Using reCAPTCHA to improve payment security in WebShop
Purpose and scope
Google reCAPTCHA is a third party add-on that is designed to protect your online store from fraudulent activities by automatically detecting and blocking suspicious behaviour. As standard, it is implemented as an Invisible reCAPTCHA integration with WebShop. The Invisible reCAPTCHA integration runs in the background and verifies a customer’s activity before a payment attempt during the checkout process. If it deems the interactions to be suspicious, it displays challenges to the customer so they can verify that they are not a robot. Otherwise, the customer’s payment is processed without any intervention from them. This ensures a seamless checkout process for legitimate users while enhancing the security of your transactions.
The purpose of this article is to outline setup steps and to explain what your customer’s experience is in WebShop when the reCAPTCHA app is integrated with WebShop.
Assumptions
You are responsible for maintaining an active reCAPTCHA account.
Any costs associated with using third-party software is your responsibility.
Recommendation
To improve payment security in WebShop, we strongly recommend that you install the reCAPTCHA app during onboarding.
Benefits
Key benefits of integrating reCAPTCHA with WebShop:
Improved payment security by preventing fraudulent and suspicious activity
Provides a seamless checkout process for legitimate customers
More information
Set up
Register your WebShop (site) on the Google reCAPTCHA dashboard before you install and configure the reCAPTCHA app in Management Interface.
Key points
Make sure to select v2 Invisible as the reCAPTCHA type - read Choose the type of reCAPTCHA (external content) for more information.
There is a limit of 50 domains for each reCAPTCHA site/secret pairs. Read How to add more than 50 domains in Google reCAPTCHA (external content) for information.