Safety & Transparency for the Commercial Internet
LegitScript’s AI-powered merchant and market intelligence platform – combined with the industry’s largest team of regulatory experts – helps internet platforms, e-commerce marketplaces, and payments companies evaluate, mitigate, and manage third-party risk.

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Avidia Bank

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West America Bank

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Amazon

Meta

Microsoft

Shopify

North American Bankcard

Flutterwave

Shift

Avidia Bank

Stax

West America Bank

Zoho


Amazon

Meta

Microsoft

Shopify

North American Bankcard
Merchant Onboarding
Powered by Xray, our new AI Risk Intelligence Platform
Maximize efficiency and reduce merchant time-to-processing with rapid risk insights.
Be the first to know about onboarding risk with:
Content Scan - Detect potential card network violations and other business risks
Merchant Match - Match against our vast universe of merchant risk data
MCC Detection - Identify the correct merchant category code in seconds
KYB Checks - Retrieve business lookup, adverse media, watchlist info, and more
Enhanced Usability - Access screenshots, real-time alerts, and a unified API
Merchant Risk Solutions
Assess and manage merchant risk, including transaction laundering, to grow with confidence and reduce fine exposure throughout the merchant life cycle.
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 Risk Solutions Resource Center offers essential information on the most frequently asked questions around the most important topics in payments risk and compliance.
Platform Risk Solutions
Uncover hard-to-detect violations in ads, product listings, and user-generated content to protect your platform and enable enforcement.
Ad Monitoring
Quickly identify and remove violative paid advertisements to safely grow advertising platform revenue.
Marketplace Monitoring
Detect prohibited or risky product listings to protect your brand and make your marketplace a safer place to buy and sell.
Solution Brief
Learn why the world's largest search engines, online marketplaces, and social media platforms trust LegitScript.
Industry Intelligence Products
Leverage the world’s most robust risk data and subject matter expertise to navigate regulatory changes and stay ahead of emerging threats.
Risk Landscape Reports
Gain expert insights into emerging high-risk trends to safeguard your business and stay ahead of threats.
Data Lookups
Access the premier source for risk information about healthcare products and websites to power your risk and compliance workflows.
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Merchant Onboarding in the Age of AI: Key Takeaways from the LegitScript Webinar
In this LegitScript-hosted webinar, expert panelists offered a pragmatic look at how artificial intelligence is reshaping the future of merchant onboarding and underwriting, and how to adapt without compromising speed or security. Read our key takeaways from the talk.
LegitScript Announces Marketplace Risk Benchmarking Research Program, Providing Clients with Competitive Industry Insights
LegitScript announced a benchmarking program for its e-commerce Marketplace clients to assess risk in key categories, compare their risk mitigation efforts against industry leaders, and make informed decisions around policy and growth. Read more.
Smarter Onboarding for Payments Leaders
In this in-depth guide, you’ll learn how payment service providers, ISOs, and acquiring banks can modernize their merchant onboarding workflows to reduce fraud, speed up approvals, and maintain compliance in a rapidly evolving landscape.
Shielding Transactions: AI’s Role in Managing Digital Payment Risk Control
As artificial intelligence becomes more powerful, fraudsters are leveraging it to generate synthetic identities, automate malicious merchant onboarding, and execute transaction laundering schemes. LegitScript’s Andy Vrabel helps explains how to combat these evolving threats in an article in Techstrong.ai. Read it now.
Merchant Onboarding: Frequently Asked Questions
Learn key insights on merchant onboarding: KYB, risk checks, AI automation, MCC accuracy, and best practices to streamline and stay compliant.
Online Abortion Pill Sales: Navigating Regulations and Problematic Activity
A patchwork of laws regarding online abortion pill sales, combined with the spread of illegal and unapproved drugs, has made online access extremely difficult to navigate. In this webinar, you’ll learn about the complex environment of online abortion pill sales and the problematic activity surrounding it.
LegitScript Strengthens Executive Team Amid Surging Demand for AI-Powered Merchant and Platform Risk Management Solutions
New appointments mark a milestone in LegitScript’s growth trajectory, bringing together seasoned leaders with deep expertise across technology, fintech, and compliance. Meet the new executives.
Digital Risk Management and Compliance Monitoring
“Last year, LegitScript saved clients $1.60 billion in potential card network fines. … Because it monitors merchants, their ads, listings and other user-generated content, it can provide a full perspective on activity across the internet.” Read more from the April 2025 feature in the Nilson Report.
Merchant Onboarding Best Practices for an AI-Powered Future
With changing technology making risk more complex, it’s not enough to rely on the same old onboarding processes. Payment service providers looking to stay competitive are investing in new, adaptable tools that can balance speed with accuracy and can evolve as the risk landscape changes.
Tainted Nutraceuticals: Hidden Ingredients, Real Risks
Merchants are facing increasing scrutiny for selling nutraceuticals tainted with harmful ingredients, which poses a challenge to payment processors trying to keep their portfolios free of dangerous products. Keep reading to learn more about the latest problematic products.
The ABCs of Onboarding KPIs
As artificial intelligence tools stream into the acquiring industry, the demand for an expedient and accurate onboarding procedure is intensifying, just as the number of payment facilitators and payment service providers courting merchants are, too.
Is Kava Legal and Safe? What Merchants and Payment Providers Should Know
As consumers seek natural products with the same efficacy as prescription medications, they may quickly find themselves trying to navigate a landscape of inconsistent regulations and potentially misleading marketing. Among these alternative products is kava — a popular elixir with complicated regulations.
Inside the Minds of Serial Transaction Launderers: How They Evade Detection and What You Can Do About It
Transaction laundering isn’t just an occasional headache—it’s an evolving, persistent threat to payment ecosystems. In our latest webinar, LegitScript dove deep into the world of serial transaction launderers: how they operate, why they reoffend, and what risk teams need to know to catch them.
Fight AI with AI: Building a Resilient Merchant Risk Management Program Facilitates Growth
While the payment processing industry has many safeguards to stop bad actors, advancements in technology — specifically in artificial intelligence — is making this increasingly difficult. Learn how to manage this new risk.
Building Consumer Trust: Essential Compliance, Marketing, and Safety Measures for Medical Spas
It only takes a few bad actors to make consumers question the safety of an industry. Multiple high-profile incidents have damaged the reputation of medical spas, highlighting the need for these facilities to follow best practices and demonstrate credibility.
Advertising for Recovery: A Policy Shift in Canadian Addiction Treatment
LegitScript-certified addiction treatment providers in Canada can now advertise on Google. Learn more about the policy change and how it is helping some of the country’s most vulnerable find the treatment they need.
LegitScript Certification for Telemedicine Businesses Now Recognized by Google in Indonesia and the Philippines
The expansion of LegitScript’s telehealth certification program to the two most populous ASEAN countries aligns with a recent policy change from Google. Learn more.
Telemedicine Compliance: Key Considerations for Payment Service Providers
Telehealth presents an attractive opportunity for payment service providers looking to grow their merchant portfolios, but it is also complex and highly regulated. Learn about the key areas of compliance critical to safely onboarding these merchants.
IDC Spotlight: Leveraging AI to Optimize Merchant Risk Management
In this IDC Spotlight, sponsored by LegitScript, discover how AI and machine learning are revolutionizing merchant risk management in payments. Learn about fraud prevention, compliance, and automated risk assessments to enhance security and efficiency.
Battling the Rise of Piracy and Counterfeits in Payments: Top Risks for IP Infringement in 2025 and Beyond
Intellectual property infringement is one of the most challenging problems in e-commerce due to the complexities of identifying and stopping infringing products and services. However, payment service providers and others who work with merchants can take measures to identify and prevent these illegal activities if they clearly understand the risks and trends in illicit IP. Learn more.