Merchant Risk Solutions
Confidently assess merchant risk of every type, including transaction laundering, to better avoid fines and expand growth opportunities.
Shopify
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.
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.
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.
What Makes LegitScript Different?
We help acquirers, payment facilitators, and ISOs maintain a comprehensive view of risk throughout a merchant's life cycle so they can stay compliant in high-risk environments and grow their business.
Vast Monitoring Capabilities
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. Our team tailors our monitoring based on your policies and needs.
Expert Transaction Laundering Detection
LegitScript uses decades of historical merchant data combined with investigative experts to research suspicious activity and confirm fraud so that you don’t have to. And, we include our Transaction Laundering Detection standard with our Merchant Monitoring solution.
Unparalleled Accuracy and Expertise
Some solutions run your merchant websites through software and let 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 for you.
A Recognized Leader in Merchant Risk Mitigation
LegitScript is a recognized Mastercard Merchant Monitoring Service Provider. Our certification and monitoring programs are recommended, recognized, or used by Visa, Mastercard, and some of the world's largest payment service providers.
Resources for You
Merchant Onboarding and Merchant Monitoring Fact Sheet
Merchant Onboarding
Fact Sheet
Merchant Monitoring
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Merchant Risk Solutions
Merchant Onboarding
Get fully integrated KYB checks paired with LegitScript’s unique merchant risk assessments to accurate and quickly vet new merchants.
Merchant Monitoring
Confidently assess merchant risk of every type, including transaction laundering, to better avoid fines and expand growth opportunities.
Key Capabilities
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
Counterfeits and illicit IP
Weapons
Adult and human trafficking
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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Regulatory bodies
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Countries
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High-risk areas
Fact Sheet
Learn about our core features and why you should choose LegitScript.
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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