Shopify guides for the fraud and traffic problems teams feel every day
Clear explanations for merchants dealing with bot traffic, suspicious visitors, chargebacks, manual review drag, and noisy analytics.
Guide
Shopify fraud and bad traffic
Broad guide for merchants trying to understand how bad traffic turns into fraud cost, manual work, and noisy data.
Read guideChargebacks
Chargeback cost
Why the dispute is only the visible part of the cost, and why earlier traffic controls matter.
Read guideBots and VPNs
Bot traffic and VPN abuse
Operational guide for merchants seeing suspicious visitors, VPN traffic, scraping, and blocking failures.
Read guideOperations
Manual review burden
Why merchants end up paying for fraud even before a dispute, through repeated manual review and support work.
Read guidePeak season
Peak-season fraud pressure
How BFCM, campaigns, and promo spikes compress response time and make bad traffic more expensive.
Read guideAnalytics
Analytics noise
Why bad traffic breaks growth decisions, not just fraud metrics.
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