Adult Business Merchant Account

With the emergence of OnlyFans and similar sites in recent years it has given influencers and the public the ability to create a revenue stream for themselves by selling content behind a protective paywall to their subscribers. This model of reaching a new audience and ultimately a payday has become very popular amongst the adult sector in particular as they take advantage of the OnlyFans payment solutions.

Whilst the OnlyFans model has exploded, the model of charging their content creators a fee of circa 20% has inevitably left a gap in the market for alternative providers to seize on this opportunity and create a rival brand that can provide the same service for less of a cut.

However – one common stumbling block that new providers come up against is obtaining a merchant account for an adult website as this is deemed to be “high risk” in the world of acquiring and payments.

With more traditional adult base businesses such as porn websites or even adult toys websites and shops struggling to obtain merchant services to enable them to take card payments due to acquirers not wanting to link themselves to this vertical through reputational management reasons, we at ePayment wanted to create an offering that would help the adult sector accept payments.