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title: "Overview of Risk Mitigation Setup"
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updated: 2026-01-22T22:00:01Z
published: 2026-01-22T22:00:01Z
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# Overview of Risk Mitigation Setup

Managing risks in merchant onboarding, activity, and transaction processing is vital for operational integrity and compliance. The advanced merchant and transaction risk management features in Payrix Pro enable secure onboarding tools, automated risk assessments, and customizable parameters for identifying and responding to risky merchants and transactions.

View the articles within this section for more detailed information on Risk Management Portal pages, and automated platform risk tools:

- [Use Decisions for Risk Mitigation](/v1/docs/use-decisions-for-risk-mitigation)

## See Also

The following content provides more guidance on risk and compliance:

- [Risk and Compliance Guide](/v1/docs/risk-compliance-guide)
- [Risk Management](/v1/docs/risk-management-partners)

An entity that can process transactions and has been onboarded through a Payrix Pro partner.

The process of adding clients (merchants) to the Payrix Pro platform to use the Payrix Pro payment solutions. Also known as *boarding*.

The movement of funds between a customer (cardholder or eCheck account holder) and a merchant to purchase a good or service.

The process of assessing and mitigating potential risk associated with transactions and merchant boarding and activity, including fraud prevention, anti-money laundering compliance, and monitoring chargeback rates.

A PayFac-as-a-service platform. Software companies can act as payment facilitators without taking on the associated risks, compliance burdens, and investment.

The web portal offered by the Payrix Pro platform to accomplish tasks for their business through a web-based user interface rather than the API. The Payrix Pro portal contains general settings, payment processing options, reporting, fee settings, group assignments, user management, and much more.