List of Prohibited Merchants

The following verticals cannot utilize Splitit in their stores:

Adult entertainment/materials 

Banks, Credit Unions, Mortgage lenders 

Blood & Organ banks 

Brokerage 

Call centers & answering services 

Collection agencies & debt buyers 

Contracted Management services 

Counterfeit goods 

Credit repair/Restoration/Reputation/Debt relief/Credit insurance/Credit card and identify 

theft protection 

Debt and Tax reduction services 

Discount travel clubs / subscriptions 

Energy Generation & distribution 

Escort services 

Factoring & Purchase order Financing 

Farming 

Financed payments via credit card 

Financial Transaction processing 

Firearms - Guns & ammunition sales or manufacturing 

Flea markets 

Fortune tellers/horoscope/astrologists 

Future service liability greater than one year 

Gambling / Gaming / Raffles / Lotteries 

Government & Non-profits 

Investment opportunities and advice 

Liquidation companies 

Logistics / freight forwarding 

Magazine subscriptions 

Manufactured / Mobile home dealers 

Massage services 

Medical marijuana from all types 

Mining 

Money services businesses 

Negative response marketing techniques by any type of merchant 

Non-Bank Finance Companies 

Non-truck-based freight transportation 

Nutraceuticals (or internet websites featuring Acai, Hoodia, Noni juice, HGH, Coral 

calcium, sexual enhancement, steroids, etc.) 

Online auctions 

Pay per click and parked websites 

Payroll companies 

Pornography 

Precious metal sales 

Products or services with unreasonable guarantees or claims 

Property managers 

Real Estate brokers/agencies/consultants/lessors 

Religious Organization 

Search engine optimization (SEO) 

Securities & commodities dealers/brokers 

Social networking sites 

Sports & performing arts groups or venues 

Sports forecasting 

Telecom merchants and transactions (pre-paid cards, rechargeable phone cards, 

recurring phone services 

Telemarketing companies with the following operations: free gift/prize with purchase of 

product, chain letters, sale of any prohibited product/service, hodgepodge product mix, 

solicitation with outbound phone calls via fax blasting, email spamming, etc. 

Timeshares/resellers/fractional ownership 

Title companies / Escrow agents 

Video rental 

Weight loss (none face to face)