Merchant Risk Solutions
Merchant Onboarding
AI-powered Risk Insights for Onboarding at Scale
Maximize your team's efficiency and reduce merchant time-to-processing with automated assessments that help you onboard merchants in minutes.
Are you prepared?
Changes to Mastercard’s Merchant Monitoring Program (MMP) go into effect January 1, 2026. Learn how LegitScript can help you respond quickly.
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Why Choose LegitScript Merchant Onboarding?
Vet merchants more quickly and confidently with AI-powered rapid risk insights that enhance your team’s onboarding workflow and enable your business growth.
Speed
Results are available in seconds or minutes, not hours or days.
Scale
Designed to be agile, our solution handles volume with ease so that your portfolio can grow.
Accuracy
High accuracy, screenshots, and data points such as confidence scores make clear where to automate or focus your team’s time.
Flexibility
Our solution is modular and available via both our user-friendly web portal and API with webhooks, making it easy to integrate within your workflows.
Resources for You
Merchant Risk Solutions
Fact Sheets and Solution Briefs
Merchant Onboarding Solution Brief
Merchant Monitoring Fact Sheet
Transaction Laundering Detection Solution Brief
Content Scan Fact Sheet
Merchant Match Fact Sheet
MCC Detection Fact Sheet
KYB Checks Fact Sheet
Merchant URL ID Solution Brief
Healthcare Merchant Certification:
Overview Solution Brief
RevShare Fact Sheet
Enterprise Partnership Fact Sheet
Application Process Solution Brief
Partner Program Overview
Industry Intelligence:
Risk Landscape Report Executive Summaries
Fentanyl and Related Precursors
Abortion Drugs
MGCDs
Content Scan
Leveraging cutting-edge AI, proprietary crawling technology, and risk data that our experts continuously update and curate, Content Scan scans merchant websites in real time to save your team time.
- Reduce manual website review by upwards of 95%.
- Flag BRAM and VIRP violations and other prohibited content.
- Stay audit-ready with downloadable screenshots.
Merchant Match
Fueled by one of the industry’s most accurate risk databases, Merchant Match compares merchant details against LegitScript’s expansive risk universe to uncover hidden ties to known bad actors.
- Identify connections beyond the merchant URL alone.
- Spot repeat offenders, such as serial transaction launderers.
- Understand each match with clear risk details.
MCC Detection
By automating merchant category code assignment, MCC Detection helps you save time, reduce manual effort, and minimize errors that can lead to fines or registration issues.
- Get accurate recommendations with supporting rationale.
- Catch miscoded or high-risk MCCs that require registration.
- Ensure compliant classification from the start.
KYB Checks
Streamlining Know Your Business due diligence, KYB Checks consolidate global business verification and risk screening into a single structured view, making it fast and efficient to validate legitimacy, uncover ownership, and assess reputational risk.
- Confirm business registration in 120+ countries.
- Verify US TINs (tax IDs) and view state filings.
- Screen for sanctions, adverse media, and contact-level risk.
Smarter Onboarding for Payments Leaders
Merchant Onboarding Best Practices for an AI-Powered Future
How Does Merchant Onboarding Help Your Team?
- Identify risk at the onset to make informed onboarding decisions.
- Gain valuable insight to the reasoning behind each risk assessment.
- Build a risk profile that sets the foundation for ongoing customer due diligence.
- Rapidly surface merchants with connections to violative activity that can increase card network fine exposure and violate your terms.
- Avoid onboarding a merchant connected to fraud or transaction laundering.
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