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Enterprise-Grade Fraud Prevention for Payments & Subscriptions

Protect yourself and your customers with advanced AI-powered and human-optimized fraud prevention to help block carding attacks and fraud. We track trillions of risk signals that feed elite fraud detection models making sure that your customers can buy without interruptions.

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Key Features & Benefits

AI-Driven Risk Scoring

Identify and block bad actors in real-time with AI models fueled with trillions of global commerce training data signals which stop fraud before it happens.

Smart 3D Secure (3DS)

Minimize friction, maximize conversion, and stay compliant with automatic triggers for 3DS authentication for high-risk transactions or in regions where required.

Automated chargeback reporting

Understand exactly where your chargeback threshold is, and what the most common products are that might cause chargebacks to ensure you can keep transacting.

Real-time risk webhooks

Instantly sync your platform with our engine to automatically revoke access or license keys the moment fraud is detected.

Proactive trial abuse prevention

Protect your margins from “trial hoppers” by identifying repeat users attempting to bypass subscription paywalls.

Granular Geo-Blocking

Mitigate regional risk by easily restricting orders from specific countries where fraud outweighs legitimate demand.

VIP Whitelisting

Ensure your largest customers purchase smoothly by whitelisting trusted buyers to bypass standard risk filters.

Custom risk rule logic

Work with FastSpring’s team to tailor security posture with specific thresholds that match your unique business model.

Fraud Prevention Key Benefits
merchant of record

FastSpring is more than just global payments. We’re your merchant of record.

FastSpring’s “merchant of record” model allows you to sell globally without the complexity of global commerce. When you monetize with FastSpring, we process your payments, manage your subscriptions, help prevent fraud, increase approval rates with local processing, keep you compliant, collect and remit sales taxes, and respond to any audits related to sales taxes or VAT — so you don’t have to.

Fraud Prevention

Why FastSpring’s Fraud Prevention is Different

Most fraud prevention systems fall into one of two categories: Icon
Most fraud prevention systems fall into one of two categories:
  1. Rules-Based Systems: Provide precise fraud control but require manual intervention.
  2. Black-Box Machine Learning Models: Continuously learn, but lack transparency and inadvertently block legitimate users.
FastSpring combines both in a managed ensemble model: Icon
FastSpring combines both in a managed ensemble model:
  • 100+ Customizable Fraud Rules for precision and adaptability.
  • AI-Powered Risk Decisioning that evolves with every transaction.
  • Trillions of global commerce signals used in training data.
  • 24/7 PayOps Oversight for real-time fraud prevention and rapid response.
FastSpring’s Managed Risk and Fraud Approach

FastSpring’s Managed Risk and Fraud Approach

Unlike traditional payment partners, FastSpring uses a managed fraud prevention model. For you, that means we take on a lot of the work for risk management and fraud prevention — so you don’t need to worry about self-managing chargeback rates, approvals in different countries, and more. FastSpring’s managed fraud prevention model includes:

Device-level Protections:

Velocity checks, CAPTCHA, and 3D Secure authentication prevent fraudulent transactions.

Platform-Level Risk Adjustments:

Custom data attributes like session language mismatches and user history refine fraud decisioning.

Processor-Level Fraud Alerts:

Direct integrations with global payment providers detect and respond to fraud in real-time.

Post-Processing and Dispute Resolution

Post-Processing and Dispute Resolution

Fraud prevention doesn’t stop at checkout. With FastSpring, we help you protect your revenue from fraud throughout the entire journey:

Chargeback Defense:

Delivers alerts to mitigate the impact of bad actors and protect your business.

Exception Data:

Enriches our models and protects your revenue.

Multiple Payment Providers:

Allows FastSpring to help prevent chargebacks by routing payments to the optimal provider.

Risk Agent Reviews:

Increases protection and oversight and refines machine learning decision making to improve fraud detection accuracy as the market evolves.

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