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Financial services

Standard program

Credit repair payment processing

The Credit Repair Organizations Act dictates when you may charge, which makes the billing model itself the underwriting question.

Commonly assigned MCC

7321 · 7322

The category actually assigned is set at boarding and can differ from these.

Reviewed

The short version

CROA prohibits charging for credit repair services before they are fully performed. That single rule shapes everything about how a credit repair business can bill, and an account built on a model that ignores it is a liability the acquirer inherits.

Legitimate operators bill in arrears or on performance, disclose in writing, and honor the cancellation right. Underwriting is largely a check that your billing matches that.

What is actually being priced

What underwriting is looking at.

Advance-fee prohibition

Charging before performance is the fastest way to fail this file, and it is checked against your actual billing flow rather than your contract.

Outcome claims

Specific score-increase promises attract regulator attention and read as a decline at underwriting.

Delayed disputes

Consumers dispute months later when results do not match expectations, so ratio pressure arrives on a lag.

What their lists say

Stripe, Square and PayPal on credit repair.

Their own published policies, quoted verbatim and dated, next to where the category stands with our acquiring partners.

Stripe

Prohibited

“Credit monitoring, credit repair, and counseling services”

Square

Prohibited

“credit counseling or credit repair agencies”

PayPal

Prohibited

“certain credit repair, debt settlement services, credit transactions or insurance activities”

Dash Process

Standard program

Compliant arrears and performance billing models written; ACH offered for monthly fees.

What we ask for

In the product

What your application looks like from your side.

The same five stages we publish on the site, a named contact, and the document list for credit repair in one place — received, requested, or not needed.

How it works
Meridian Botanicals/Application
Sandbox
  1. Apply
  2. Underwriting
  3. Approve
  4. Integrate
  5. Live

Underwriting in progress

Acquiring review · Credit repair program · MCC 7321

In review

Documents · 3 of 4 received

  • Your service agreement and billing timingReceived
  • Marketing claims as they appear liveReceived
  • Cancellation and refund processReceived
  • Processing history by monthRequested
Illustrative · figures are fictional, not a quote

What we put in place

  • Acquiring programs that write compliant arrears and performance billing models
  • Recurring billing with clear pre-charge notification
  • ACH as a lower-dispute alternative to cards for monthly service fees
  • Representment built around service-not-rendered claims

What underwriting will ask you for

Assemble these before you apply anywhere. The list does not get shorter by waiting, and having it ready is the single biggest thing you control about how long this takes.

  • Your service agreement and billing timing
  • Marketing claims as they appear live
  • Cancellation and refund process
  • Processing history by month
Why each document is on the list

Questions

About credit repair.

Yes. CROA prohibits charging before services are performed, which rules out the up-front billing most processors expect. Our acquiring partners write arrears and performance-based billing models built around that rule; a model that bills up front is not underwritable.

Tell us about your credit repair business.

We will tell you which of our acquiring partners writes it and what your file needs before it goes anywhere.