Your chargeback ratio determines your merchant account health. Learn what ratios are acceptable, how to calculate yours, and strategies for keeping chargebacks under control.
Your chargeback ratio is the single most important metric for merchant account health. Exceeding card network thresholds can trigger fines, increased reserves, or account termination.
Chargeback ratio = (Number of chargebacks in a month) ÷ (Number of transactions in that month) × 100
"Visa and Mastercard consider 1% chargeback ratio the threshold for excessive chargebacks."
Consequences escalate: warning letter → increased reserves → higher fees → placement in monitoring program → account termination.
Chargebacks affect your ratio for 12 months. However, individual chargeback incidents may be visible to processors for longer.
Yes, through the representment process. Success rates vary by reason code. Fraud-related chargebacks have ~40% win rates; friendly fraud has ~20% win rates.
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