Preventing Fraud When Providing Intangible Services/Goods

Fraud Awareness Week
Fraud is prevalent in all Internet transactions, especially when the product is intangible. We have been in this industry long enough to see significant growth and development. We have also been here to see the growth and development of fraudulent activity. We would like to remind you that it is important to utilize 2Checkout’s fraud review. We have the advantage of state-of-the-art software and a knowledgeable staff with 35 years collective experience. In addition to our fraud review, we encourage you to utilize the information made available to you in the vendor administration area. We would like to give you some tips on how to recognize legitimate orders while preventing fraud.

While it is important to mitigate fraud, you want to be sure that you are not inadvertently denying legitimate business. With the current credit card system in place, we are not as protected as a traditional retailer is. Because we are working in a “Card Not Present” environment, chargebacks will occur. We have found on average, 12% of your orders may appear to be suspicious, but only 1% will end up being fraudulent. It is very important that you don’t insult the 11% legitimate customers just to catch the 1% fraudulent customers. While working with digital products, losses are less formidable because there are no shipping fees and no items to be lost. The following information will help you to differentiate between legitimate customers and fraudsters.

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My customers aren’t being charged shipping. Why not?

If you are using our Plug n’ Play cart, there are two main issues that could cause your customers not to be charged shipping on orders placed.

Your Products are Set up as ‘Intangible’:

When you set up your products in our database, you have the option of indicating whether they are tangible (a physical product that will be shipped or otherwise delivered offline) or intangible (a good that will be delivered by download or electronically). If your product(s) are set up as intangible, shipping charges will not be applied because the system thinks your products won’t be shipped.

To check this in the 2CO Classic Sellers Area (V2):

1. Login to your 2CO account.
2. Click on ‘Shipping Methods’.
3. If you see a message that says ‘You have no shipping methods’, then your shipping methods have not been set up and this is why no charges are applied to orders.
4. Click the button to set up shipping methods for your account to rectify this problem.

To check this in our New (VA) Vendor Sellers Area please login at the following url: https://www.2checkout.com/va/
Once you have logged in click the ‘Shipping’ tab and then select the ‘List’ subcategory. If no shipping methods are listed click the ‘Add New Shipping Method’ link to rectify this problem.

If you are using a third-party cart, the 2CO software does not compute shipping. This function is handled by your third-party cart. Please check the configuration of your cart to ensure that this is set up correctly.

If you have not setup any shipping methods and a customers attempts to order a product defined as tangible in our system they will receive the following error message:

No shipping available to your country

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