Restricted Merchant List
The following categories and business types are not eligible for BizFunds® merchant funding. If you have questions, contact us.
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- General Contractors/Residential and Commercial
- Cruise Line
- Air Carriers, Airlines – not elsewhere classified
- Telecommunication Service Including Local and Long Distance Calls, Credit Card Calls, Facsimile Services (also Calls through use of Magnetic Stripe – Reading Telephones)
- Computer Network/Information Services
- Money Transfer – Merchant
- Computer Software Stores – Record Shops (Debit only)
- Direct Marketing – Travel-Related Arrangement Services
- Direct Marketing – Outbound Telemarketing Merchants
- Direct Marketing – Inbound Telemarketing Merchants
- Direct Marketing – Continuity/Subscription Merchants
- Quasi Cash – Merchant
- Dating & Escort Services
- Consumer Credit Reporting Agency
- Information Retrieval Services
- Computer Maintenance, Repair, and Services not elsewhere classified
- Betting – Including Lottery Tickets, Casino Gaming Chips, Off-Track Betting, and Wagers at Race Tracks
- Bail & Bond Payments
- Buyers clubs / Membership clubs
- Credit counseling or credit repair services
- Credit protection / identity theft protection
- Infomercial merchants
- Multi-level marketing businesses
- Outbound telemarketers
- Prepaid phone cards
- Rebate-based businesses
- "Up-sell" merchants