Kount
E-commerce fraud protection software
Risk-based authentication software
Fraud detection software
Identity management software
Web security software
E-commerce software
Accounting & finance software
Deduction management software
Financial fraud prevention
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- Ease of management
- Quality of support
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- Market presence
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What is Kount
Kount is a digital fraud prevention platform used to assess risk and help merchants and payment teams reduce fraud and chargebacks across e-commerce and other online channels. It combines device and behavioral signals with identity and transaction data to support real-time decisioning and case review workflows. Typical users include fraud operations teams, risk analysts, and payments teams that need to approve, decline, or challenge transactions while managing customer friction. The product is commonly deployed via APIs and integrates with commerce, payments, and customer identity stacks.
Broad fraud signal coverage
Kount evaluates transactions using multiple signal types such as device intelligence, identity attributes, and behavioral patterns. This supports use cases beyond simple card-not-present checks, including account takeover and suspicious login/checkout activity. The breadth of signals can reduce reliance on any single data source and helps teams tune decisions by channel and risk scenario.
Real-time decisioning and workflows
The platform supports automated decisions (approve/decline/challenge) with configurable rules and scoring, plus tools for manual review. This combination fits organizations that need both low-latency screening and analyst-driven investigation for edge cases. Workflow features help standardize queues, notes, and outcomes so teams can operationalize fraud policies.
Integrations for commerce ecosystems
Kount is typically implemented through APIs and is designed to connect with payment processors, e-commerce platforms, and internal data sources. This integration approach supports embedding fraud checks directly into checkout and account flows. It also enables sharing outcomes back to upstream systems for reporting, reconciliation, and continuous tuning.
Tuning and maintenance effort
Effective performance often depends on configuring rules, thresholds, and review processes that match a merchant’s risk tolerance and customer experience goals. Teams may need ongoing monitoring to manage false positives, false negatives, and policy drift as fraud patterns change. Organizations without dedicated fraud operations resources can find optimization time-consuming.
Data sharing and privacy constraints
Fraud platforms rely on collecting and processing device, identity, and behavioral data, which can raise privacy, consent, and data residency considerations. Requirements such as GDPR/CCPA compliance, retention controls, and cross-border data transfers may affect deployment design. Some businesses may need additional legal and security review before enabling certain signals.
Fit varies by fraud domain
Kount is strongest in digital commerce and online transaction risk, but it may not cover every specialized financial crime need out of the box (for example, certain bank-grade payment monitoring or highly specific regulatory reporting). Companies with complex, multi-line fraud programs may still require complementary tools for adjacent domains. Evaluation typically depends on channel mix, transaction types, and internal case management requirements.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Essentials | Contact us for pricing | No-code integration; no monthly minimums; fraud response delivered directly in select ecommerce marketplaces. |
| Advanced | Contact us for pricing | Full pre-auth payment risk solution; complete customization; unlimited users + training; standard integration and onboarding support. |
| Enterprise | Contact us for pricing | Full customization; advanced integration and onboarding; advanced account support with dedicated manager; preferential pricing with volume discounts. |
| Custom | Contact us for pricing | Feature-based pricing; pick modules (identity verification, account protection, chargeback management, etc.); expert planning and flexible onboarding. |
Kount 360 Shopify App (official Terms & Conditions — usage-based):
Pricing model: Pay-as-you-go (recurring fee + per-transaction fees) Free tier/trial: Not stated (see notes) Pricing details:
- Recurring fee: $25.00 per month (discounted by 80% for the first three months).
- Per-transaction fees (based on number of transactions in a rolling one-month window):
- $0.12 per transaction while less than 5,000 transactions
- $0.10 per transaction while less than 10,000 transactions
- $0.09 per transaction while less than 15,000 transactions
- $0.08 per transaction while equal to or greater than 15,000 transactions Notes: This pricing is specified in the Kount 360 Shopify App Terms & Conditions hosted on kount.com. Other Kount solutions are generally billed on a per-interaction basis and require requesting a custom quote via Kount's pricing/contact pages.
Seller details
Equifax Inc.
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
1899
Public
https://www.equifax.com/
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