Can I sell this on Stripe, Shopify or PayPal?

None of the three name peptides, and that's the problem. Merchants read the silence as permission, build the store, and only find out where they stand when a review freezes the balance. A missing word means an underwriter makes the call later. It doesn't mean anyone said yes.

Stripe allows CBD in writing, on stated conditions about THC content, but that yes is narrower than most merchants think. Anything sold because it's intoxicating falls outside that permission, whatever the label says. Shopify Payments doesn't take CBD at all, so a Shopify store needs a third-party payment provider.

Supplements are the one category here where the clause is explicit, and it doesn't turn on what you sell. Stripe prohibits nutraceuticals that are unsafe or make harmful claims. An ordinary vitamin brand passes. Put disease language on the product page and the same brand doesn't.

Weight loss has every risk on this page at once. The product name is an outcome claim and the dispute rate is unusually high. With GLP-1s, the supply chain can also run into prescription-drug territory. Stripe names one weight-loss product specifically, and everything else is judged on its claims.

None of the three names kratom anywhere. It's also banned outright in several US states and unscheduled federally, so the legal answer, and with it the payments answer, changes depending on where the parcel goes. Processors deal with that uncertainty by saying no.

None of the three names SARMs. The nearest thing is PayPal's clause, which lists steroids right next to narcotics. That leaves SARMs in the worst spot there is. They aren't explicitly banned, so merchants assume they're fine, and they're close enough to a banned category that no reviewer will spend long on the difference.

This is the easiest category on the list to survive, and the one where merchants most often lose an account they could have kept. None of the three policies names nootropics, and a catalogue of caffeine, L-theanine and B-vitamins is low risk. Add one unapproved-drug compound and the whole account takes on that compound's risk.

This is the only category here where Stripe's prohibition hangs on a single word, and that word isn't "research". Stripe prohibits incorrectly labelled research chemicals. A real laboratory supplier with accurate labels is in a very different position from a consumer store using the term as cover.

Stripe names telemedicine and restricts it instead of banning it, so compliant telehealth is bankable. What decides your outcome is prescription fulfilment. A consultation platform and a business that ships the drug afterwards can have the same website and still be completely different to underwrite.

Stripe names e-cigarettes and allows them as long as they're sold lawfully, and since 22 September 2026 that means FDA-authorized products only in the United States. PayPal names cigarettes and prohibits them with no conditions, and since June 2026 Shopify doesn't allow vaping products on its platform at all. For most vape merchants the bigger problem is age verification and shipping law, because those are conditions of Stripe's permission, and failing them voids it after the fact.

Stripe allows firearms in limited circumstances. PayPal prohibits them, along with parts and accessories, and Shopify Payments names firearms, ammunition and holsters on its own list. Accessories are the trap. Merchants who don't sell a single firearm assume they're outside the category, then find out the policies cover parts and components too.

Stripe restricts exchanges and wallets, with limited availability. What merchants ask about most is taking crypto as payment for an ordinary product, and these clauses don't cover that. Running the exchange is what's regulated.

Stripe prohibits it by name, counselling included, and PayPal and Shopify Payments both name it too. A service business with no product risk gets treated more harshly than several of the ingestible categories above. What's being priced is the dispute rate and the regulatory attention.

The clearest answer on this page. Stripe prohibits adult content outright, and the prohibition covers text and imagery as well as video. PayPal prohibits "certain sexually oriented materials or services". No reading of either policy gets a mainstream processor to yes.