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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.

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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

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.
Guide

Smarter Onboarding for Payments Leaders

Is your merchant onboarding keeping up with rapidly changes to risk and competition? Learn how to future-proof your onboarding with our guide.
Webinar

Merchant Onboarding Best Practices for an AI-Powered Future

With changing technology making risk more complex, it’s not enough to rely on the same old onboarding processes. Payment service providers looking to stay competitive are investing in new, adaptable tools that can balance speed with accuracy and can evolve as the risk landscape changes.
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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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