Risk · QShield

Stop fraud
before money moves.

QShield sits in the authorization path of every charge — evaluating your rulebook in milliseconds and recording every verdict. Risk teams get control without adding friction for genuine customers.

Inline, not after the fact

A rulebook between fraudsters and your revenue.

Every charge is screened before any gateway is contacted. Velocity counters, amount ceilings, lists and geo signals run in parallel and combine into a single verdict — pass, flag or block — in under twenty milliseconds.

  • Screened pre-authorizationBlocked charges never reach the gateway, so no money moves before a verdict is reached.
  • No friction for good customersAllowlisted repeat payers skip checks entirely; genuine shoppers never feel the layer.
  • Sensible defaults, tunableShips active on every QoinPay account — tighten it to your risk appetite in the dashboard.
Every rule resolves to a verdict

Flag, block — and prove why, later.

Each rule ends in an action you control. Flagged charges proceed but land in a review queue; blocked ones are declined instantly, with the reason logged and never exposed to the fraudster.

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  • Full decision historyEvery rule fired and signal seen is recorded — evidence for chargeback representment.
  • A feedback loopJournalled verdicts show where the rulebook helps and where it needs tuning.
Screening at a glance

Fast enough to stay in the authorization path.

<20ms
Screening latency
6+
Signal families
100%
Charges screened
0$
Moved before verdict
Capabilities

A complete pre-authorization rulebook.

Every signal a risk team needs — velocity, thresholds, lists and geo mismatch — combined into a single verdict before a single cent leaves the payer's account.

Velocity rules

Cap attempts per card, email, IP or device over sliding windows. Five charges from one PAN in ten minutes looks nothing like a real shopper — and QShield knows it.

Amount thresholds

Flag or block charges above configurable ceilings per currency, method or merchant segment. Route the grey zone to manual review instead of losing the sale outright.

Blacklists & allowlists

Deny lists of card fingerprints, emails, IPs and BINs — and allowlists for trusted repeat customers that skip friction entirely. Shared across your whole account.

Geo & mismatch signals

Compare payer IP country against card issuing country and billing details. Impossible-travel and high-risk-corridor patterns raise the score before authorization is attempted.

Flag or block actions

Every rule resolves to a verdict. Flagged charges proceed but land in a review queue; blocked ones never reach the gateway — the reason logged, never exposed.

Full decision history

Each screening records the rules fired, the signals seen and the final verdict — evidence for chargeback representment and a feedback loop for tuning your rulebook.

How it works

Inline screening in three steps.

Charge enters the pipeline

Before any gateway is contacted, QShield receives the charge with its card, payer, device and geo context.

Rulebook evaluates

Velocity counters, thresholds, lists and geo checks run in parallel and combine into a single verdict in milliseconds.

Verdict enforced

Passes continue to routing, flags are journalled for review, blocks are declined instantly — with the reason logged, never exposed.

Signals in depth

What every screening actually inspects.

A verdict is only as good as the signals behind it. QShield draws on six families of evidence on every single charge — and returns exactly what it saw.

Velocity countersSliding-window attempt counts keyed on card, email, IP and device fingerprint.
Amount ceilingsPer-currency, per-method and per-segment thresholds for flag and block.
Deny & allow listsCard fingerprints, emails, IPs and BINs shared across your whole account.
Geo mismatchPayer IP country versus card issuing country and billing address.
Impossible travelCorridor and timing patterns that no genuine shopper could produce.
Decision journalEvery rule fired and signal seen recorded for representment and tuning.
A screening verdict, returned inline
{ "verdict": "block", "score": 92, "rules_fired": [ "velocity.card > 5 / 10m", "geo.mismatch (IP:RU / BIN:NG)", "amount > ceiling(NGN)" ], "signals": { "attempts_10m": 7, "ip_country": "RU", "card_country": "NG", "amount_minor": 4850000 }, "reason_logged": true, "reason_shown_to_payer": false }

Reasons are journalled for your team and hidden from the payer — a fraudster learns nothing from a decline.

Sleep better

Put a rulebook between fraudsters and your revenue.

QShield ships with sensible defaults on every QoinPay account — tune them to your risk appetite in the dashboard.