Re: Direct Checkout with partnership fein/ein
It's not just a matter of filing the correct paperwork and stepping through the proper loopholes, like adding a EIN to a PP account. When you sign up for direct checkout, you are doing it under personally, under your name, just as with a bank account. Direct Checkout is a merchant account just like authorize.net; etsy is just being the merchant service reseller, so to speak. Etsy doesn't do it any other way. However you do it, they will be verifying the SSN and doing a database check to confirm the information, as required by the government for a merchant account.
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