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When a buyer disputes a payment

What a chargeback is, where it is handled, and what Paysana can and cannot do about it.

Running your business 2 min read 4 steps

A dispute — or chargeback — is a buyer asking their bank to reverse a payment. It is worth understanding the shape of this before it happens to you, because the deadlines are short and missing one loses the money automatically.

1

It happens in your gateway, not in Paysana

Buyers pay into your own gateway account — Paysana never holds your money. So a dispute is between you and your provider. We list them on your Disputes page so you find out quickly, but the evidence is submitted in your provider dashboard, on their deadline.

2

We email you the moment one opens

Once, with the amount, the reason the buyer gave and the date you have to respond by. We send it because the window is short and you may not open Paysana that week.

3

Gather your evidence

What convinces a bank is boring and specific: proof of delivery, the buyer own messages, your refund policy as it stood on the day, the order and the receipt. Your order page has the address, tracking and timeline; export what you need.

4

Submit it in your provider dashboard

That is the only place it counts. Once the bank decides, the outcome appears on your Disputes page as won or lost.

Worth knowing

  • Only some gateways tell us about disputes. Stripe and PayPal do; several bank-transfer providers have no dispute feed at all, so those chargebacks reach you directly from your provider and never appear here. Your Disputes page names which of your own gateways can report.
  • The cheapest chargeback is the one that never happens: a clear business name on the statement, a receipt that arrives immediately, and a refund policy people can find prevent most of them.

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