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Customer reviews: Fraud Control

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Reviews (11)

Overall rating
2.7

What Merchants Think

Merchants have mixed feelings about "Fraud Control". While some appreciate its potential to help manage fraud effectively, particularly when integrated with other tools like Shopify Flow, others find it lacking in functionality. The ability to block fraudulent activities before they occur is a significant concern for many users.

Key Strengths

  • Integration with Shopify Flow for extensive fraud checks
  • Useful fraud analytics for decision-making
  • Simple rule creation to block known fraudsters
  • Facilitation of automations that some users find beneficial

Common Concerns

  • Lack of direct customer support and assistance
  • Inability to block fraud effectively before checkout
  • Limited functionality without Shopify Payments
  • Issues with blocking features and template links not working
  • Potential to block legitimate orders if misused

Final Thoughts

Overall, "Fraud Control" is seen as a tool with promise, especially when paired with other Shopify applications like Flow. However, its limitations in blocking fraudulent transactions beforehand and the lack of direct support have left some users dissatisfied. It's best suited for merchants willing to invest time in integrating it robustly with their existing systems.

Amy Knupp Books

Aug 25, 2025  on Shopify

Useless. App showed potential but the ability to see/create rules has VANISHED from 20 stores that I manage. Just gone. No way to get help other than to try and email someone. Pointless. Without the ability create rules, addd IP addresses, etc to blocks...what the heck is the point? Remember, you get what you pay for...

Little Rocker Clothing

Jul 15, 2025  on Shopify

This app is pretty useless.. It says there is a way to "Block checkouts before they become orders", but I can't find this feature anywhere.... No way to contact customer service.

FIGS

Apr 12, 2024  on Shopify

At FIGS, we use Fraud Control as the sole source of combating against credit card, chargebacks, reseller, and other types of e-commerce fraudulent activities. I do wish this app had more/better/more detailed functionality to better serve our growing platform.

eJools

Mar 20, 2024  on Shopify

I think that the reviewers that are giving low scores here are missing the boat. This tool adds some powerful capabilities. It is not just the dashboard. It seems to conditions to FLOW. We were paying a 3rd party company to guarantee our orders against fraud. They accepted more than 99% of the orders which was good, but at a cost that added up to a high monthly amount. After installing Fraud Control, I went to create some creative FLOWs (you need this free app too) and each time an order came in it runs through plenty of rules and uses the fraud risk score which has been pretty good. AVS, and a slew of other properties of the order. I also exempt regular orders from this check and exempt Shop Protect orders from this check. I believe that we will have almost the same success rate as we had with the paid company. I let it run for a few weeks together and now removed the paid company. (I gave them a chance to reduce their cost first) I just added this to my 2nd store today, because of the success with the first store. I run this in conjunction with a paid invoice printing app and when the printing app sees a Fraud tag on the order (add by my flow), it prints a big "Don't ship - FRAUD" on the order. Now, I just need to add the same thing for a "HOLD" which I sometimes add to the order when needed in further examination which I haven't needed so far. I hope that everyone sees the benefit that I do and get the most from it causing Shopify to build it our even better.

Purify Life

Sep 24, 2023  on Shopify

I turned on this tool and it didnt block fraudulent orders, now someone opened 53 orders in 3 days and stole nearly thousands of units that will result in thousands of dollars in chargebacks!

Select Australia

Aug 27, 2023  on Shopify

It literally does nothing that is new or useful. Just a dashboard, that tells you how many charge backs. Useless. I would have thought a basic template would be to block by IP, and other patterns, rather than just email address. Don't bother.

SFSCA - DEV

Jul 26, 2023  on Shopify

This doesn't let you block high risk orders from completing a checkout - it only prompts you to install a shopify Flow to cancel said order after it has already been submitted. That being said, the checkout blocking is great, but it only lets you block orders based on customer's address, email, or IP address - making it almost entirely useless unless you know who is going to submit a fraudulent order before it happens. There isn't even an option to block customers that have previously submitted a chargeback! you have to add their email addresses manually, one at a time!

Muzzle-Loaders.com

Jun 28, 2023  on Shopify

Blocked all of our orders from exporting to shipstation. I would not install this app. It seems to be very buggy

Green Electrical Supply

Jun 18, 2023  on Shopify

All this really provides is a little fraud dashboard. All the automations are done via Flow anyway, which can be done without having this app installed. It attempts to make it easier to install ready made Flows, but the the install template links all fail, so you have to go to Flow and find the template. I ended up combining two Flows,so there is just one flow that runs - if order is not high fraud risk it will capture the payment, or if high risk, tag and cancel the order.

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