Rolling Reserve

What is a rolling reserve?

A rolling reserve is a strategy targeted to take care of the merchant and its financial institution as well as to keep away from the possible loss because of chargebacks. The RR functions as a guard for chargebacks. If the organization is facing the dangers: longer delivery, subscriptions, it means that the higher the rolling reserve which will be figured by the acquiring financial institution. When the RR is used to a certain transaction, the money will be settled in one of the payments within the time interval which stated in the trader’s contract.

The RR represents the component of the bank’s RMS; it guarantees the availability of satisfactory liquidity in the eventuality of high chargeback scales. Furthermore, it can seriously affect the flow of funds for a new deal/business.

RR also means substantial protection of the customer and is usually applied at the first steps of the trader’s activity. During this time interval, the acquiring bank retains some percent from the entire transaction amount.

Simply put, a certain amount of money, is “secured” by the acquiring bank. The aim of these funds is to cover the possible losses from chargebacks. Banks make the RR on the basis of the transaction amount. This reserve may vary from 5% to 15%. These funds will be on hold (to cover any risks) for a certain period of time.