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Stripe underwrites the business on the account. Additional websites are fine when they are honestly that business: same owners, products you disclosed, customers who can tell who they paid. They are not fine when the second site is a different merchant borrowing the standing of the first.
A second website does not reset the review.
What is actually moving
A restriction looks at the account, not at the domain you wish were separate. Pointing a new site at the same account, or a new account at a lookalike site, does not split the history. It adds a question: why does the story keep changing shape.
- Same owners.
- Disclosed products.
- A descriptor the customer can recognise.
- No borrowed standing.
What people confuse it with
If the sites sell different risk, say so before the volume arrives. Long-delivery goods hiding under a fast digital brand is a classic way a review starts.
Not a reinstatement method
What to do with it
List every site that can create a charge, and make the seller match.
- Name the legal entity once.
- Name each site and what it sells.
- Remove any site that is actually someone else’s business.
- If a notice arrives, do not launch a fresh domain as the reply.
What this briefing is not
Questions on this note
Can I add an unrelated brand to my account to help a friend?
No. That is their business on your standing. It is the sharing problem with a logo on top.
Will a new domain avoid a restriction on the old one?
No. The restriction is on the account and the people. A domain is not a person.
Continue in the briefing
Accounts
Stripe Statement Descriptors, Receipts and What the Cardholder Sees
How Stripe statement descriptors, receipts and checkout names cause unrecognised-charge disputes, and why they must name the real seller.
8 min
Accounts
A Trading Name Is Not a New Legal Entity
A brand, a DBA, or a fresh logo does not replace the company Stripe underwrote. The legal entity is the one the notice names.
11 min
Terms
Restricted Businesses, Prohibited Businesses and Stripe Account Risk
How Stripe’s restricted and prohibited business lists affect account freezes and closures, and why leaving a product line out of an application is not a fix.
9 min
Terms
Why Sharing or Borrowing a Stripe Account Is Not a Remedy for a Freeze
Why using someone else’s Stripe account after a freeze or block breaks the rules, puts both businesses at risk, and is not what a payment partnership is.
12 min