Lightning-fast, low-risk merchant onboarding
InvestiGate automates underwriting for quick Know Your Business (KYB), ensuring compliance and thorough investigations.
An underwriting tool by experts, for experts
Web Shield's InvestiGate is the KYB software built on more than a decade of experience in merchant due diligence. Created by underwriters, for underwriters, it helps you get quicker results, make better onboarding decisions, and improve your team's efficiency.
Onboard merchants in a flash
InvestiGate makes underwriting large merchant portfolios feasible through automation, even for smaller teams.
All the tools you need in one place
Every tool an underwriter needs, intelligently implemented in one dashboard.
More than just merchant onboarding software
Our team is constantly improving the system and implementing new card scheme rules.
Advanced scoring and decisioning
Quantified risk scores and traffic light colour coding make complex data understandable and actionable.
Typical card scheme rules violations
The Mastercard BRAM program and Visa's VIRP are the bible for merchant underwriters. Web Shield's InvestiGate helps you follow it.
There are a myriad of risk indicators tied to card scheme violations that InvestiGate detects automatically. Here are some of the most important ones for Know Your Business (KYB) organisations.
The key requirement of both BRAM and VIRP is that merchants are not allowed to sell any illegal or brand-damaging products or services. To identify if that is the case, Web Shield’s web crawler scans all known merchant websites to find any content that may violate this requirement.
There are clear rules for what an eCommerce merchant has to display on their website to be compliant with card scheme rules. That means they need clear information about the company operating the site, payment terms, and more. InvestiGate automatically identifies if this information is available and presents it to you for review.
In recent years, Mastercard and Visa have introduced very strict rules for negative options merchants to prevent consumers from buying products or services they don't want. Payment processors must see that their merchants operate transparently with free trial offers and subscriptions.
One step closer to holistic risk management
Web Shield's KYB solutions are built to work with each other. Combine InvestiGate with Monitor or take advantage of our high-risk merchant compliance tools to bring your portfolio risk management to the next level.
Persistent merchant monitoring
Websites can change as fast as the weather. With Web Shield's Monitor, you can keep a close watch and avoid any potential storms.
Crypto merchant compliance
Crypto merchants are one of the trickiest to underwrite without legal counsel. With CompliancePass, it is only one click away.
High-risk merchant compliance
Not all merchants are built the same. Take advantage of our specialised underwriting tools for high-risk industries.
Book a demo to see InvestiGate in action
Sometimes the only way to understand what our solutions can do for your business is to see them in action. Book a demo with one of our team and see for yourself.
