Risk vetting and approval.
Businesses applying for certain PayPal products may be taken through our risk vetting process. It’s a simple procedure where we verify your personal and business documents to ensure the legitimacy of your business. The company financials may also be reviewed if it’s available. Businesses with good transactional performance history are able to skip this and adopt the products more quickly.
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Vetting process is initiated when you sign up.
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We’ll review your documents.
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We’ll contact you upon approval.
Vetting process
Vetting and approval is required prior to using products such as Website Payments Pro - Hosted Sole Solution and Virtual Terminal. However, merchants who are underwritten will not be required to go through vetting process.
| What do we need? | Why? |
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| Business registration certificate, tenancy agreements or bills that indicate your business address. | To verify your business identity, address and nature of business, including goods and/or services sold to ensure that it’s legitimate and genuine. |
| Phone interviews. | To validate information with merchants and/or their suppliers. |
| Financials such as bank statements or audited financials (optional). | To evaluate the credibility and stability of your business. |