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Can someone explain how stripe/square can get around the merchant account requirement?


As far as I understand it, Stripe IS your merchant account. They are similar to a Paypal type service. Does that help?


They are a third party payments aggregator (TPPA), just like PayPal when it started. They make it possible for merchants to accept credit card and bank transfers without the need to setup a merchant account with a bank or card association. The aggregator provides the means for facilitating payment from the consumer. The merchant is paid by the aggregator.


If I'm not mistaken they provide the merchant account implicitly.




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