Stripe FA for Platforms Remote Check Acceptance Terms (Platform)

Last updated: December 19, 2025

This Addendum - Remote Check Acceptance Terms (“Addendum”) applies to your delivery of the Stripe FA for Platforms Remote Check Acceptance Service (as defined below).

1. Relationship to Stripe FA for Platforms Platform Terms

When you offer the Stripe FA for Platforms Remote Check Acceptance Services, you expressly agree to the terms and conditions of this Addendum, the Stripe FA for Platform -  Platform Terms, and any updates or modifications Stripe makes to either of the foregoing from time to time. This Addendum supplements the Stripe FA for Platforms - Platform Terms, which generally governs your use of Stripe FA for Platforms, and is incorporated into this Addendum by reference. To the extent that there is a conflict between the Stripe FA for Platforms Platform Terms and this Addendum related to Stripe FA for Platforms Remote Check Acceptance Services, this Addendum will prevail.

2. The Stripe FA for Platforms Remote Check Acceptance Services

Stripe FA for Platforms Remote Check Acceptance Service is a Preview Service through which you offer remote check acceptance capabilities to Stripe FA for Platforms Accountholders via Stripe APIs (“Stripe FA for Platforms Remote Check Acceptance Service”).  Each check acceptance initiated through the Stripe FA for Platforms Remote Check Acceptance Services is an Activity and a Financial Account Transaction.  

3.  Enabling Remote Check Acceptance

a. You will provide Stripe FA for Platforms Accountholders the ability to capture and submit images of checks they wish to present for acceptance through the Stripe FA for Platforms Remote Check Acceptance Service by embedding check imaging technology provided by Stripe into your mobile interface for Stripe FA for Platforms Accountholders.

b. You must transmit the check images of each check submitted for acceptance through the Stripe FA for Platforms Remote Check Acceptance Service to Stripe.  You must review all checks submitted for acceptance.  Stripe may conduct a subsequent review of all submitted checks and will deliver a digital copy of any approved checks to the FA for Platforms Bank for collection. If Stripe identifies an error for any check, it will notify you and you will communicate this determination to the applicable Stripe FA for Platforms Accountholder.  If the error can be corrected, you will give the Stripe FA for Platforms Accountholder an opportunity to do so and resubmit.  

c. In general, funds from checks will be available to Stripe FA for Platforms Accountholders within 5 Business Days after you transmit the applicable check details to Stripe.  

4. Restrictions on the Use of Stripe FA for Platforms Remote Check Acceptance Services 

a. You must not enable or allow any Stripe FA for Platforms Accountholder to use the Stripe FA for Platforms Remote Check Acceptance Services other than for the purpose for which they are provided and in accordance with all applicable Stripe FA for Platforms Remote Check Acceptance documentation;

b. You must communicate the limitations of the Stripe FA for Platforms Remote Check Acceptance Service to any Stripe FA for Platforms Accountholder with access to this Service, including:

(i) The Stripe FA for Platforms Remote Check Acceptance Service can only be used to accept checks which are denominated in U.S. Dollars and drawn on a U.S. bank, and  

(ii) Stripe FA for Platforms Remote Check Acceptance Services cannot be used to deposit U.S. savings bonds, U.S. postal money orders, remotely created checks (whether in paper form or electronically created), electronically created items (items created electronically and not derived from a paper check), convenience checks (checks drawn against a line of credit), traveler’s checks or cash.

5. Your Use of Stripe FA for Platforms Remote Check Acceptance Services

This Addendum does not apply to your own use of the Stripe FA for Platforms Remote Check Acceptance Services. If you wish to use the Stripe FA for Platforms Remote Check Acceptance Services, you will be subject to, and must comply with, the Stripe FA for Platforms Remote Check Acceptance Terms - Connected Accounts (and you will be considered to also be the Platform Provider for the purposes of those terms).

6. Indemnification

In addition to indemnification obligations under the Stripe Services Agreement and the Stripe Connect Platform Agreement, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Stripe, SPC, their vendors for Remote Check Acceptance Services and their respective employees and agents from and against any claim, suit, demand, loss, liability, damage, action, or proceeding arising out of or relating to (a) your breach of any provision of this Addendum or (b) your use of Stripe FA for Platforms Remote Check Acceptance Service in a manner that is illegal or inconsistent with the Stripe FA for Platforms Remote Check Acceptance Service documentation.

7. Termination  

The following will survive termination of this Addendum:

(i) provisions that by their nature are intended to survive termination; and

(ii) provisions that allocate risk, or limit or exclude a party’s liability, to the extent necessary to ensure that a party’s potential liability for acts and omissions that occur during the Term remains unchanged after the Addendum terminates.