On: Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors

[Aurornis]

Stripe (their payment process) will service adult content sites. It's not actually banned, but if your business is involved in categories with high chargeback rates (travel, gambling, cryptocurrency, vaping, adult content) you have to pay higher fees to account for the higher fraud rate in those categories

https://stripe.com/ie/resources/more/high-risk-merchant-acco...

[Scaled → Aurornis]

I applied to stripe recentlyish as an adult game project with excellent processing history and very low chargeback rate and got denied.

[kotaKat → Aurornis]

which is funny, because then they spin around and say they don't allow crowdfunding.

it's really asinine how stripe decides what is and what isn't allowed.

(see also: "oh, you linked your stripe to ko-fi? banned forever!" happened to me, it'll happen to you!)