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Merchant Monitoring
LegitScript Merchant Monitoring helps you maintain a holistic view of your portfolio's risk so you can stay compliant in high-risk environments and grow your payment services business with confidence.
LegitScript has risk detection expertise in more than 60 high-risk areas, including pharmaceuticals, negative-option billing, drop-shipping, IP infringement, hate/harm content, and many more. We're also experts at identifying and stopping transaction laundering.
Yes, LegitScript is a recognized Merchant Monitoring Service Provider (MMSP) in the Merchant Monitoring Program (MMP) of the Mastercard Business Risk and Assessment Mitigation Program.
The service we provide to help our payments partners mitigate risk while growing revenue in high-risk industries is wholly different from the old legacy solutions you're used to.
Some solutions run your merchant websites through software and leave it to a computer to make inaccurate judgement calls.
With LegitScript, you get the speed of automation paired with the accuracy of expert analysts who review flagged merchants before sending the analysis to you, meaning you'll get effectively zero false positives and save hours of wasted time going through inaccurate merchant risk notifications.
LegitScript's certification and monitoring program is recommended, recognized, or used by Visa, Mastercard, and major payment service providers.
Yes. With our Merchant Monitoring program, we help our clients reduce the number of violations to functionally zero and have saved our clients an estimated millions of dollars in BRAM and VIRP fines.
Our program is global and spans more than 100 countries. Currently, our expert analysts are fluent in more than 18 languages.
LegitScript uses robust algorithms as a first step, and then we put those results in front of a team of experts who provide you with accurate analysis and effectively eliminate false positives.
Our monitoring is continuous, and risk checks are running on all merchants at least daily. Merchants are reported on an ongoing basis as we detect various risks.
Test buys to identify transaction laundering are included as part of our merchant monitoring solution. We routinely conduct test buys that can uncover key connections to merchants in your portfolio. If you are looking for a specific test buy plan, let us know and we can explore options to add to your base solution.
Pricing options include low annual fees or a per-merchant monthly price. Please contact us to learn more.
Yes! We're happy to provide private demos of our merchant monitoring solution. Contact us and we'll set up a time that works best for you and your team.
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