ClearSale Alternatives

NoFraud is the alternative that copies ClearSale's model most closely: machine screening, optional expert manual review, and a guarantee on the fraud chargebacks of orders it passed. The company now trades as Wyllo, and its Shopify app is listed as "Wyllo (NoFraud + Yofi)", so the name on your invoice may differ from the one in your search. What sets it apart is the price list. On the Shopify app listing, Screening Only is free for up to 100 orders a month after a 14-day trial that starts with the first screened order. The guarantee tiers are then 1% of revenue with a $250 monthly minimum and a $500 guarantee, 1.25% with a $350 minimum and a $1,000 guarantee, and 1.5% with a $450 minimum and a $2,000 guarantee. All three are for merchants under $50,000 a month; above that, pricing is custom.

Read the minimum before the percentage. At $20,000 of monthly revenue, 1% is $200, so you pay the $250 floor, an effective 1.25%. At $40,000, you pay $400. Then read the guarantee amount: the listing pairs each tier with a $500, $1,000 or $2,000 guarantee without saying what it limits, so ask Wyllo in writing whether it is a cap per order before you put an $1,800 basket on the $500 tier. Wyllo also sells return fraud, policy abuse and bot screening in the same platform. The app holds a 4.8 rating from 165 reviews on the Shopify App Store, against 3.7 from 52 for ClearSale. Tip: pick the tier whose guarantee covers your average order value, not the cheapest one.

Signifyd sells the same promise as ClearSale, approve an order and stand behind it, but without people in the loop by default. Its pricing model is a percentage of the order total, charged when an order is approved; the rate depends on the products sold, the vertical, order volume and average ticket, and there is no charge when an order is declined for fraud. To get a rate, you pick your annual GMV band (less than $5M, $5M to $75M, $75M to $200M, $200M to $1B, $1B+) and request a quote. On Shopify the app is free to install, with charges that may apply after a 14-day free trial.

Its real edge over ClearSale is the guarantee scope. Signifyd offers a configurable financial guarantee against chargebacks, ranging from fraud-only protection to a total chargeback liability shift. That last option covers the item-not-received and not-as-described disputes that a fraud guarantee leaves with you. When an order is declined, you can resubmit it with more information for a review by a certified fraud expert, which partly replaces ClearSale's analysts. The Shopify app holds 4.4 from 92 reviews, with 16% one-star ratings. Tip: bring last year's chargebacks split by reason code to the call; the broader scope is only worth paying for if non-fraud disputes are a real share of your losses.

Stripe Radar is the opposite trade to ClearSale: no guarantee, and a price measured in dollars, not in a share of your sales. Radar Lite gives AI-based fraud prevention for card payments, card testing protection and fraud alerts at no additional charge for businesses on Stripe's standard payments pricing. Radar Standard starts at $10 a month for businesses, Radar Plus at $14 and Radar Pro at $20; each also exists as pay as you go. Platforms and marketplaces pay more: $20, $44 and $70 a month. Even at $20 a month for Radar Pro, a year costs $240, which is roughly what ClearSale's Growth plan starts at for one month.

What you give up is the safety net. A fraud chargeback that Radar lets through is your loss, plus the dispute fee. What you gain is control: Radar Plus and Pro add risk scores from 0 to 99, custom rules you can write and backtest, manual reviews and Adaptive 3D Secure, which can shift liability for authenticated card payments to the issuer. Radar Pro adds protection against free-trial abuse, bots and multi-account signals, useful for subscription businesses. Radar covers payments processed on Stripe; covering payments processed elsewhere takes an enterprise contract with custom pricing. Tip: start every new rule in review mode and backtest it on past payments before you let it block anything; a blocking rule written in a hurry costs more in false declines than fraud. If you are weighing Stripe itself, read our guide to switching from Stripe.

Riskified is built for the merchants that sit above ClearSale's Growth plan. Its model mirrors ClearSale's on paper: you pay only for approved orders that generate revenue, and Riskified guarantees approval rates and covers chargebacks on those approvals. Riskified frames this as a performance guarantee including full chargeback protection. There is no public rate: the sales form only asks for your annual online revenue, in bands from under $10M to $350M+. Riskified claims it can cut your total cost of fraud by as much as 50% and raise approval rates by up to 20%; treat both as targets to write into the contract, not forecasts.

The breadth is the reason to switch. Beyond its checkout decisions (Checkout Intelligence), Riskified sells Policy Intelligence against return, item-not-received and promo abuse and Dispute Intelligence to optimize disputes, and its platform approves orders across markets and payment methods, from ACH and open invoices to digital wallets. Its models analyze hundreds of features per transaction and can answer in under a second. The cost of that breadth is the sales process: expect a demo, a data review and a negotiated contract, not an app you install on a Friday. Tip: ask for the approval-rate commitment and the chargeback guarantee as two separate clauses, so a missed approval target has its own remedy.

Shopify Protect is the free floor every US Shopify store should switch on before signing with anyone. It covers eligible Shop Pay transactions authorized through Shopify Payments, at no extra cost. When an order marked "protection active" gets a fraud-based chargeback, Shopify covers the total order cost and the chargeback fee, and handles the dispute process itself. Shop Pay transactions on Facebook, Instagram and Google are covered too. For a store whose checkout is mostly Shop Pay, that is a large share of what ClearSale's guarantee sells, for $0.

The limits are strict, and they are why it ranks fifth. Coverage applies to US stores only. You must fulfill eligible orders within seven days, with a tracking number from an approved carrier. Orders paid by other cards, PayPal or other wallets are not covered, and only fraud-based chargebacks are in scope. There is no human review and no decision you can override with context. Shopify's fraud analysis still gives risk indicators on every order, but on unprotected orders the risk stays with you. Tip: check your share of Shop Pay orders in your payments report first; if it is above half, a paid tool only needs to cover the rest, which changes the quote you should accept. Leaving Shopify altogether? Our guide to switching from Shopify covers the move.

Chargeflow solves a different half of the problem than ClearSale: it works around and after the dispute. Its Automation product fights chargebacks end to end, from data collection to AI-built evidence and submission, and costs 25% of each recovered chargeback, with nothing to pay until a recovery; a recovery means the issuer rules in your favor and the funds come back. Prevent scans orders before you ship at $0.10 per scanned transaction, with the first 1,000 free. Alerts deflect chargebacks through Visa and Mastercard for $29 per deflected chargeback, with a better price above 50 alerts a month. Insights, the dashboard, is free. There is no contract or minimum commitment.

Run the numbers on your basket. On a recovered $60 chargeback, the fee is $15. Prevent on 5,000 orders a month costs $500 once the first 1,000 free scans are used, more than NoFraud's $450 top-tier minimum, and carries no guarantee. And an Alert costs $29 even on a $25 order, so set Alerts to auto-refund only above a basket value that makes sense. The Shopify app holds 4.5 from 439 reviews. Pair it with Shopify Protect or Stripe Radar for screening, and you cover both ends of the problem for much less than a percentage of sales.

FRIQ Labs keeps the part of ClearSale that small high-ticket stores value most, a human looking at a risky order, and drops the rest. Its analysts investigate each order you send and return a report with a recommendation to ship, hold or cancel; the service connects to your store through Shopify's native webhook. The prices are public: $29 for a one-off review, Light at $99 a month for up to 20 reviews, Starter at $399 a month for up to 200, and custom pricing for Enterprise. Monthly plans come with a 7-day free trial, no contract, and you can cancel anytime.

The catch is liability. FRIQ provides fraud risk intelligence and recommendations, and the final fulfillment decision remains with you. If you ship on its advice and the order turns out to be fraud, the loss is yours. It is built for high-ticket stores: FRIQ sees a good fit when your average order value is over $500, because every order is investigated by hand. The maths favors the plans: $99 for 20 reviews is $4.95 per review, and $399 for 200 is about $2.00, against $29 one-off. Tip: send FRIQ only the orders your platform already flags as medium or high risk, so 20 reviews a month cover a store with far more orders. For a wider view of store tools, see our best Shopify dropshipping apps.