.
Monitoring for 60+ high-risk verticals:
- Pharmaceuticals and supplements
- Online gambling
- Cannabis and CBD
- Weapons
- Adult and human trafficking
Onboard Merchants Quickly and Confidently With Robust Data Sets
With more than 15 years of work with the world’s leading payments companies, search engines, social media companies, and e-commerce marketplaces, LegitScript has the most comprehensive view of payments risk on the commercial internet.
Now we’re pairing our RiskCheck solution with essential KYB checks to provide comprehensive merchant onboarding.
Increase Revenue by Exploring New Industries and Markets
Our experts track global regulations across high-risk verticals to help you explore new markets and revenue opportunities with confidence.
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Merchant Onboarding
Get fully integrated KYB checks paired with LegitScript's unique merchant risk assessments.
Merchant Monitoring
Learn how to get the most accurate and highest quality merchant intelligence on the market - all in real time.
Demo Videos
Demo videos, use cases, and top resources that can help you understand how to leverage LegitScript for risk mitigation and merchant monitoring.
Resource Center
LegitScript's Merchant Monitoring Resource Center offers essential information on the most frequently asked questions around the most important topics in payments risk and compliance.
Reach Your Growth Goals While Staying Compliant
Find out how LegitScript's advanced technology, robust data sets, and human expertise make us the leader in merchant risk mitigation.
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