Stripe question

[harran]

I keep getting banned from their platform because my business is considered not safe for their platform, I don’t do anything illegal, just receive money on their platform.

my question is, what type of business they consider “safe” using their platform? Yoga classes, selling baby toys or what? Im very frustrated.

they told me something like “your business is risk and we cannot support it, sorry”

 

[DustyBawls]

What are you selling?

 

[harran]

You will have safe registration with personal accounts, you've to agree with their term. However there loads of payment gateways which can be used on e-commerce sites to accept all kind payments.

Yes but my main target is Stripe. They banned my personal account and lost 4k$ for absolutely no reason, all they told me was “your business has high risk and we cannot support it” . My website and what I was selling was about instagram app for filters and a lot more with monthly payment plan.

Now my real question is, what they consider “safe business” ? Also if I try another account with business registered, you think it might last longer?

 

[Amaz0n]

Yes but my main target is Stripe. They banned my personal account and lost 4k$ for absolutely no reason, all they told me was “your business has high risk and we cannot support it” . My website and what I was selling was about instagram app for filters and a lot more with monthly payment plan.

Now my real question is, what they consider “safe business” ? Also if I try another account with business registered, you think it might last longer?

Blackhat marketing services are not safe business. It is pretty self explanatory.

 

[Mrnewbie]

Now my real question is, what they consider “safe business” ? Also if I try another account with business registered, you think it might last longer?

Check out their Prohibited and Restricted rules and don't do those as it's simple. https://stripe.com/legal/restricted-businesses

 

[Chris Newman]

what I was selling was about instagram app for filters

Anything at all whatsoever (even legit) to do with social media or social media platforms, is nowadays considered as "high risk" by Stripe, Paypal and other payment gateways.
Though your product or service is to do with filters for instagram (app or whatever), it may be legit : But, the fact that it is related to social media or social media platforms, Stripe, Paypal and other payment gateways, nowadays will consider it all under their "high risk" category. It is as simple as that. Solution ? Embrace crypto .... It is as simple as that.

 

[3corm3rcer]

Yes but my main target is Stripe. They banned my personal account and lost 4k$ for absolutely no reason, all they told me was “your business has high risk and we cannot support it” . My website and what I was selling was about instagram app for filters and a lot more with monthly payment plan.

Now my real question is, what they consider “safe business” ? Also if I try another account with business registered, you think it might last longer?

Did you read their restricted businesses before signing up?

 

[harran]

Check out their Prohibited and Restricted rules and don't do those as it's simple. https://stripe.com/legal/restricted-businesses

I’m curious if you really considered my service/app illegal or restricted business. It has absolutely nothing to do with blackhat / illegal stuff. It was just an app for filters and a few more things.

We haven’t asked for user credentials.

Anyway thanks for the reply.

 

[harran]

Bumping this

 

[Amaz0n]

Bumping this

Why? All has been said.

 

[harran]

Why? All has been said.

Because no one actually replied to my main question.

 

[Amaz0n]

Because no one actually replied to my main question.

All has been answered:

Check out their Prohibited and Restricted rules and don't do those as it's simple. https://stripe.com/legal/restricted-businesses

Anything at all whatsoever (even legit) to do with social media or social media platforms, is nowadays considered as "high risk" by Stripe, Paypal and other payment gateways.
Though your product or service is to do with filters for instagram (app or whatever), it may be legit : But, the fact that it is related to social media or social media platforms, Stripe, Paypal and other payment gateways, nowadays will consider it all under their "high risk" category. It is as simple as that. Solution ? Embrace crypto .... It is as simple as that.

Blackhat marketing services are not safe business. It is pretty self explanatory.

 

[SalvadorDale]

From my experience; nothing is safe. as soon as your revenue will increase they will start to put a close eye on your account and check every transaction.

 

[Amaz0n]

From my experience; nothing is safe. as soon as your revenue will increase they will start to put a close eye on your account and check every transaction.

No, because its all "AI" doing it. Nobody is checking anything manually except if the AI says so. Don't trigger it by having something wrong.

 

[SalvadorDale]

No, because its all "AI" doing it. Nobody is checking anything manually except if the AI says so.

The AI eye is worst than the human eye.

 

[Amaz0n]

The AI eye is worst than the human eye.

In the case of the op, the ai was right as he's obviously doing something dodgy

 

[SalvadorDale]

In the case of the op, the ai was right as he's obviously doing something dodgy

Diversifying your revenue streams across several accounts can help you avoid scrutiny, but this strategy may only work until you reach a certain size. (Thanks to AEYE)

Stripe and PayPal tend to prefer smaller accounts that don't attract attention. Consider distributing your income across multiple accounts and seeking advice from someone like @Willyfish ; spread yourself to multiple small fishes so you won't get too the attention of the ones who seeking big fishes scores

 

[Amaz0n]

Diversifying your revenue streams across several accounts can help you avoid scrutiny, but this strategy may only work until you reach a certain size. (Thanks to AEYE)

Stripe and PayPal tend to prefer smaller accounts that don't attract attention. Consider distributing your income across multiple accounts and seeking advice from someone like @Willyfish ; spread yourself to multiple small fishes so you won't get too the attention of the ones who seeking big fishes scores

Did you know that there are hundred thousands of businesses using Stripe/Paypal without issues? I have one Stripe/Paypal for my physical products business and have no issue whatsoever. They asked verification stuff, to check if this is a legitimate business and afterwards they never asked me again.

I have also made couple of backup Paypals and Stripes and other card processing, since 2 years they are unused. If you have a legitimate business, Paypal/Stripe won't hassle you.

Also, how does that help the op? He gets his accounts constantly banned, so, uhm, how would "spreading income to multiple Stripes/Paypal' help if he gets banned anyway?

 

[SalvadorDale]

Did you know that there are hundred thousands of businesses using Stripe/Paypal without issues? I have one Stripe/Paypal for my physical products business and have no issue whatsoever. They asked verification stuff, to check if this is a legitimate business and afterwards they never asked me again.

I have also made couple of backup Paypals and Stripes and other card processing, since 2 years they are unused. If you have a legitimate business, Paypal/Stripe won't hassle you.

Also, how does that help the op? He gets his accounts constantly banned, so, uhm, how would "spreading income to multiple Stripes/Paypal' help if he gets banned anyway?

So what you are saying here is that legitimate businesses not getting shutdown by Stripe or Paypal? pretty good joke.

 

[harran]

So what you are saying here is that legitimate businesses not getting shutdown by Stripe or Paypal? pretty good joke.

I’ve read somewhere that a girl opened a stripe account and business using their service called Atlas and they still banned her. For no reason at all.