Upload a document for merchant compliance

Technical

Note: Files must be uploaded as multipart/form-data

Process

The documents uploaded are required for a PayFac to remain compliant. Each document is used to verify the merchant account. At a minimum it is expected that each merchant will upload at least one document of the following types:

identity-document

A document showing who the merchant is, including their registered business address.

financial-document

A document confirming ownership of the method of payment to be used, for example, a bank statement.

business-registration

A document to prove that the details of the merchant have been registered officially with the relevant government agencies.

If additional proof is required, users can upload supplementary evidence with document type additional-verification.

File Requirements

  • Must be less than 20MB in size.

  • Must be an accepted file type

    FileMIME Type
    CSVtext/csv
    CSVapplication/vnd.ms-excel
    DOCXapplication/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
    GIFimage/gif
    HTMLtext/html
    JPEGimage/jpeg
    JSONapplication/json
    PDFapplication/pdf
    PNGimage/png
    SVGimage/svg+xml
    TIFFimage/tiff
    TSVtext/tab-separated-values
    TXTtext/plain
    XLSXapplication/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
    XMLapplication/xml
    ZIPapplication/zip
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