Document Preparation for Merchants · United States

Your bank took your money.
Get it back.

We prepare your finished chargeback response — filled in from your dispute details, ready to file before the network deadline, with a copy placed on record with the CFPB so the bank can never claim you didn't respond.

$25 Defense Kit Your response to file + CFPB copy — 4 finished documents $99 Kit + Prevention Pack Everything in the kit, plus merchant Terms-of-Service & Privacy-Policy templates
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About 10 minutes of your details · Pay by Zelle through your own bank · No subscription · Document preparation, not legal advice

How It Works

Three steps. One response, filed on time.

Enter your dispute details

Copy the details from your chargeback notice into one form — reason code, deadline, banks, delivery proof.

Pay $25 by Zelle

Through your own bank. We never see your card or bank credentials — that is the point.

Get your finished documents

Your code arrives by email. Open your completed response, print it, and file it before the deadline.

Get Started

Build your defense package.

Pick your package, enter the details from your chargeback notice, and submit. After payment, the finished documents are generated for you — filled in, ready to print and send.

Edition
Your Business
The Transaction
The Dispute — from your chargeback notice
Banks & Processor
Delivery — if applicable
Your Contract & Force Majeure
Where to Send Your Unlock Code

No payment is taken on this page. You'll receive Zelle instructions next.

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Your order number:

Pay $25 by Zelle to finish:

  1. In your banking app, open Zelle and choose "Send to someone new" — you'll add us as a new recipient.
  2. Choose Email and enter: chargebackdefense01@gmail.com
  3. When your bank asks for the recipient's name, enter ProtoDynamics LLC — that's us, the business behind this kit.
  4. Send $25, and put your Order # in the memo / note.
  5. Watch your email — your unlock code arrives once your payment is matched, usually within minutes.

When your code arrives, enter it in the box below to open your completed documents.

Already have your code?

Enter your Order # and the unlock code from your email to open your finished documents.

Paid but didn't get your code?

Enter your Order # (shown right after you submitted), the email you used, and your Zelle confirmation number (on your bank's payment-sent screen or email) — and we'll open your documents. Just paid? Give us a couple minutes to see it first.

Prepared Server-Side

Your details go straight into document generation and are stored only long enough to deliver your kit. Never sold, never shared, no trackers.

Built on Cited Authority

Card-network rules, publicly available legal authorities, verified court rulings, and federal regulatory frameworks — cited in your documents.

Document Preparation

Not legal advice, and no attorney-client relationship. Every document is marked DRAFT for your review before you file it.

On Record with the CFPB

Your kit includes a copy to place on federal record — independent, timestamped proof that you responded on time.

Free — Know the Fight

Understand what you're up against.

Optional reading. Open any topic — or skip straight to your defense package.

How one chargeback hurts your whole business

You already paid for the work. The materials, the labor, the shipping — that money is gone, spent, sunk. Then something outside your control stops the delivery, the customer files a chargeback, and the bank doesn't just claw back that one sale. It sweeps your operating capital — the cash you need to fill everyone else's orders. One bad-faith dispute cascades into a dozen customers served late, or not at all.

Sunk cost Force majeure Chargeback Bank sweeps operating capital Other customers' orders suffer

The dual enrichment nobody talks about

When a chargeback goes through, the bank collects two to three times the transaction in fees, and the customer keeps the money — often the product too. Two parties get richer. One party pays for all of it: you. The banks earn fees on every dispute and bear none of the loss, so nobody inside the system is coming to help. The merchant who fights back is the only correction the system has.

Why you win: three rulebooks turned against them

The same paperwork the banks rely on is the paperwork that beats them. Three separate rulebooks, and every one has language on your side:

Rulebook 1

The bank's own merchant agreement

The contract your acquiring bank made you sign cuts both ways. It binds them too.

Rulebook 2

Your Terms of Service

Your published terms — all-sales-final, dispute terms, force-majeure clause — are a contract the customer accepted.

Rulebook 3

The card-network rules

Visa, Mastercard, and Amex publish the reason codes and deadlines. Cite their own rules back at them.

File on time — and keep federal proof you did

The whole game is one move done right: file your one response before the network deadline, through your bank or processor's dispute portal. Then do the thing almost no merchant does — put a copy of that response on record with the CFPB. When you submit through Wix, PayPal, or your processor, it can vanish with no confirmation, and the bank can later claim you never responded. A copy on file with the CFPB is an independent, timestamped federal record that you responded on time and did your job.

If the bank rejects your first response — they often do, just to see if you quit — you resend the same response. Calm, on time, on record.

Know the players
Acquiring Bank

Your bank

Holds your merchant account. Supposed to protect you. Usually doesn't — it makes fees either way.

Issuing Bank

The customer's bank

Issued the customer's card. Sides with the cardholder almost every time.

Processor

Square / Wix / PayPal

Runs the transaction. Sides with the issuing bank, because that's who it answers to.

The seven-term cheat sheet

Every chargeback notice uses these words. Learn them and the bank's letter stops being intimidating.

Card Network
Visa, Mastercard, American Express, or Discover — the company that sets the rules and the reason codes everyone has to follow.
Network Deadline
The hard date by which you must submit your rebuttal. Miss it and you lose automatically — usually 7 to 30 days from the dispute notice.
Acquiring Bank
Your bank — the one that holds your merchant account and processes your sales. The one that's supposed to be on your side.
Issuing Bank
The customer's bank — the one that issued their card and approved the chargeback against you.
Processor
The middleman that runs your payments — Square, Wix, Stripe, PayPal. They route the dispute and answer to the issuing bank.
Reason Code
The numeric code the card network puts on the dispute (e.g., Visa 13.1, Mastercard 4853, Amex C08). It tells you exactly what you must rebut.
Carrier
The shipper that delivered the goods — UPS, FedEx, USPS. Its tracking and delivery confirmation is some of your strongest evidence.
Questions

Common questions.

What is chargebackdefense.us?

It is a self-service document-preparation kit for small-business merchants disputing a wrongful chargeback. You enter your dispute details, pay by Zelle, and the finished documents are generated for you to print and file. It is document preparation, not legal advice.

What documents do I get?

The $25 Defense Kit generates four documents: an Evidence Worksheet, your one chargeback response to file through your bank or processor’s dispute portal, a copy to put on record with the CFPB, and short guidance for resending if the bank rejects your first response. The $99 tier adds a chargeback-prevention page plus publish-ready merchant Terms-of-Service and Privacy-Policy templates.

How do I pay, and how do I receive my documents?

Payment is by Zelle only, through your own bank — we never see your card or bank credentials. After your payment is matched, an unlock code is emailed to you; you enter your order number and code on the site to open your finished documents.

Is this legal advice?

No. It is a document-preparation service based on business experience, publicly available legal authorities, verified court rulings, card-network rules, and federal regulatory frameworks. It is not legal advice and creates no attorney-client relationship. Every document is marked DRAFT for your review.

What is the network deadline?

The network deadline is the hard date by which you must submit your rebuttal to the card network — usually 7 to 30 days from the dispute notice. Miss it and you lose automatically, so the kit is built around filing your one response on time.

Why put a copy of my response on record with the CFPB?

When you submit a dispute response through a processor like Wix, PayPal, or Square, it can vanish with no confirmation, and the bank can later claim you never responded. A copy on file with the CFPB is an independent, timestamped federal record that you responded on time.

What is the Force-Majeure edition?

It is an edition of your response that adds a UCC § 2-615 defense for when something outside your control — a supplier failure, a carrier strike, or a government order — stopped the delivery behind the disputed sale.