How To Get Off The Match List In The Easiest Way

 


Getting off from the match list is not easy it requires time and patients because the merchants in the match list due to the fraudulent or activity that brings the merchant into the match list. The match list has 14 reason codes and each code has a specific reason so, if any merchant has done anything that is in the codes of match list he or she will be in the match list. The merchants will come to know that they are on the list when they apply for opening a new merchant account. 

How to get off from the Match list?

Match list is developed by Mastercard and it is working as a database system. When an accruing bank of merchant terminate the merchant and if the reason behind the terminated merchant file is in the reason code of Mach list then according to the Mastercard the name of the merchant will be in the list for five years. Five years is not a short time but getting off from the list is not easy but the first thing that merchant can do is communicate with the bank that leads you in the match list if your communication skills satisfied them they can remove your name before five years but this method cannot work in each and every situation for instance if the merchant is in the list because of the fraud or illegal activity then get off from the match list is almost impossible so every merchant when come to know that his name in the match list the first thing that you should do find out the reason that brings you into the list because when you know the reason then you will make a strategy according to the reason. Mostly the banks entered the merchant into the match list because of the excessive chargebacks and if the merchant is in the list because of chargebacks then he can be easily getting off from the list by paying then the bank can remove the merchant from the list.

Another reason in the list is identity theft when merchants are on the list because of this reason then the bank will do an investigation and after which they want a correction. 

The strategy forgotten from the list depends on the reason code so, first, the merchant should see the 14 reasons and then start trying to remove their name from the match list. 

  • 01 Account Data Compromise 

  • 02 Common Point of Purchase

  • 03 Laundering

  • 04 Excessive Chargebacks

  • 05 Excessive Fraud

  • 06 Unused

  • 07 Fraud Conviction

  • 08 Mastercard Questionable Merchant Audit Program

  • 09 Bankruptcy/Liquidation/Insolvency

  • 10 Violation of Standards

  • 11 Merchant Collusion

  • 12 PCI-DSS Non-compliance

  • 13 Illegal Transactions

  • 14 Identity Theft

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