Adds directorship declaration to the Accounts API

What’s new

You can now use the directorship_declaration.ip, directorship_declaration.date, and directorship_declaration.user_agent parameters under the company field in the Accounts API to attest that the list of directors on your Stripe account accurately reflects the directors of your company. This helps fulfill Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements.

Directors are individuals who are members of your company’s governing board. These persons are represented as directors on a Stripe account.

In certain countries, Stripe is required to collect the information of all directors of your company and verify that their information match government records. Accounts that are required to provide this information sees the company.directorship_declaration.ip and company.directorship_decalaration.date requirements in their requirements field.

After adding all directors to your account, attest that the list of directors is current and correct by setting the company.directorship_declaration.ip, company.directorship_declaration.date, and optionally the company.directorship_declaration.user_agent fields in the Accounts API. These fields represent the ip address, time, and browser user agent that were used at the time of attestation.

curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/accounts/
{{CONNECTED_ACCOUNT_ID}}
/ \
  -u "
sk_test_BQokikJOvBiI2HlWgH4olfQ2
:" \
  -d "company[directorship_declaration][ip]"="67.180.161.149" \
  -d "company[directorship_declaration][date]"=1737936000 \
  --data-urlencode "company[directorship_declaration][user_agent]"="Mozilla/5.0 (platform; rv:gecko-version) Gecko/gecko-trail Firefox/firefox-version"

If a discrepancy in your list of directors is detected, Stripe might request a new declaration by returning the company.directorship_declaration.ip, company.directorship_declaration.date requirements in the requirements field.

Impact

Some accounts might see a new directorship declaration requirement as part of the upcoming requirement updates.

Changes

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