10 Shopify Fraud Prevention Apps to Easily Secure Your Store

October 2021 saw the launch of SEON’s own Shopify fraud detection app, which uses all of our best features to help merchants fortify their business with enterprise-grade software.

The robust scoring engine helps spot potential bad orders automatically, as well as uncover fraud patterns through flexible rules. Machine learning algorithms will continue to offer recommendations to improve these rulesets, based on your business requirements. 

SEON also scans 90+ digital and social signals in real-time to help verify that the person placing the order is who they say they are.

SEON Pricing

• For pricing, please contact our experts. Free version available with limited API calls.

Choose SEON If

• You want to stop fraud without incurring false positives so that you can complete more sales.

Founded by two former PayPal employees, Signifyd is an ecommerce-centric fraud prevention platform that looks to tackle the majority of the heavy lifting for merchants when it comes to anti-fraud. The firm is heavily focused on ecommerce, working with reputable brands such as Samsung, Philips, and Omega.

The platform focuses heavily on automation – a competitive advantage if your business handles masses of transactions. It also offers chargeback guarantees against Shopify fraud on approved orders that turn out to be fraudulent and item-not-received (INR) claims.

Signifyd Pricing

• Contact the sales team directly for a quote.

Choose Signifyd If

• You prefer a set-and-forget solution to your fraud concerns.

ClearSale helps over 6,000 merchants manage their risk and fraud levels across more than 160 countries. The company has offices in Brazil, the US, and Mexico. 

ClearSale combines machine learning technology with a large in-house analyst team that reviews transactions that have been flagged by the system, without the Shopify merchant’s input. 

It offers a chargeback guarantee and a proprietary protection scheme to balance business key performance indicators (KPIs) with what it delivers. This means that if targets are not met, your business will receive a discount. 

ClearSale Pricing

• Contact sales. 

Choose ClearSale If

• You value automation and want to receive discounts if it works against your KPIs and chargeback ratio.

Kount is a US-headquartered fraud prevention company with an AI network that is built on risk signals from over 32 billion annual interactions globally. Similar to ClearSale, the company has built its tech with ecommerce merchants in mind. 

The Kount Command product is available for Shopify merchants, automating the process of the approval or decline of orders based on the merchant’s requirements.

Kount Pricing

• Contact sales. 

Choose Kount If

• You run a US-based or Latin America-based store and would appreciate a chargeback guarantee model.

Another enterprise-grade fraud detection solution is Sift, which works with companies including Wayfair, StitchFix, Harry’s, and Everlane.

All customer data, from account creation to login and the order itself, is automatically sent to Sift, which then analyzes the data provided with its machine learning technology and insight from its own proprietary global data networks.

With added insights from Sift’s global data network, the company’s machine learning models deliver accurate risk assessments with the aim of enabling Shopify merchants to confidently block and accept orders or route cases to manual review based on their individual business processes and priorities.

Sift Pricing

• No pricing information is available online for Sift.

Choose Sift If

• You’re an established Shopify merchant who needs a convenient platform to manage disputes.

NoFraud is a Shopify-centric company that offers a fully automated product that is managed in-house, with no input from the merchants. 

Transactions are sent to NoFraud once an order has been placed, and it then provides a basic actionable response with no risk score – just a pass or fail metric from NoFraud’s side. 

Users can manually review orders that are deemed a “failure” but can also automatically cancel the order – which could lead to an increase in false positives. 

NoFraud Pricing

• You pay only for orders NoFraud approves.

Choose NoFraud If

• You want a solution built with Shopify in mind by a vendor who manages it for you.

FraudLabs Pro supports merchants in identifying high-risk transactions and reducing chargeback with its free-to-use fraud screening process.

The company automatically flags any orders it deems high risk and automatically emails the customer if their order was canceled. This creates a type of due diligence but also gives the customer an opportunity to walk away from the business, which is not ideal. 

Their fraud prevention module also supports an SMS verification add-on to authenticate the purchaser’s identity for the merchants.

FraudLabs Pro Pricing

• Tier-based pricing ranges from 500 queries per month for free and up to 500,000 queries per month for $1,249.95.

Choose FraudLabs If

• You want fraud prevention with 2FA integration built-in.

Sometimes, you want to understand the reasons behind your chargebacks, dispute them, and win them yourself. But for some Shopify store owners, it’s also worth paying a bit more to let someone else deal with the headache.

This is precisely what Chargeflow is designed to do. This app is completely automated and integrates seamlessly with your Shopify store, so you can set and forget it. It will identify chargebacks, give you a full dashboard to analyze chargebacks from multiple payment providers, and assist you with disputes. 

Bonus points: Chargeflow integrates with other third-party tools, including SEON Fraud Protection, AfterPay, Braintree, and more. 

Chargeflow Pricing:

• It’s free to install. You’ll be charged a 25% fee for every successfully recovered chargeback. 

Choose Chargeflow If

• You want a set-and-forget approach to dealing with chargebacks, and you don’t mind paying 25% to recover your losses.

Another solution designed to work straight out of the box and with a set-and-forget approach is FraudBlock. The idea is simple: you install the app, and FraudBlock will automatically cancel high-risk orders. 

What FraudBlock deems high risk, however, isn’t manually customizable. You won’t have access to many options to calculate the risk score, but you can consider it an extra layer of protection that saves you from accidentally fulfilling fraudulent orders.

FraudBlock has a completely free plan for 30 orders or fewer per month, and the paid plans are affordable, starting at $4.95 (for 200 orders) all the way to $29.95 for 500 orders.

FraudBlock Pricing:

• Free for 30 orders or fewer per month. Sliding scale from $4.95 for 200 orders all the way up to $29.95 for 500 orders.

Choose FraudBlock If

• You process fewer than 30 orders per month and want a free layer of protection for your Shopify store. 

While some Shopify store owners want to decrease friction to make payments as fast and smooth as possible, others might be frustrated by chargebacks from guest checkouts. This is exactly why FraudJudge lets you check customers by requesting ID verification before placing an order.

You can choose to let shoppers verify their addresses and even submit an ID to validate the purchase. This is also a powerful tool to check your customers’ ages and to avoid possible legal issues. 

FraudJudge is free to install and you pay a small fee on each checked order: $0.03 per order and $0.5 per data verification request after the first 10 requests. 

FraudJudge Pricing:

• It costs $0.03 per order and $0.5 per data verification request after the first 10 free requests. You can pay $20 per month for unlimited order and ID verification checks.

Choose FraudJudge If

• You want affordable ID verification for your Shopify store.