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E-commerce vocabulary · Payments and Fraud Prevention

Rolling reserve

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In e-commerce, rolling reserve means: A payment arrangement that withholds portions of incoming merchant proceeds and releases them after specified holding periods.

In Turkish: dönüşümlü ödeme rezervi, vadeli bloke rezervi

How it is used

Use in merchant payment operations; read the reserve's percentage and release schedule separately from processing fees.

Example sentences

  1. The rolling reserve reduced the amount available for this week's supplier payments.

    Some proceeds remain temporarily unavailable even though sales have occurred.

  2. Older funds were released from the rolling reserve while new sales added fresh amounts.

    The balance changes as different portions enter and leave their holding periods.

Common collocations

  • rolling reserve percentage
  • rolling reserve release
  • rolling reserve balance
  • 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.
  • chargebackThe reversal of a card payment after the cardholder disputes it with their bank, for example claiming the item never arrived or the payment was fraudulent.

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