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Great to hear, I'm just praying they remove the need for a social security number in the US.

One of the main reasons we chose the US to incorporate in was for access to business tools like this. But with neither founder having a SS number we can't use the service.

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If you're signing up as a business, can't you provide an EIN instead of a SSN? I see the box for it in their account settings page, but since I'm using it as an individual, I haven't been able to test whether that works without an SSN.

Unfortunately you need a SSN and EIN.

https://answers.stripe.com/questions/if-i-have-an-ein-do-i-a...

I don't want to speak in Stripe's name but I suggest emailing Stripe and asking for an account based on EIN.

SSN shouldn't be published around since it is a key information to ones digital identity. I guess they do this for clients which are not companies.

The SSN requirement confuses me, especially as a US citizen with a US company. Whose SSN is the right one to use? Are they legally liable for events? Why require a single person's SSN when in reality it's the corporation's account, goes to the corporation's bank account, which the corporation gets charged corporation taxes.

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