Merchant Payment Solutions

If Stripe shut down your account (or you expect it might), you are not alone. It’s true that Stripe shutdown adult merchants. Adult and dating categories regularly collide with mainstream PSP policies. Stripe’s restricted list includes adult content/services, Square’s restricted list includes adult entertainment oriented products or services, and PayPal policy restricts sexually oriented digital content and website subscriptions.

The goal is not to “find a loophole.” The goal is to build a compliant, stable high-risk setup that survives reviews, disputes, and monitoring programs.

Fraud prevention high-risk is not only about tools—it’s about controllable processes: routing governance, logs, access roles, and incident-ready operations. When buying or selling an MSB/EMI/PSP with a payment orchestration platform, gateway due diligence must verify what can actually run on day one: ownership of IP, real integrations, configurable routing/cascading rules, reporting, reconciliation, and security boundaries. Where card data is involved, PCI DSS responsibilities and supporting documentation must be clear, current, and accessible.
On the regulatory side, confirm the license/registration status and obligations: for Canadian MSBs, FINTRAC provides registration and registry references that buyers can use as a baseline verification.