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Inactive connected accounts offboarding

Learn how connected accounts can be affected due to inactivity.

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Manage inactive connected accounts

Inactive issuing accounts can pose a risk to platforms due to an increased chance for lost or compromised cards, which could result in transaction fraud. To mitigate this risk, Stripe disables the issuing capability on inactive connect accounts globally. Stripe sends notices to connected accounts that have lost access to Issuing due to inactivity. Preview the template along with customization options.

Note

If you previously received communication from Stripe about deactivating access to Issuing for connected accounts without Issuing activity, review this guide to understand additional changes coming with this update.

Inactivity criteria

Stripe disables Issuing on accounts that haven’t authorized any card transactions in the past 13 months (395 days). For accounts with additional capabilities, Stripe only disables Issuing if there have also been no payments or Treasury transactions in the prior 395 days, and the Treasury balance is $9.99 or less.

Identify disabled accounts

Stripe is introducing a webhook event that triggers 30 days (US) or 60 days (UK and Europe) before a connected account loses Issuing access due to inactivity. Listen to the capability.updated or account.updated webhooks with the card_issuing.activity parameter in the requirements hash. You can use this event to display or send notifications to connected accounts about the impending inactivity closure. When Issuing is disabled for inactivity, the connect account’s card_issuing requirements show a disabled_reason of rejected.inactivity and the card_issuing capability status is marked as inactive.

Effect of disabling Issuing for inactivity

When Issuing is disabled, all card authorizations from cards associated with this account are declined, but other capabilities such as payments and Treasury will remain unaffected. To reactivate Issuing on an account, re-collect the Terms of Service acceptance from the account and pass the new acceptance date and IP address in the tos_acceptance parameter of the Accounts API. Previously created cards in reactivated accounts will become active again and can be used for transactions.

Improve your user experience

Consider these updates for a better user experience:

  • Update your UX to indicate a card is disabled upon receiving “rejected.inactivity” disabled_reason.
  • Minimize inactive Issuing accounts by delaying Issuing capability requests until users show interest.

Impact to inactive cards or cardholders

Issuing is only disabled if all cardholders and cards within a connected account are inactive. There is no inactivity process for individual inactive cards or cardholders.

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