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High Wire ScreenFraud screening and dispute work on every checkout you run

Every payment is scored on device and behavior signals before it is authorized, including the checkouts you build yourself. When a dispute arrives anyway, the evidence is already gathered and the deadline is already tracked.

Scored before the authorization leaves.

Signals are collected on every checkout type, your rules run against them, and the payment takes one of four paths. The same rules apply on every processor you are boarded with, so behavior does not change when routing does.

signals

What we look at

  • Device fingerprintEvery session
  • Behavior in sessionTyping, paste, speed
  • Email and phone ageReputation
  • Card and BIN historyAcross the network
  • VelocityCard, device, address
  • Geo and IPMismatch scoring
your rules run
Applied on every processor
New rules in shadow mode first
Backtested on your own traffic
3D Secure where it lifts approval
SCA exemptions where allowed
Ratios watched against network programs
ApproveStraight through, no friction addedmost traffic
Step up3D Secure only where it raises approvalselective
ReviewQueued for a person, evidence attachedheld
DeclineReason recorded, ratio protectedblocked

Screening runs before the authorization, so a blocked payment never reaches your chargeback ratio.

Including the checkouts you build yourself.

Most providers screen their own hosted page well and leave your API integration exposed. The risk SDK sends the same device and behavior signals from your own interface, so one set of rules covers everything you sell through.

Checkout typeWhat runs on it
Hosted checkoutFull screening, 3D Secure, and device signals with nothing to build
Embedded componentsThe same rules, running inside your own page and your own styling
API checkoutDevice and behavior signals through the risk SDKYour interface is screened the same as ours
Wallets and local methodsScored per method, on the same rule set as cards
Subscriptions and rebillsRenewals scored separately from the first payment, so a good customer is not blocked at month four
Agentic checkoutAgent-initiated payments carry their own signals, limits, and mandate

Disputes arrive with the evidence already attached.

Alerts are worked before they become chargebacks where the network allows it. Anything that gets through is assembled into a representment with the order, the delivery proof, and the screening record from the original payment.

CaseStageAmount
Pre-dispute alert, refunded before it became a chargebackEthoca alert, resolved in 4 hours, ratio unaffectedResolved$148.00
Friendly fraud, delivery proof and AVS match attachedRepresentment filed with the screening record from authorizationFiled$1,240.00
Chargeback reversed after representmentFunds returned, ledger corrected, statement updatedWon$612.50
Subscription dispute, cancellation terms attachedSign-up record, terms accepted, and rebill notices includedFiled$89.00
Deadline in 3 days, evidence complete and awaiting sign-offOne approval left before it files automaticallyAction$2,015.00

Sample dispute queue

Losses down, approvals intact.

01Fraud stopped before it counts

Screening runs ahead of the authorization, so blocked attempts never touch the chargeback ratio that decides whether you stay boarded.

02Friction only where it pays

3D Secure is applied where it raises approval and skipped where an exemption applies, instead of being switched on for everyone.

03No missed deadlines

Every case carries its filing date. Evidence is assembled as the dispute arrives, not in the last few hours before the window closes.

04One rule set everywhere

The same rules run on hosted checkout, embedded components, and your own API integration, across every processor you use.

05Ratios you can watch

Chargeback and fraud ratios are tracked against the network program thresholds, with warning before you cross one rather than after.

06Rules you can test first

New rules run in shadow mode against live traffic and backtest against your history, so you see what a change would have blocked before it blocks anything.

See what your rules would have blocked.

New rules backtest against your own history and run in shadow mode before they decline anything.