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Stripe rejected my account as an Indian indie dev. Here's what I did instead.

DEV Community·Tejas Giri·26 days ago
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I'd been building a quiz SaaS for about two months. Auth was working, the core product was tested, and I was finally ready to take payments. I created a Stripe account, filled in everything honestly, and submitted. Two days later I got the email. Account under review. Please provide business registration documents, GST number, and proof of address matching the registered business name. I'm a solo developer. I don't have a registered company. I don't have a GST number because I haven't earned a single rupee from this product yet. The whole point was to validate the idea first and incorporate later if it worked. I replied. Explained the situation. Asked what an individual creator without a company should do. Four days of silence. Then a generic reply telling me to provide the documents or the account would stay restricted. That was the end of my Stripe journey.…

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