Guides
Read the operating questions before you apply.
Short notes for merchants and partnership businesses. They explain the work. They do not offer a way around a processor. For the longer Stripe freeze, block and reserve briefings, use the briefing library.
Preparing for a processing assessment
What to gather before you ask whether a payment partnership can even be considered.
Understanding a suspension notice
How to read a processing suspension without treating another business’s account as a remedy.
Questions to ask before a payment partnership
A practical list for a business asked to process orders associated with someone else.
Processor permission versus account access
Why being able to log in is not the same as being allowed to process someone else’s sales.
Understanding settlement, reserves and disputes
The money questions that sit beside any conversation about a revenue share.
Documents needed for a business assessment
The records that let a reviewer see the business you have described.
Responsibilities in a third-party commercial relationship
What has to be named when one business’s customers pay through another business’s processing.