POV: Your company has just been put on the "match list" 😅 #shorts

30 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief dialogue, Speaker A explains that being placed on a merchant "match list" results in comprehensive flagging of a business’s identifying information—including website URL, name, home address, and tax ID—making it effectively blacklisted. To continue operating, the affected party must create a new corporation and launch a new website, essentially starting over under a different identity. Speaker B confirms that this blacklist prevents the individual from obtaining any new merchant accounts for roughly six to seven years, and notes that some companies may refuse service permanently. The exchange highlights the severe, long‑term operational and financial hurdles faced by merchants who end up on the match list.

Yeah, you're going to have to have a new corp, a new website. Everything's on the match list. They'll put your website, your URL, your name, your home address, your tax ID. Everything is flagged. You're flagged. Everything's flagged. So you have to find a new person to put the business in? Pretty much. People have— I've had people do that before. Get a new site.
So you're saying that if I get on the match list, I can no longer get another merchant account? For about 6. Under my name ever?
6, 7 years. And some companies will never take you.
Damn!