ChargeRadar watches your Shopify Payments disputes, your chargeback rate against Visa's 0.9% line, and the risky orders stacking up — and warns you days before you cross a threshold or lose your evidence window. Flat $19/month. No per-alert fees. Ever.
Connect your store — free scan See pricing"One chargeback away from collapse." — an actual r/dropshipping post. It's not an outlier: sellers report $37,000 frozen for 120 days, and one store was frozen with a 0.13% chargeback rate — far below every official threshold.
The 4-step path from "normal store" to "frozen account" — every step before the freeze is visible in your own Shopify data first. That's the window we watch.
Live 7/30/60-day dispute rate vs Visa's 0.90% and 1.0% action lines. See your trajectory, not just your current number — the trend is what triggers freezes.
Every open dispute tracked with its response deadline, visible at a glance. Never auto-lose a winnable case to a forgotten deadline again.
Orders flagged with high fraud scores or AVS/CVV mismatches — surfaced with the math: refund now (costs the margin) or ship and risk a $15+ chargeback fee. You decide; we make sure you saw it.
"How many more disputes before 0.9%?" — answered live from your real order volume. Plan a promotion knowing exactly where your headroom is.
You approve ChargeRadar through Shopify's official authorization with read-only permissions (orders + disputes). We can never modify orders, refund, or charge anything — no "full account access" like some alert tools require. First scan maps your baseline; after that, you get warned, not surprised.
Alert networks (Ethoca/Verifi) charge resellers per dispute intercepted, so alert tools pass it on — one busy month can cost more than our whole year. We're the flat-fee early-warning layer underneath.
| ChargeRadar | Chargeblast | Chargeflow | Disputifier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $19/mo flat | $0 + alerts | Free analytics tier | Custom quote |
| Alert fees | $0 — included | $29/Ethoca, $19/Visa RDR per alert | $29 per deflected chargeback | custom, per-alert |
| Success fee on recoveries | 0% | — | 25% of recovered | 20% (cap $250/win) |
| Rate vs 0.9% VAMP dashboard | ✓ core | — | partial (free tier) | — |
| Deadline reminders | ✓ included | — | — | — |
| Access | read-only OAuth | broad account access | — | — |
Competitor prices from their official pricing pages, September 2026; may change.
No — and we wouldn't. ChargeRadar is monitoring and alerting only, with read-only API access you grant through Shopify's official OAuth. We don't touch your funds, dispute outcomes, or Shopify's risk decisions. Our goal is the opposite of gaming: help you run a cleaner operation — fewer disputes, faster responses, better documentation — so thresholds are never crossed in the first place.
No. Nobody outside Shopify can do that — be wary of anyone claiming otherwise. What we do is help you avoid the next freeze by watching the signals that precede one.
Visa's Acquirer Monitoring Program. Effective January 1, 2026, Visa consolidated its monitoring programs into VAMP with a dispute threshold of 0.90% (down from the previous 1.5% era). Cross it and your account enters monitoring with fines and escalating consequences. Our dashboard tracks your rate against this line continuously.
No App Store app, no theme changes. You approve a read-only connection through Shopify's official flow and you're done. Revoking takes one click in your Shopify admin.
Order and dispute data needed for your dashboard: dispute statuses, amounts, deadlines, order risk flags, and aggregate counts. We don't build customer profiles, never sell data, and you can delete everything with one click.
Different layers. They charge per intercepted dispute ($19–29 each) or take 20–25% of recoveries. We're the flat-fee early-warning layer underneath: your rate, your deadlines, your risky orders. Many merchants use us alongside them — some find that with early warnings they need them less.