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$118,000,000,000
$118,000,000,000 -- annual revenue loss from false declines for US merchants (2025)
False declines cost US merchants approximately $118 billion annually in legitimate orders wrongly blocked.
- Estimate by ClearSale
- Source states approximately $118 billion
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$118,000,000,000
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2025
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US
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30
Methodology
35
Freshness
95
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ClearSale
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ClearSale estimate of US merchant losses from legitimate orders wrongly blocked
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IndustryRetail
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US merchants: $118,000,000,000 annual revenue loss from false declines. Source: ClearSale (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/us-false-declines-cost
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