FOR MERCHANTS WHO ACCEPT CARD PAYMENTS

Stop losing revenue to chargebacks.

Protect the payment. Document the value. Automate the defense. ChargeSecured builds evidence at checkout and defends it automatically when a dispute lands.

Merchant Protection Payment Intelligence Automated Dispute Defense PATENT PENDING

Uncover the hidden costs
of chargebacks.

The reversed sale is the part you see. The fees, the delivered goods, and the staff hours are the part you don't.

Merchant losses to chargebacks, this year
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Chargebacks per month40
Average order value$60
Transactions per month10,000
Recovery scenario60%

You set this. ChargeSecured does not guarantee a win rate — move the slider to model outcomes you consider realistic for your business.

Your annual exposure

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Total annual cost of chargebacks: the reversed sale plus $128 in combined fees and internal cost per case.

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Time absorbed handling disputes, at the $82 average internal cost per case and a $40/hour blended rate.

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Exposure addressed at the recovery scenario you selected, against $0 per year in ChargeSecured fees.

Cost inputs: $128 combined cost per chargeback and $82 average internal cost per chargeback (Mastercard & Javelin, Chargebacks: The Case for Coordination, 2026; Mastercard, True Cost of a Chargeback, 2025). ChargeSecured fees calculated at $1 per protected transaction. The hourly rate and recovery scenario are your assumptions, not reported figures. Illustrative only — not a forecast of results.

ChargeSecured LLC is not a bank, payment processor, insurer, or law firm, and nothing here is legal advice. Chargeback outcomes are determined by card issuers and networks; no win rate or recovery is guaranteed.

THE PROBLEM

Post-purchase theft is a growing merchant loss.

A legitimate purchase becomes a dispute after the buyer has already walked away with the value. Your customer buys with a valid card, receives the goods or service, then disputes the charge weeks later — and keeps both. The bank sides with them. You lose the sale, the product, the labor, and the fees.

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of chargebacks are reported as fraudulent — a growing share of that is first-party (friendly) fraud, not stolen cards.
Source: Mastercard, Scaling Efforts to Combat Friendly Fraud (2025)
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of consumers have disputed a charge they later realized was actually legitimate — the definition of first-party misuse.
Source: Mastercard & Datos Insights, First-Party Fraud Research (2025)
Retail, restaurants, hotels · E-commerce & digital goods · Services & subscriptions · Travel, events, ticketing · Nightlife, luxury, high-touch — if a card touches your business, chargebacks are already priced into your losses. ChargeSecured takes that back.
THE DISTINCTION

Not every dispute is the same — but they all cost you.

ChargeSecured helps you separate genuine unauthorized activity from first-party misuse, confusion, and abusive claims.

Actual fraud

Stolen card credentials or a compromised account. The true cardholder did not authorize the transaction. Objective: identify and stop risk before approval.

Post-purchase theft

A legitimate buyer or household user makes or receives the purchase, then disputes it after value has been delivered. Objective: document authorization, receipt, and fulfillment.

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~ the share of all disputes attributable to first-party (friendly) fraud, according to merchants and issuers.
Source: Mastercard & Javelin Research (2025)
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of merchants report rising first-party misuse; a quarter report increases of 25%+.
THE ALTERNATIVES

Every merchant already has a chargeback strategy — usually a bad one.

There are three ways most businesses handle disputes today. All three lose money in a different way.

Absorb the loss

Cheapest until it isn't. Losses compound month over month, and excess dispute ratios can quietly raise your effective processing cost.

Build an in-house team

Requires staff, tooling, deadline tracking, and evidence retrieval across POS, delivery, and CS platforms — and still only defends after the loss.

Bolt on a standalone vendor

Represents disputes after they land but doesn't change what happens at the point of sale. Your evidence is only as good as what your systems already captured.

ChargeSecured is the only approach that builds evidence at the moment of sale and defends automatically when the dispute lands — prevention and representment, in one system, without asking your team to change how they work.
WHAT IT COSTS YOU

Every chargeback is a triple loss: revenue, product, and standing.

Independent industry analysis puts the average all-in cost per chargeback at $128 — before you factor in the merchandise you already handed over.

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Average internal cost per chargeback — staff time, investigation, systems.
Mastercard & Javelin, Chargebacks: The Case for Coordination (2026)
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Average third-party fees per chargeback — network and processor charges.
Mastercard & Javelin (2026)
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Combined cost per chargeback — before you count the lost goods or service.
Mastercard, True Cost of a Chargeback (2025)
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Internal cost at merchants doing $1B+ in annual revenue — nearly 2x the average.
Mastercard & Datos Insights, State of Chargebacks (2025)
WHY NOW

Chargebacks are growing faster than transactions.

Between 2025 and 2028, global chargeback volume is projected to grow 24% — while overall card-transaction growth is meaningfully slower. (Estimates & projections, not actual results.)

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Million global chargebacks, 2025
Mastercard & Datos Insights (2025)
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Million projected chargebacks by 2028
Mastercard & Datos Insights (2025)
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Chargeback growth 2025→2028 — faster than card-transaction growth
Mastercard, 2025 Global Chargebacks Outlook
15% → 36%
First-party misuse share of fraud losses, three-year growth — the fastest-growing fraud vector
LexisNexis Risk Solutions, True Cost of Fraud Study (2025)
Consumers have learned the system: file a dispute in an app, get an instant provisional refund, keep the goods. Merchants are the last stop in the chain and absorb the loss.
HOW IT WORKS

Protection built into the moment of sale — not after the fact.

ChargeSecured runs alongside your existing checkout. Explore the layers below — protection points, proof of receipt, and automated defense each have their own detail.

1

Risk context

Identify the transaction profile and apply the right protection level automatically at the terminal.

2

Clear disclosure

Merchant name, itemized items, price, and terms shown unmistakably to the buyer before tap or swipe.

3

Acknowledgement

Confirm the buyer authorized the charge and understood what they were buying.

4

Verification

Step-up authentication — ID match, signature, face — applied where warranted.

5

Evidence record

Complete, timestamped transaction story preserved for future dispute defense.

The goal is not friction. It's targeted protection applied exactly where the merchant has the most to lose — captured in the moments the customer is already paying attention. Most transactions flow through untouched.

Cardholder

Authorization context linked to the account

Purchase

Itemized items and amount at time of sale

Understanding

Terms disclosed and acknowledged

Fulfillment

Delivery, pickup, access, or service confirmed

Recipient

Who received the value, on-site or online

Example — a real dispute type that would fail against ChargeSecured: an $8,329.29 close bound to a $4,000 pre-set minimum spend, with terminal-captured signature and ID match. That single record closes off "not me," "double charged," "didn't authorize," and "service not provided" — the four claim types that cost merchants the most.

1. Dispute alert

Issuer files a claim.

2. Retrieve evidence

System pulls the transaction record.

3. Map to claim

Evidence matched to the specific reason code.

4. Organize case

Package assembled automatically.

5. Merchant-ready response

Ready to review and submit.

Payments

Accept transactions across in-person, online, and mobile channels.

Checkout flows

Evidence-capture logic embedded at the moment of sale.

Proof of receipt

Five-pillar transaction record built automatically.

Hardware

Terminal software for signature, ID, and face verification.

Dispute response

Auto-triggered representment package when a claim is filed.

When a dispute lands, your response is already built — no scrambling for receipts, delivery logs, camera footage, or POS records. Your staff stays focused on running the business.
THE OUTCOME

Fewer chargebacks. Higher win rates. Less time spent on disputes.

Every category is exposed. ChargeSecured is horizontal by design — the same evidence engine works from a $10 charge to a $10,000 charge.

What ChargeSecured delivers

Fewer disputes filed — clear disclosure and acknowledgement at checkout closes off the easy claims.

Higher win rate — a complete evidence package strengthens representment outcomes on the disputes that do land.

Recovered staff time — auto-built response packages replace hours of manual investigation per case.

Protected standing — keeping dispute ratios low protects your ability to accept cards.

One system — payments, evidence, hardware, and defense in one place, not four vendors.

Average chargeback amount by industry

Travel & hospitality$120
High-risk categories$99
Retail$84
Digital goods$77
Subscription services$69
U.S. average (all industries)$110
Source: Mastercard & Datos Insights, 2025 State of Chargebacks
PRICING

$1 per transaction, plus credit card processing. No lock-in.

One flat $1 per protected transaction, plus your credit card processing. Every dispute we prevent or win is pure recovery against a fixed, predictable cost.

CHARGESECURED PROTECTION
$1 / protected transaction
+ credit card processing

One flat rate. Every protected transaction gets the full evidence stack, dispute-response automation, and hardware verification stack.

CREDIT CARD PROCESSING

Credit card processing is billed in addition to the $1, at cost. No markup, no interchange skimming, no hidden take.

Why the math works for you

You already lose $128 in combined cost on every chargeback — before the ticket value. $1 to prevent it is not a decision. (Mastercard, 2025)

Processing is passed through at cost — you keep the economics you already negotiated.

No SaaS platform fee, no seat cost, no minimum — you only pay when we protect a transaction.

A merchant processing 10,000 transactions/month at a 0.5% dispute rate spends ~$10,000/mo on ChargeSecured to protect against ~$6,400/mo in raw chargeback fees — before recovering lost sales, prevented disputes, and staff time.
HOW YOU GET STARTED

Live in weeks, not quarters. Nothing to rip out.

ChargeSecured plugs into your current processor, checkout, and dispute workflow — without disrupting operations.

1

Assessment

Review your terminals, checkout, dispute volume, and merchant categories. 1–2 days.

2

Configuration

Configure risk rules, verification thresholds, and evidence capture for your business. 1 week.

3

Implementation

Install terminals, integrate the checkout SDK, and turn on protected transactions. 2–4 weeks.

4

Full deployment

Scale to full volume. Ongoing monitoring, tuning, and dispute defense included.

WHO'S BUILDING THIS

A team focused on one thing: giving merchants their money back.

HM

Harrison Moffett — Founder & CEO

Firsthand operator experience with the merchant-side chargeback problem. Former Chief Revenue Officer at Speakeasy, a curated experiences and hospitality-commerce platform — now building the merchant-protection infrastructure the industry has never had.

CC

Cortland Coleman — Founder & COO

Direct merchant-side experience from private clubs, luxury hospitality, and high-ticket service businesses. Owns merchant partnerships, strategic relationships, and commercial rollout at ChargeSecured.

Protect the payment. Document the value. Automate the defense.

The merchant-protection layer for modern payments.

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