Safety & Transparency for the Commercial Internet
LegitScript’s AI-powered merchant and market intelligence platform – combined with the industry’s largest team of regulatory experts – helps internet platforms, e-commerce marketplaces, and payments companies evaluate, mitigate, and manage third-party risk.

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Merchant Onboarding
Powered by Xray, our new AI Risk Intelligence Platform
Maximize efficiency and reduce merchant time-to-processing with rapid risk insights.
Be the first to know about onboarding risk with:
Content Scan - Detect potential card network violations and other business risks
Merchant Match - Match against our vast universe of merchant risk data
MCC Detection - Identify the correct merchant category code in seconds
KYB Checks - Retrieve business lookup, adverse media, watchlist info, and more
Enhanced Usability - Access screenshots, real-time alerts, and a unified API
Merchant Risk Solutions
Assess and manage merchant risk, including transaction laundering, to grow with confidence and reduce fine exposure throughout the merchant life cycle.
Merchant Monitoring
Learn how to get the most accurate and highest quality merchant intelligence on the market - all in real time.
Demo Videos
Demo videos, use cases, and top resources that can help you understand how to leverage LegitScript for risk mitigation and merchant monitoring.
Resource Center
LegitScript's Merchant Risk Solutions Resource Center offers essential information on the most frequently asked questions around the most important topics in payments risk and compliance.
Platform Risk Solutions
Uncover hard-to-detect violations in ads, product listings, and user-generated content to protect your platform and enable enforcement.
Ad Monitoring
Quickly identify and remove violative paid advertisements to safely grow advertising platform revenue.
Marketplace Monitoring
Detect prohibited or risky product listings to protect your brand and make your marketplace a safer place to buy and sell.
Solution Brief
Learn why the world's largest search engines, online marketplaces, and social media platforms trust LegitScript.
Industry Intelligence Products
Leverage the world’s most robust risk data and subject matter expertise to navigate regulatory changes and stay ahead of emerging threats.
Risk Landscape Reports
Gain expert insights into emerging high-risk trends to safeguard your business and stay ahead of threats.
Data Lookups
Access the premier source for risk information about healthcare products and websites to power your risk and compliance workflows.
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Shifting Currents in Addiction Treatment: Key Themes from the NAATP Conference
The National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers (NAATP) is an organization whose mission is to provide leadership, advocacy, training, and member support services to ensure the availability and highest quality of addiction treatment. With over a thousand members, their annual conference serves as one of the biggest gatherings for the addiction treatment providers. At this…
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LegitScript Named a Top Merchant Monitoring Vendor of 2025
LegitScript has been named a top merchant monitoring solution for its unmatched accuracy, AI-powered insights, and expert human review. Trusted by major platforms and payment providers, it leads the industry in detecting hidden risks with minimal false positives. Discover why it leads the pack in the latest comparison of merchant monitoring solutions.
Why LegitScript Certification Is Your Passport in 2025: A Recap for Healthcare Businesses
In a dynamic regulatory landscape, certification is becoming not just an asset but a necessity for highly regulated businesses to acquire services such as payment processing. Get the recap from our latest webinar, then watch the full presentation.
LegitScript Healthcare Merchant Certification Now Recognized by Google for Telemedicine Providers in the United Kingdom
LegitScript announced its partnership with Google to certify telemedicine providers in the United Kingdom. The policy update means telemedicine businesses operating in the UK can now apply for LegitScript Healthcare Certification, a required step for advertising on Google’s platforms.
LegitScript & Special Guest Marketplace Risk Panel Recap: How to Stay Ahead of Global Regulations and Trends: Using Deep Intelligence to Shape Policy and Mitigate Risk
At Marketplace Risk, experts tackled the challenges of content moderation and platform responsibility, focusing on drug-related content, evolving evasion tactics, and the balance between AI and human oversight. Transparency and proactive safety measures took center stage. Listen below to an excerpt of the panel discussion held this year by the LegitScript team at the Marketplace…
Key Takeaways from LegitScript’s Webinar: Navigating Risks and Regulations in Online Abortion Pill Sales
In our recent webinar on online abortion pill sales, experts outlined how recent legal changes are reshaping access to medication abortion and highlighted emerging threats facing online platforms and payment service providers. Read our key takeaways from the presentation.
Social Gaming and Sweepstakes Casinos
New forms of online gambling present heightened risk to payment service providers through chargebacks, fraud, and reputational damage. In this webinar, learn about the regulations and risks around social gaming, sweepstakes casinos, and other forms of novel online gambling.
Merchant Onboarding Essentials: What You Need to Know
Getting onboarding right is crucial for compliance, security, and long-term growth. Keep reading to understand critical areas of risk, then use our onboarding checklist to ensure your processes are adhering to industry best practices.
LegitScript Marketplace Risk Panel Recap: The Dark Side of Weight-Loss Drugs: Regulation, Risk, and Red Flags
Dive into the dark side of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs in this Marketplace Risk panel featuring LegitScript experts. Learn how compounding pharmacies, unregulated sellers, and social media influencers are fueling safety risks, enforcement concerns, and regulatory blind spots around popular drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy.
Trust, Risk, and the Future of Compliance: Key Takeaways from Marketplace Risk San Francisco 2025
Explore key insights from Marketplace Risk San Francisco 2025, where industry leaders tackled rising fraud threats, evolving platform trust challenges, and the strategic role of compliance. Learn how proactive policies, smarter risk signals, and collaboration are reshaping digital platform integrity.
The Importance of Bank Relationships in 2025: Why Certification is Your Passport
For companies operating in highly regulated industries, financial relationships can be difficult to acquire and maintain. In this webinar, we’ll discuss how risk appetites are changing in the banking and payments industries, and how this impacts businesses like yours.
Partnering for Compliance: What Platforms and Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Need to Know
Understand how pharmaceutical manufacturing has been changing, what areas are most frequently reviewed by advertising and payment platforms, and how LegitScript Certification helps manufacturers demonstrate their credibility in this dynamic landscape.
What You Need to Know About KYB in Merchant Onboarding
In the payments world, KYB is all about verifying the legitimacy of a business and the people behind it before you let them onto your platform. Keep reading to understand what KYB is, how it differs from KYC, and how best to integrate it into your workflow.
From Shortage Heroes to Compliance Champions: What Today’s GLP-1 Pharmacies Must Know
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Merchant Onboarding in the Age of AI: Key Takeaways from the LegitScript Webinar
In this LegitScript-hosted webinar, expert panelists offered a pragmatic look at how artificial intelligence is reshaping the future of merchant onboarding and underwriting, and how to adapt without compromising speed or security. Read our key takeaways from the talk.
LegitScript Announces Marketplace Risk Benchmarking Research Program, Providing Clients with Competitive Industry Insights
LegitScript announced a benchmarking program for its e-commerce Marketplace clients to assess risk in key categories, compare their risk mitigation efforts against industry leaders, and make informed decisions around policy and growth. Read more.