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E-commerce vocabulary · Payments and Fraud Prevention

Address verification service

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In e-commerce, address verification service means: A card payment service that compares submitted billing address details with information held by the card issuer.

In Turkish: adres doğrulama hizmeti

How it is used

Often called AVS; its result is a payment risk signal, not proof that a shipping address exists or a buyer is fraudulent.

Example sentences

  1. The address verification service returned a mismatch for the billing postcode.

    The comparison concerns billing information recorded by the issuer.

  2. Our support team explained why the address verification service was unavailable for that card.

    An unavailable check differs from a confirmed address mismatch.

Common collocations

  • address verification service result
  • AVS check
  • AVS mismatch
  • fraud detectionChecking orders and payments for signs of fraud, such as stolen cards or fake accounts, often with software that gives each order a risk score.
  • payment gatewayA service that securely sends a customer's card or other payment details from the online store to the banks and returns whether the payment is approved.

More terms: Payments and Fraud Prevention

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