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Vortex IQ Nerve Centre tracks 30 KPI pulses for Viva Payments stores. Each metric has its own page: definition, calculation, why it matters, and what to do when it moves. Viva Payments (legally Viva.com, formerly Viva Wallet) is a Greek-origin pan-European payment institution with a distinctive position in EU commerce: Mediterranean-led, omnichannel-first, and structurally cheaper than Stripe or Adyen for SMB merchants in Greece, Cyprus, Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Romania. JP Morgan Chase acquired 49% of Viva in 2023 with an option to ramp to majority control, giving the platform globally-systemic balance-sheet credibility while preserving the operational autonomy and SMB-friendly pricing that earned its merchant base. Three things distinguish Viva from the wider PSP landscape, and three things make tracking Viva’s KPIs meaningfully different from tracking Stripe or PayPal:
  1. Native multi-currency settlement. Viva settles directly in 13+ currencies (EUR, GBP, RON, CHF, USD, BGN, HRK, HUF, PLN, CZK, DKK, NOK, SEK) without forced FX conversion. A Greek merchant accepting GBP from UK customers can settle to a GBP IBAN without paying the 1% FX spread Stripe charges. Vortex IQ tracks each currency separately on revenue, refunds, and pending-payouts cards, no roll-up to a single FX-converted figure that would distort reality.
  2. Omnichannel unified reporting. Smart POS card-present captures, online Smart Checkout, recurring rebills, marketplace splits, and pay-by-link all flow through the same /api/transactions endpoint as Type = Capture. Most competing PSPs require splitting POS from online manually; Viva’s single feed is structurally simpler. Our cards preserve this unification by default and expose channel-mix splits in the worked examples where it matters.
  3. 3DS 2 frictionless calibration. PSD2 SCA mandates 3DS challenges on EEA card-not-present payments above EUR 30. Viva’s Smart Checkout typically achieves 75 to 85% frictionless rate by feeding strong device + transaction risk data to issuers, which is structurally better than the EU averages. We track three 3DS-adjacent metrics (decline rate, success rate, 3DS abandon rate) so merchants can distinguish between issuer-rejection (decline), customer-give-up (abandon), and frictionless-vs-challenge (success-rate-at-rail).
Why Vortex IQ tracks Viva: the EU subscription, DTC, and omnichannel SMB segment is where Viva concentrates, and these merchants need reconciliation discipline that respects the multi-currency native settlement (no false FX conversion), the omnichannel unified data model (no artificial channel splits), and the lower-fee pricing that requires careful working-capital tracking (Viva-IBAN instant rail vs SEPA T+1 to T+3 has real CFO implications). We also track Viva because JP Morgan ownership has accelerated CFO attention to EU PSP options; merchants increasingly evaluate Viva as a Stripe-alternative on cost and settlement speed, and they need the data to make that case.
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3DS Abandonment RateNon-Hero-Transaction Healthgauge
Average TransactionNon-Hero-Volumekpi
Average TransactionNon-Hero-Revenuekpi
Avg Settlement Time (days)Non-Hero-Settlementkpi
Card vs Customer Country MismatchesNon-Hero-Geographykpi
Chargeback RateNon-Hero-Refunds & Disputesgauge
Decline RateNon-Hero-Transaction Healthgauge
Decline RateNon-Hero-Transactionsgauge
Dispute RateNon-Hero-Refunds & Disputesgauge
Net Revenue (after refunds)Non-Hero-Revenuekpi
Oldest Pending Payout (days)Non-Hero-Settlementkpi
Oldest Pending Payout (days)Non-Hero-Payoutskpi
Payment MethodsNon-Hero-Transactionspie
Pending PayoutsNon-Hero-Settlementkpi
Pending PayoutsNon-Hero-Payoutskpi
Refund RateNon-Hero-Refunds & Disputesgauge
Refund RateNon-Hero-Refundsgauge
Refund ValueNon-Hero-Refundskpi
Refund VolumeNon-Hero-Refunds & Disputeskpi
Refunds Over TimeNon-Hero-Refundsarea
Revenue by CountryNon-Hero-Geographybar
Revenue Over TimeNon-Hero-Revenuearea
Success RateNon-Hero-Transaction Healthgauge
Successful TransactionsNon-Hero-Transactionskpi
Top Decline ReasonsNon-Hero-Transaction Healthbar_horizontal
Top Payment MethodsNon-Hero-Transaction Healthpie
Total RevenueNon-Hero-Revenuekpi
Total TransactionsNon-Hero-Volumekpi
Total VolumeNon-Hero-Volumekpi
Volume TrendNon-Hero-Volumearea

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Cross-connector reconciliation guidance

When Viva is the routed processor for a Shopify, BigCommerce, or Adobe Commerce store, Viva’s volume should reconcile against the commerce platform’s Total Revenue with one important inequality: viva ≤ commerce_total. The commerce platform sees orders paid by every method (Stripe, PayPal, Klarna, Apple Pay direct, gift cards, manual bank transfer, vouchers); Viva sees only Viva-routed orders. For Mediterranean merchants using Viva as primary processor, expect Viva to cover 70 to 95% of online revenue. When the same merchant runs Viva alongside Stripe or PayPal, the three payment-processor volumes summed should approach the commerce-platform total: viva + stripe + paypal ≈ commerce_total. They should never exceed it; if they do, suspect double-counting (a marketplace split routed through both rails) or refund / chargeback timing mismatch. For multi-currency merchants, never compare an FX-converted Viva total against a single-currency commerce total without explicit conversion. The Viva Dashboard offers a “Total in EUR equivalent” toggle for convenience; our cards preserve native currency by default because FX-converted aggregates distort treasury planning where settlement actually happens in the native currency.

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Common merchant questions

“When does Viva data refresh?” Per sync window, typically 5 to 15 minutes. Most cards reflect activity within the last 15 minutes; “today” cards may have a slight tail-lag, “yesterday” and earlier are caught up. “Can I reconcile this against my Viva-IBAN bank statement?” Yes, the Net Revenue card minus Viva fees should land within ±0.5% of your Viva-IBAN deposits for the period. Variance comes from refund timing across period boundaries and held-reserve cycles. For a clean reconciliation, use the Settlements view in the Viva Dashboard alongside this card. “How do dispute timelines compare to Stripe / PayPal?” Viva follows Visa / Mastercard scheme rules identically to Stripe; resolution typically takes 30 to 90 days from dispute opening. PayPal Buyer Protection runs on a faster, less evidence-heavy cycle (15 to 45 days), but produces higher dispute rates as a result. “Is JP Morgan ownership going to change anything operationally?” Not at the API, fee, or settlement level as of dd MMM yy. Day-to-day operations continue under existing Viva regulated entities. The CEO-relevant takeaway is balance-sheet credibility (a globally systemic bank backs the platform), not workflow change. In CEO conversations the question that comes up most often is whether Viva is “real” enterprise infrastructure or a regional SMB experiment. The honest answer is the latter packaged inside the former: Viva grew up serving Greek and Mediterranean SMBs at fees domestic acquirers couldn’t match, and JP Morgan acquired the underlying license and customer base because the regional density and instant-settlement rail are genuinely hard to replicate from scratch in the EU regulatory environment. The KPIs in this catalogue surface that reality: omnichannel unified reporting, native multi-currency, instant settlement to Viva-IBAN, and 3DS 2 frictionless rates that beat the EU average.