Stores, quick service, grocery, and everyday e-commerce: many transactions, modest tickets, few disputes. Protection here is a flat few cents a sale, and most sales pass through untouched.
Four claims this kind of merchant sees most, the way the issuer codes them, and what in the record addresses each. Every reason code.
Every band gets the full stack: the record, the automated response, terminal software, the portal, and processing at cost.
Find your bandThe record on the right is this merchant's sale from the flow demonstration, as it would be filed. The same five entries exist for every protected sale; only the verification steps differ by band and score. Times are illustrative.
Published cost figures applied to the scenario merchant above. Move the inputs on the pricing estimator to see your own.
18,000 transactions at a 0.3% dispute rate.
54 disputes × ($128 combined cost + $84 ticket), before the goods already shipped.
At $82 internal cost per case and a $40 blended hourly rate.
18,000 transactions × 3¢. Processing passes through at cost.
Cost inputs: $128 combined and $82 internal cost per chargeback (Mastercard, 2025; Mastercard and Javelin, 2026). Exposure = disputes × ($128 + average ticket). Illustrative, not a forecast; issuers decide dispute outcomes.
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