Placed on the TMF / MATCH list - What now?

A few months back I had my merchant account terminated because I was selling nutraceuticals on my back site. I wasn't worried at first, but since then I've been banned from Paypal, Stripe, Square, Venmo, Cash App, and just about every payment processor I've used. Again, not selling anything super sketchy here, just completely legal nutraceuticals. Now my bank account is getting dangerously low, and although I have a ton of products in high demand right now, I have no way to take my customer's money other than doing bank transfers, which is a huge pain in the ass.

Any merchants out there survive life after the MATCH list? Are there any overseas options I am overlooking? Any advice appreciated.

Also, all of my websites use Woocommerce.

- Vulg

You need to go non credit card route, it sucks I know but theres no way around it. You can create fraud accounts, not worth it imo just a waste of time.
Shoot my skype a message and i can go over all the routes.
Youre looking right now at a bank gateway, its going to suck but there are ways to get the clients on board with it.
Credit cards I do have a solution for as well but its honestly too expensive for most, 70%, yes you heard that right, it cost 30%. Its an option but not really unless you have huge markup (sarms, peptides etc)

Also are you SURE youre on a MATCH list? You received notification of this? Being banned from stripe etc does not mean MATCH. We may be able to set you up with a real direct merchant account and there you go, problem solved.

James2774 said:

Also are you SURE youre on a MATCH list?

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Absolutely sure. I've had banks tell me as such. Some brokers will submit me to underwriting just to get their commission, then I get to hear it from underwriting, but sometimes brokers will tell me flat out that they don't serve anyone on the TMF list.

I hit another deadend today. Any one else end up TMFd and what did you do about it?

vulgarvulgar said:

Absolutely sure. I've had banks tell me as such. Some brokers will submit me to underwriting just to get their commission, then I get to hear it from underwriting, but sometimes brokers will tell me flat out that they don't serve anyone on the TMF list.

I hit another deadend today. Any one else end up TMFd and what did you do about it?

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Ok yes youbreally aren’t getting off of it unless the company who put you on it takes you off.

What products are you selling?
You need to put bank/debit options up ASAP and convert some customers to that method of payment.
Depending on sales volume I can do it but it’s expensive 20% I won’t lie.

Once you get the other options up like echecks send out an email blast and offer discounts to returning customers to convert some to the new method.

Let me know what you end up doing - I’m in the same boat. Can’t get with any processors.

You may have already thought about this, but just putting it out there for anybody else that has not.
Your close friends and relatives are useful if you talk to them once in a while .

worked for me, so it is a viable suggestion.