Novalnet protects your business against payment fraud and defaults but also maximizes your acceptance rates by offering you a complete suite of highly effective tools and dedicated expertise to help you manage and optimize fraud prevention practices. Fraud solutions are modular and built directly into the payment flow, allowing you to select and combine individual modules that best fit your needs.
Novalnet’s comprehensive fraud management solution contains sophisticated technologies to detect and prevent fraudulent transactions in real time by using a global, cross-industry network of data.
Our dedicated Fraud Managers will work with you to assess your company’s risk appetite and configure a tailored risk solution, aligning with your business requirements.
We rely on the latest and most advanced technologies such as:
Our advanced tools and team of experts, will empower businesses by reducing fraud and operational costs, while ensuring profitability and higher conversion rates.
All available fraud checks are built into the Novalnet payment process, depending on the requirements of the different payment methods. These fraud checks can be enabled or disabled in the Novalnet administration portal for each of your projects.
Novalnet offers two different fraud modules, “PIN by Callback” and “PIN by SMS”, are integrated into the payment flow and can be activated or deactivated during checkout process. It functions similar to the TAN verification offered by banks.
You can check your customer’s credit rating in real time before approving orders, so that customers with low creditworthiness are offered secure payment methods to minimize payment defaults. The fraud modules can be combined and tailored to your needs to ramp up sales and profitability.
Few of the fraud prevention tools can also be configured externally before the payment process, depending on your business requirements.
The fraud modules are already integrated in the Novalnet payment plugins and can be easily configured thanks to the self-explanatory menu navigation and user interface.
Novalnet’s comprehensive fraud management solution contains sophisticated technologies to detect and prevent fraudulent transactions in real time by using a global, cross-industry network of data. Our dedicated Fraud Managers will work with you to assess your company’s risk appetite and configure a tailored risk solution, aligning with your business requirements. We rely on the latest and most advanced technologies such as: Device Fingerprinting Behavioral Analytics Advanced IP Geolocation Tracking Cross-Merchant and Sector Intelligence Dynamic 3D Secure 2.0 Industry Specific Risk Profiles Automated chargeback management Case Management Our advanced tools and team of experts, will empower businesses by reducing fraud and operational costs, while ensuring profitability and higher conversion rates.
The blacklist check queries our internal database to see if the buyer is already blacklisted in our system. In case a fraud is being attempted, the transaction will be blocked, the incident recorded and both the merchant and the identity theft victim will be notified about any data misuse.
E-mail addresses are validated based on whether it complies with RFC 822 specifications. We will not be able to verify the delivery status of an email address though. If a customer demands, we have the option to set filters to block out spam domains.
This check declines transaction from buyers with pending claims listed in our debt collection database. Also this check validates the buyer against all debt collection entries from the entire customer base of Novalnet.
Credit cards use Luhn algorithm (also known as modulus 10 or mod 10 algorithm), to distinguish valid numbers from mistyped or otherwise incorrect numbers. Using this algorithm, we validate credit card numbers (ranges between 13 and 19) to protect against accidental and/or human errors. CVC codes are also checked before sending card details for authorization
Prevents unintentional duplicate registrations and transactions from the same buyer, eliminating additional expenses through double bookings and resulting refunds chargebacks/return debits costs. This check matches names, email addresses and bank or credit card details. Duration of the block can be set in seconds (recommended time frame is 60 seconds) as required by the customers.
This check prevents duplicate subscriptions by verifying whether an active subscription already exist by matching user’s first name, family name, e-mail address and bank or credit card data.
The session check verifies if any successful transaction has been made during the active session. If a successful transaction has been processed, then there will not be any further transactions allowed with the same session.
This modules blocks IP addresses after a set number of invalid attempts of buyer within a set timeframe, defined by customer at Novalnet backend. (number of attempts could be 3 and timeframe could be from 30 minutes to a maximum of 24 hours). Even if a fraudulent buyer attempts transactions using different payment data, the customer is protected with the help of the many fraud prevention modules activated.
Limit check allows customers to predefine purchase limits for buyers in web shops, which cannot be exceeded within a set period of time. The limit check allows customers to define the maximum limit and the period. This check minimizes payment failures and restricts fraudsters.
Validates buyers by checking against acdc (account check direct control), a data pool containing buyer details such as return debit quotes, negative listings of bank accounts. This serves as an extra layer to protect against return debits, bad debts and related financial loss.
Buyers receive a 4-digit PIN on their mobile or landline number via a callback and they should enter this PIN to complete the transaction/purchases. This helps to confirm the identity of buyers in real-time.
Buyers will receive a 4-digit PIN via SMS on their mobile phones and they should enter this PIN to complete the transaction/purchases. This helps to confirm the identity of buyers in real-time.
IP Country block, also known as Geo-blocking, helps block transactions from specific countries. This allows Customers to restrict transactions originating in countries where they do not deliver or due to known higher fraud rates.
Verifies the bank account details of buyers in real time and determines whether the combination of IBAN/bank accounts and bank codes of the respective countries are valid.
To comply with SEPA regulations, customers should inform buyers in advance when and how much will be debited from their bank account. This notification gives buyers enough time to ensure sufficient funds in their bank accounts. SEPA pre-notification SMS is sent to buyers without a valid email address.
Postal addresses within germany are validated in real-time against authoritative databases. If the address given matches the address in the official database, the address is passed as real and valid.
Compares and validates the IP addresses and BINs (Bank Identification Number) of buyers. Customers have the option to reject transactions originating from a country different from where the credit/debit cards are issued.
Provides reliable assessment in terms of risk of payment defaults in real time through various information and data pools listed below. Activating this tool significantly reduces return debit rates
Provides reliable assessment in terms of the risk of payment defaults from buyers (private individuals & organisations) in real time through various information and data pools listed below. Activating this tool significantly reduces return debit rates
Provides reliable assessment in terms of the risk of payment defaults from buyers in real time through various information and data pools listed below. Activating this tool significantly reduces return debit rates
This check controls and compares the buyer country of origin and the country of origin of the card- issuing bank. The first numbers of the BIN refer to the country’s credit card-issuing bank (Issuer). Should the buyer is for example from Germany and the credit card belongs to America, then the transaction will be rejected as per the merchants’ preference. Through this, the merchant can define to filter particular countries and their cards
Allows only a set number of transaction attempts by a buyer within a period of time predefined by customer.
This tool accesses Deltavista negative database along with Bürgel negative database, in real time to validate transactions. This combination significantly increases the score quality and value, resulting in fewer non-payments and increase in turnover.
Sort Codes and bank account numbers in the U.K and Ireland are validated in real time using specific mathematical algorithms to verify if an account number has been correctly entered. Also a second layer of validation is performed by searching for the existence of sort codes in the Sort Codes Directory issued by BACS.
Activates 3D Secure process based on the filters and settings configured by customers .The transaction will be routed to authenticate via 3DSecure only if the predefined conditions triggers to do so; otherwise, it will be processed as a non-3D Secure transaction.
Verifies and determines the identity and address details of buyers in real time. This includes examining the accuracy of address and identification quality by triggering the following checks:
Provides reliable assessment in terms of the risk of payment defaults from buyers in real time through various information and data pools listed below. Activating this tool significantly reduces return debit rates
Validates VAT identification numbers issued by any EU Member States (VIES database).
Offers a consolidated sanction list review (EU), listing all persons, organisations and companies that are subject to financial sanctions by the EU. Activating this tool will allow customers to look for any anomalies based on the data used during transactions. If the data is flagged, the transaction will be rejected.
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