I asked PayPal for their advice, and on that advice I keep email confirmation, IPs and timestamps of download, login, registration and payment IPs, billing address, etc. -- doesn't seem to help when I submit it all as evidence.
Once I explain that I can simply refund them and it's quicker and easier, but they have to withdraw the dispute, it should happen.
If they actually stick to their story or go dark? I don't think I've heard many stories of Paypal siding with the business especially for digital goods.
First I reach out to the person over email and kindly ask them why they disputed the charge with a number of things we can do as an alternative.
If they don't reply within a few days then I contest the dispute with piles of evidence that the user indeed signed up to my platform and downloaded / consumed the content.
I don't recall paying extra for Radar and I definitely received an early warning from them, but after the transaction went through. It's apparently included on standard Australian pricing but costs an extra $0.08 per transaction if you're on a negotiated rate. Good to know.
I've won 100% of the disputes where it was pretty clear the person wanted to just grab the content for free and then do a charge back. The problem is Stripe not blocking the real fraudulent transactions where a bad actor stole someones credit card and signed up with that. These are the ones where I've lost 100% of the time (for good reason since it was fraud). Stripe didn't prevent those from occurring where as PayPal has blocked every single fraudulent transaction before it took place and I didn't have to sign up for extra fees or lift a finger to get that protection.
To my understanding (and I may be wrong) with Braintree the customer would still see PayPal's branding if they check out via PayPal. They would see something like this: https://articles.braintreepayments.com/img/developers/pay-wi...