FAQ
The questions people actually ask.
26 questions in 4 groups, answered with the caveat inside the answer rather than underneath it.
8 questions
What Revient is
What is Revient?
Revient works on chargebacks you have already lost. It finds the lost disputes on your store, retrieves the records attached to them, and checks whether the debt is fair to pursue and can be shown. Where a case is eligible you can route it to an approved collection agency or sell it to an approved buying organisation.
Do you reverse chargebacks?
No. The bank's decision stands. Revient does not challenge it, appeal it or re-present the dispute. What it works on is the debt left behind once the money has already gone.
What is the difference between Recover and Sell Now?
With Recover you keep the receivable and an approved collection agency pursues it on your evidence; you are paid as the customer pays. With Sell Now an approved organisation offers to buy the receivable outright.
Accepting an offer is not the completed sale. Ownership moves only once the funds are verified and the assignment conditions are met, and Revient keeps those as separate states so a case is never shown as sold before it is.
Which platforms do you support?
Revient includes Shopify, WooCommerce / WordPress, BigCommerce, Magento, Adobe Commerce, Squarespace and Custom API connection flows. Wix uses CSV import. Gmail and Microsoft 365 / Outlook provide selected case correspondence. Each source has a setup guide under Resources; live verification still requires an authorised provider account.
How long does setup take?
Follow the guide for your platform under Integrations. Once connected, Revient imports your lost chargebacks and shows its progress as it checks each one.
Only chargebacks you lost become cases. A lost chargeback missing some details shows Needs information so you can add them. Open and won disputes are left out.
How far along is Revient?
Store connections, imports and evidence checks are running. Recover and Sell Now are built and open in each market as approved agencies and buyers join it.
Payouts start once Revient's payment provider account is approved. The trust page lists where every part stands, including what is not built.
What does Revient cost?
£29.99 a month, including one store on each integration. Each extra store on the same integration is £7.99 a month. Manual cases, imports, the custom API, Gmail and Outlook are included at no extra cost.
New workspaces start with a 14-day free trial covering up to 10 cases. Cancel before it ends and you are not charged.
On Recover, Revient takes 5% of the money recovered and the agency's commission comes out of the rest. On Sell Now, the Revient fee is shown on each offer before you accept. The fees are fixed on a case when the work is accepted, so a later change cannot reach work already under way.
Can I remove a case from active work?
Use Archive to remove it from the active list while retaining evidence and history, and Restore to return it. Reimporting the same source does not restore it automatically. Active recovery, sale, payment or settlement obligations can prevent archiving and show a reason.
10 questions
Access, data and security
Do you touch payments in my store?
Revient's commerce connectors read evidence; they do not call store endpoints to change orders, issue refunds or take payments. Use the minimum permissions in the provider guide. Some provider permission groups are broader than the read operations Revient uses, and the guide identifies those exceptions.
What data do you access?
Relevant orders and genuine dispute records, including available order-time customer/contact and address details, refunds, returns, fulfilments and transaction references. Importing an order alone does not establish a dispute. The connectors do not need full card numbers or a customer-wide export.
Missing, restricted and unsupported source fields remain unknown. For Shopify, protected customer data access is separate from ordinary scopes; adding read_customers alone does not grant access to protected fields.
Will you contact my customers?
Revient never contacts your customers. Where you release a case to an approved collection agency, that agency makes contact under the permissions it holds in that market, and only on the cases you released.
What happens if I disconnect my store?
New reads stop and connection-bound work checks the current connection before writing. Existing cases and their source history remain in your workspace. Evidence-testing records are retained until an authorised removal or replacement instruction; production retention periods remain unresolved in the draft legal documents.
Who can see my data?
Your workspace, and Revient staff acting on a support or operations task. Staff actions are recorded as staff, from the internal system, and are never made to look like something you did.
A partner organisation sees only the cases matched or released to it, and reading sensitive raw content is itself recorded. There is no pool of merchant data for a partner to browse.
Are you certified or audited?
No. Revient holds no third-party security certification and has not had an independent penetration test. Store and provider credentials are encrypted where they are stored, and the key is currently held by the application rather than by a managed key service.
This is on the trust page rather than hidden because a security answer that overstates itself is worse than a gap.
What happens after I connect or import?
Revient collects the records for each lost chargeback and runs its evidence checks. Only chargebacks you lost are scored, and Revient AI reads a case only where you have allowed it. Progress shows each stage and any failure. Ordinary orders are not treated as disputes.
A Shopify sync imports every confirmed lost chargeback, whatever the order's age. Carriers such as UPS delete tracking history after about 120 days, so Revient also uses the proof you submitted to Shopify when you disputed the chargeback. It reads that evidence from Shopify where Shopify grants access; otherwise upload the same files to the case under Add evidence. Revient reads a proof of delivery PDF or screenshot and counts the delivery when it names the order's tracking number. Existing cases keep refreshing.
A lost chargeback missing some details appears as Needs information. Open, won and pending disputes are skipped. Revient never guesses a missing fact.
What can Revient AI do?
It explains selected evidence and answers from your authorised case summary and Revient help. It cannot contact customers, release cases, sell receivables or make payments. The evidence checks and existing evidence keep working if Revient AI is unavailable.
Mailbox messages need a separate permission before Revient AI reads them. Revient encrypts what it stores from each AI answer and asks its AI provider not to keep the request, though that request alone does not guarantee the provider keeps nothing.
Do my cases train a shared model?
The current workflow keeps real corrections and review material within your workspace. Shared improvements use reviewed synthetic examples, and Gmail-derived material is excluded. Calling a model API does not retrain it. Changes need evaluation and approval before release.
Will tracking registration notify my customer?
Automatic tracking registration is limited to confirmed lost dispute cases and requires the operator to verify that tracking notifications are disabled. Revient omits customer contact fields. Carrier delivery, a signature and a photograph are separate evidence facts; an empty proof field is not proof of delivery.
4 questions
Money and outcomes
How do merchants get paid?
Money reaches you after it is confirmed as received. A partner reporting a payment is not the same thing, and Revient keeps the two apart until the payment is verified.
Once it is, the split agreed at the start is applied and the proceeds are paid out. Payouts run only through payment providers that have been configured and switched on, and Revient will not quote you a payout date it cannot stand behind.
How much will I get back?
Revient does not guarantee that any case will be recovered, in whole or in part. How well a debt can be evidenced is not the same as how likely a person is to pay it.
What the product will tell you honestly is which cases are not worth pursuing, and which ones should not be pursued at all.
What stops an unfair case being chased?
A refund that was already issued, a cancelled order, or your own records contradicting the claim are hard stops, not warnings. The case ends there, before anything else is looked at, and it is not offered to anyone.
Do you handle more than one currency?
Amounts are held in the currency the order happened in, as whole minor units, and are reported per currency. Revient does not add different currencies together to produce a single headline number, because that number would be wrong.
4 questions
Partners and buyers
Who can become a partner?
Professional organisations. Applications are reviewed by hand at organisation level, and approval is granted for specific capabilities in specific jurisdictions. Being approved to work one market does not approve you for another, and it does not approve you to buy.
Can an individual buy debt on Revient?
No. A receivable is only ever sold to an approved organisation holding an active debt-purchase approval for that jurisdiction. A person can use buyer functionality only as an authenticated representative of that organisation. Revient is not a retail marketplace and does not sell debt to private individuals.
How does an institutional buyer get approved?
You apply as an organisation and name debt purchase as one of the capabilities you are asking for. Applying records a request, and a request grants nothing.
Approval follows a documentation and jurisdiction review, and it is granted market by market. Being approved to collect in a market never grants approval to buy in it, and neither approval carries into a market that has not been reviewed.
What does an approved partner actually see?
Only the opportunities offered to that organisation, and only what the stage of the work justifies. Before an assignment exists the view is purpose-limited and carries as little personal data as the task allows.
Still deciding?
The trust page lists every control, what enforces it, and what Revient has not built yet.