Payment health

Your Payment health dashboard shows how disputes and refunds affect your account and payment controls. You’ll find it in your dashboard under Payments → Payment health, at whop.com/dashboard/payments/health.

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What a dispute rate is

A dispute (also called a chargeback) happens when a customer asks their bank to reverse a payment instead of asking you for a refund. Your dispute rate is the share of your payments that end in a dispute. A few disputes are normal for any business. The problem is the rate. Card networks hold every merchant to a maximum dispute rate, and the line they care about is 1.5%. Stay under it and you’re in good standing. Go over it and there are consequences for you and for Whop.

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Your dispute rate, measured two ways

The dashboard shows your dispute rate in two modes: 30d window and By purchase date. They answer different questions.

• 30d window: disputes filed in the last 30 days ÷ payments taken in the last 30 days.
• By purchase date: takes the payments from one period and asks how many of them got disputed. Disputes filed within N days of the payment ÷ payments taken in the period, where N is the Disputed within 7 days, Disputed within 14 days, or Disputed within 28 days selector. The dashboard assigns each dispute to the payment date, not the filing date.

For example, say you took 1,000 payments in the last 30 days, and 10 disputes arrived in that time: The 30d window rate counts all 10 disputes: 10 ÷ 1,000 = 1%. The By purchase date rate counts only the 3 that belong to this month’s payments: 3 ÷ 1,000 = 0.3% so far. That rate keeps rising as more disputes on this month’s payments come in. Which one to watch depends on your situation:

• If your sales are steady, the two rates look about the same.
• If you’re growing fast, the 30d window rate looks low because customers haven’t had time to dispute your newest payments yet. Watch the by-purchase-date rate instead: it shows your dispute rate before the 30d number catches up.

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Statuses

Each dispute rate metric gets a status: Healthy, At risk, or Critical. The chart draws the exact bands for each metric, and every payment method tab has its own: American Express, Discover, and buy now, pay later methods are held to different lines than standard cards. If your account doesn’t have enough payments or disputes to score yet, the metric shows Low data instead.

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The controls on your account

The Controls section of the page lists the payment controls currently set on your account: your reserve, auto-refund thresholds, pending delay, fees, and financing availability. Reviews run continuously, and controls ease or lift automatically as your account recovers.

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Refund rate

The dashboard also shows your refund rate: refunds issued as a share of payments. Read it next to your dispute rate. A low refund rate with a high dispute rate means customers who wanted their money back went to their bank instead of coming to you.

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Why customers dispute

The Why customers dispute card breaks your disputes down by reason. Each reason points at a fix:

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Next steps