So it’s likely your business category being high risk.
I worked as a designer for a very long time and assisted the team with web design at times. I’d personally signed up ~50 clients with stripe and only 2 had required additional verification at the start.
One very successful business had a temporary 2 week hold on their account during review due to ‘excessively high volume’ (£15k in 2 weeks) but was reviewed and hold removed within a week once supplied with details from their social media, materials invoices and photos of their workshop.
My team serviced around 15-20 other accounts and there wasn’t any reports of processing issues for those over the few years they were running, so wouldn’t have even been audited/verification requested.
So it’s likely your business category being high risk.
I worked as a designer for a very long time and assisted the team with web design at times. I’d personally signed up ~50 clients with stripe and only 2 had required additional verification at the start.
One very successful business had a temporary 2 week hold on their account during review due to ‘excessively high volume’ (£15k in 2 weeks) but was reviewed and hold removed within a week once supplied with details from their social media, materials invoices and photos of their workshop.
My team serviced around 15-20 other accounts and there wasn’t any reports of processing issues for those over the few years they were running, so wouldn’t have even been audited/verification requested.