Why prohibited-business findings are high severity and how merchants should determine whether the issue is true policy conflict or category ambiguity.
Prohibited business means Stripe believes the account may be operating in a category the platform does not support.
Decide whether the issue is a true policy conflict or an avoidable narrative mismatch, then tighten the public business description accordingly.
Why account termination happens and which policy, risk, or verification failures usually sit behind it.
Why adult-content offers create Stripe policy and reserve friction and how merchants should evaluate category fit and controls.
Why aggregated payment flows create Stripe concern and what merchants should prove about liability, merchant-of-record scope, and customer recourse.
Why a Stripe appeal gets rejected and which gaps in evidence, business model, or operating consistency usually cause the rejection.
Why digital-goods businesses face elevated dispute concern and what proof of access and expectation-setting matter most.
Why forex or crypto-adjacent activity creates higher Stripe compliance concern and how merchants should clarify category boundaries.