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WooCommerce fraud prevention plugins score incoming orders for fraud risk and help you block or review suspicious ones before you ship. Choose based on scoring quality, data ownership, explainability, review workflow, and price.

How to choose

• Real-time scoring — catch fraud before fulfillment.
• Explainability — white-box rules beat a black-box score you cannot audit.
• Data ownership — self-hosted keeps customer data on your server.
• Investigation tools — graph forensics and replay to tune safely.
• Price model — flat vs. per-transaction vs. revenue share.

When WPSentinel makes sense

Choose WPSentinel if you want self-hosted data, white-box rules you can read, graph forensics, and a free-to-start model (Pro €19.99/month excl. VAT). Verify any competitor pricing and features before relying on them. Install WPSentinel free.

A chargeback is a forced reversal of a card payment, initiated by the buyer’s bank. On WooCommerce, the most common cause is fraud: a stolen card is used, goods ship, and the real cardholder disputes the charge.

Step 1 — Score every order in real time

Score each order from device fingerprint, IP geolocation, VPN/TOR status, and email breach exposure. WPSentinel (free) does this live with no checkout friction, and shows which rule fired.

Step 2 — Investigate the borderline orders

Use graph forensics to pivot across the email, IP, device and address. Check that billing matches IP location and that the email is not freshly created or breached.

Step 3 — Accept or reject in one click

Accept to keep processing, reject to cancel and notify. Map risk bands to order status so it routes automatically.

Step 4 — Add prevention at checkout

Require CVV/AVS, enable 3-D Secure (SCA), and add velocity limits.

Step 5 — Tune safely with replay

Replay new rules against past sessions to cut fraud without blocking real buyers. Install WPSentinel free and see the risk on your next order.