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Stripe Issuing is restricted to business use cases; deploying it for consumer-facing payment purposes, even partially, is prohibited.
Interpretive note: The excerpt begins with a definitional statement of what constitutes consumer use and then lists examples with 'including'; the excerpt as provided is truncated after one example. Additional prohibited examples likely exist in the full document but are not present in the excerpt and are therefore omitted.
Individual consumers cannot be issued Stripe Issuing cards for personal, family, or household spending, and businesses cannot structure Issuing cards to access consumer funds for such purposes.
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"Consumer use of Stripe Issuing is when an Issuing card is created to fully or partially enable payments for personal, family, or household use, including: Providing a payment method loaded with or that accesses consumer funds...— Excerpt from Stripe's Stripe Restricted Businesses List
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Stripe Issuing is restricted to business use cases; deploying it for consumer-facing payment purposes, even partially, is prohibited.
Individual consumers cannot be issued Stripe Issuing cards for personal, family, or household spending, and businesses cannot structure Issuing cards to access consumer funds for such purposes.
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