High-Risk & Regulated Industries

Getting classified as high-risk by a payment processor doesn’t mean you can’t accept cards, it means you need to find...

CBD merchants have a payment processing problem that has improved significantly since 2019 but hasn’t fully resolved: most major card...

Legal cannabis businesses operate in one of the most payment-constrained environments in commerce. Despite being fully legal in dozens of...

Firearms businesses, gun dealers, FFLs, ammo retailers, parts and accessories sellers, face payment processing restrictions that can come without warning...

Supplement and nutraceutical businesses are automatically classified as high-risk by most payment processors, not because supplements are illegal, but because...

Kratom vendors face a specific combination of challenges: a product in a legal gray zone, payment processors that frequently terminate...

Delta 8 THC sits in one of the more complex positions in the hemp and cannabis space: federally legal under...

Peptide retailers occupy a specific corner of the high-risk payment landscape: the products themselves are often legal research chemicals, but...

A high-risk merchant account is not a second-tier product, it’s a merchant account designed for businesses that standard acquiring banks...

Credit card surcharging — passing the cost of card processing directly to customers who pay by card, is legal in...