Part of processing funds online with Stripe, Communal's payment processor, is verifying your organization and representative's identity. There are many different documents you can submit to verify your organization and representative.
Acceptable Representative Documents
Acceptable forms of identification:
- Passport
- Passport card
- Driver license
- State issued ID card
- Resident permit ID / U.S. Green Card
- Border crossing card
- Child ID card
- NYC card
- U.S. visa
Required information:
- Full legal name that matches the name in your Stripe profile
- Date of birth (DOB) that matches what’s in your Stripe profile
- Photo of person (except where exclusions apply)
Acceptable Entity/Organization Verification Documents
Acceptable forms of legal entity verification:
- IRS Letter 147C
- IRS SS-4 confirmation letter
Required information:
- Full company legal entity name that matches the legal entity name in your Stripe profile
- Tax ID from the local tax authority that matches what’s in your Stripe profile (excluding Canada)
- Company address that matches what’s in your Stripe profile
Bank Account Documents
Acceptable forms of bank account ownership verification:
- Bank account statement
- Check
- Bank letter
Required information:
- Account holder name
- Bank account number
Common Document Requirements
- Identity documents (including but not limited to passports and driver’s licenses) must be no more than one step removed from the original document:
- Document copies and scans must be in PDF format and taken directly from the original document; they can’t be processed, converted, or embedded in other files
- A picture of a physical document must be the original, unprocessed picture in JPEG or PNG format
- Screenshots aren’t acceptable
- When the back side of a document contains required information, include an image of the back side of the document
- Photos and scans of the Photo IDs must be in colour
- Photos of paper documents must be in colour, but scans of paper documents (not Photo IDs) may be black and white
- Images must not be low-quality
- Identity and legal entity documents must not be expired
- Documents must be readable and in a valid upload file format
- Documents must not be cropped or missing pages with crucial information, and all borders must be visible
- If the country of residence differs from the country of the account, a passport is required for identity verification