Find your billing descriptors and ARNs

When setting up Prevent without a connected integration, you enter your billing descriptors and any required ARNs yourself. You may also need these details when enrolling in Order Insight through Deflect. This article explains what they are and points you to the guide for your payment processor.

During setup you may have chosen not to connect an integration (sometimes called a "processor" in the setup screens). That only means your processor isn't linked directly to Chargeback.io. You still have a payment processor — Stripe, Braintree, Shopify, and so on — and that's where your descriptors and ARNs live.

Both your descriptors and your ARNs come from your payment processor, not from Chargeback.io.

The exact location and labels differ by processor, but in general you'll find your billing descriptor in your processor's account, business, or payment settings — often labeled "statement descriptor" or "customer statement descriptor."

Your ARNs are in the details of individual settled transactions, sometimes under a label like "acquirer reference number" or within the transaction's processing or network details.

To make the process of finding your billing descriptor easier, read through one of these guides for step-by-step instructions, images, and videos:

Some gateways like NMI and Next Payments will not provide billing descriptors or ARNs. If you use these, or similar gateways, you must contact the payment processor that you have connected to these gateways.

If you don't see your processor above, the same principles apply: look in your account or payment settings for the statement descriptor, and in individual transaction records for the ARN.

If you can't locate either, contact your payment processor's customer support.

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