Excluded Businesses

The following is a description of business models for which card acceptance is not supported or only supported subject to certain conditions.

Banned / illegal goods and services
Drugs and related accessories (intoxicating substances)
Pharmaceuticals and goods whose effect is doubtful
Sale of tobacco products
Outbound-Telemarketing
Sub-Acquiring / merchant aggregation
Investments, assets
Massage parlors and tattoo studios
Night clubs / Cabaret bars
Debt collection agencies
Church-like organizations or groups that do not have church status in Germany
Charitable societies (with the exception of known German charitable organizations)
Chain letters
High-risk telemarketing companies (horoscopes, predictions / forecasts of any kind)
Timesharing
Guarantees (long-term nature of contract makes risk difficult to calculate)
Replicas