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Those clients weren’t “grandfathered”. You were processing payments for sketchy businesses that couldn’t possibly pass Stripe’s onboarding process through Conn

Those clients weren’t “grandfathered”. You were processing payments for sketchy businesses that couldn’t possibly pass Stripe’s onboarding process through Connect under your merchant id. This payment aggregation is, of course, against card network rules so you got fined and placed on MATCH.

duskwuff 4y ago
Ooh, interesting point. I can't find Newsawp listed anywhere on archived copies of Flurly's "discover" page, e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20221208201631/https://flurly.com/discover https://web.archive.org/web/20221208201631/https://flurly.co... But there are some incredibly suspicious "products" listed, like "Creditcardpayment", which makes me suspect that some clients were using Flurly as a generic payment gateway, or that Flurly was processing other payments under the table.
- julianwachholz 4y ago
  You'd think if people were selling illegal products they'd be a little more subtle with their product descriptions? Might as well write "definitely drugs, 1.5 grams".
fragmede 4y ago
MATCH, for those outside the industry, is run by Mastercard as deny list, which means NO credit card processor is allowed to take you on as a merchant. It stands for Member Alert to Control High-Risk Merchants, and if you get on this list, you can't accept credit cards for five years.
- techpression 4y ago
  Thank you for the explanation of what MATCH is, I guessed something similar but had no idea about the five year rule.