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Businesses must accurately represent the merchants and products involved in their transactions at the application stage; processing outside those disclosed parameters is prohibited.
Businesses using Stripe may only facilitate transactions for disclosed merchants and for the products or services they identified in their Stripe account application.
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Businesses must accurately represent the merchants and products involved in their transactions at the application stage; processing outside those disclosed parameters is prohibited.
Businesses using Stripe may only facilitate transactions for disclosed merchants and for the products or services they identified in their Stripe account application.
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