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$500,000,000,000
$500,000,000,000 -- lost sales due to false declines for global ecommerce merchants (2025)
Over $500 billion in sales are lost each year globally due to false payment declines.
- Source states 'over $500 billion'
- Underlying primary source/methodology for the estimate is not cited in the press release
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$500,000,000,000
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Data Vintage
2025
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B
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75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
FlexFactor
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Tier B
https://flexfactor.io/spreedly-and-flexfactor-partner-to-transform-payment-declines-into-revenue-rec… ↗
Source Article
Spreedly and FlexFactor Partner to Transform Payment Declines into Revenue Recovery - FlexFactor
Spreedly and FlexFactor Partner to Transform Payment Declines into Revenue Recovery
Spreedly, the leading open payments platform, and FlexFactor, the leading payment recovery platform, announced today their strategic partnership designed to help merchants recover lost sales. With over $500 billion i…
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FlexFactor
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global ecommerce merchants: $500,000,000,000 lost sales due to false declines. Source: FlexFactor (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/false-declines-lost-sales-annual
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/false-declines-lost-sales-annual" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>$500,000,000,000</strong> -- lost sales due to false declines for global ecommerce merchants<br><small>Source: FlexFactor (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/false-declines-lost-sales-annual" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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