Strategy question

Merchants have reported that requiring billing details in Stripe Checkout is causing friction and negatively impacting conversion rates. How would you respond to this feedback?

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What this question tests

Whether you can balance conversion optimization against fraud and compliance needs when merchants push back on a required field.

Understand why billing details are required today, likely fraud prevention and card network compliance requirements like AVS checks.
Quantify the actual friction, look at drop off rate specifically at the billing details step versus other steps, since the complaint may be louder than the real data impact.
Segment by risk, since low risk, low value transactions may not need full billing detail collection while high value ones do.
Propose a solution: make billing address optional for low risk transaction profiles determined by a risk score, while keeping it for flagged or high value ones.
Test this as an experiment on a subset of merchants before rolling out broadly, since removing a fraud signal carries real risk.
Define success as conversion rate improvement without a meaningful rise in chargeback or fraud rate.

Does not simply remove the field on merchant complaint, first checks whether data supports the friction claim.
Proposes risk based conditional logic instead of an all or nothing change, which balances both concerns.
Sets a clear guardrail, fraud and chargeback rate, before committing to a broader rollout.

Removing the requirement for all merchants immediately just because of complaints, ignoring fraud risk.
Dismissing merchant feedback entirely without investigating the actual friction.

How would you explain a rise in fraud to merchants if it happens after this change?
How would you build the risk score used to decide who skips billing details?