Integration and Testing

Learn how to test minFraud services, and integrate them using an API or plugin.

  • Approaches to Testing

    In order to test the minFraud service you will need to purchase service credit or be approved for a free trial. You can buy service credit or request a free trial of minFraud on our main website. ...

  • Sandbox for the minFraud services

    The Sandbox version of the minFraud services do not use the minFraud scoring engine. They are not appropriate for evaluating the effectiveness of minFraud’s risk scoring, but instead for testing b...

  • Set Up Device Tracking

    The device tracking add-on helps catch fraudsters who change proxies while they are browsing your website or between visits to your website. Device tracking is easily implemented at no extra cost w...

  • Report Transactions

    The minFraud service allows you to report transactions, which will fine tune your risk scoring. For example, if the minFraud service returns a high risk score for a transaction, and you determine t...

  • Receive minFraud Alerts

    When the minFraud service scores a transaction with a risk score of less than 10, we continue to monitor that transaction for 24 hours. During that time, if we receive new information that would ca...

  • Latency and Uptime for the minFraud Web Services

    The minFraud web services are fast and reliable, with around 99.9% uptime since 2013. In the table below, you can see more precise uptime measurements per service, and internal latency for the serv...

  • Disable IP Risk Scoring

    In certain cases, you may wish to exclude an IP address or network from being used for risk scoring. When IP risk scoring is disabled for an IP address, this also disables velocity checks for that ...

  • API Endpoints for minFraud services

    Please note: Beginning in March 2024, MaxMind will begin enforcing its policies around API requests and endpoints. We will require use of the HTTPS protocol for all requests, and will require requ...