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Holdback

A merchant reserve is an amount of funds held back by a merchant account provider to cover the costs of potential chargebacks. Merchant reserves are frequently required for high-risk merchant accounts. They often take the form of a rolling reserve, a percentage of each transaction that is held for a predetermined amount of time before being released. Read more >>>