Activating FPA through partner merchants

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Last updated: Feb 5th, 10:33pm

This flow is designed for new merchants who sign up with PayPal through their partners. Your merchants should use the following steps to activate Fraud Protection Advanced (FPA):

As a new merchant, you will be redirected from the partner's website to the PayPal’s Integrated Sign-Up (ISU) onboarding experience. In the final step of this process, you will see an option to activate fraud protection. Select Activate fraud protection to activate it.

Select Do it yourself with PayPal's fraud tool and then select Next. If you select comparison chart, you'll see a detailed comparison of features for Fraud Protection (FP), Fraud Protection Advanced (FPA), and Chargeback protection, as shown in the following screenshots:

A recommended solution will be preselected for you based on your business metrics. However, you can modify the selection if you want. Make sure the Fraud Protection Advanced Tool is selected and select Next.

Confirm your details to set up automatic bank payments for your fraud tool, and select Next.

Select Let's Go to open the Fraud Protection Advanced tool and begin customizing your fraud tool.

Next steps

Create and set up filters

Use filters to decide whether FPA approves, rejects, or puts a transaction into a review queue.

Manage lists

Use the lists feature to manage information and work with their rules to help prevent fraud.

Review transactions

Review transactions that are flagged for review.

Monitor FPA activity

You can track which users made changes and when these changes occurred in your merchant records.