Psychic and spiritual services businesses — individual readers, reading networks, tarot platforms, and spiritual coaching practices — get declined by mainstream processors for a simple underwriting reason: the service is intangible, outcomes are subjective, and 'I didn't get what I paid for' disputes are hard to defend without the right documentation. Centurion places psychic businesses into merchant accounts structured around how readings are actually sold and delivered.
The viable billing models are well established: per-session bookings paid upfront, per-minute billing against a card on file (the reading-network model), and subscription clubs for ongoing guidance. Each has a specific dispute-defense playbook, and underwriters want to see you're running it.
There's no product to return and no objective delivery standard. A dissatisfied client's dispute comes down to documentation: booked session, delivered session, terms accepted.
Phone, video, and chat readings mean nearly all volume is remote, with fraud liability on the merchant.
The category has a fraud history that regulators and card networks remember. Clear disclaimers (entertainment/guidance, not professional advice) and honest marketing separate legitimate practices from the pattern.
Unhappy clients often demand full refunds after fully-delivered sessions. A published, consistently-applied refund policy is worth more than fighting every dispute.
Psychic merchants who win disputes all keep the same records: the booking (timestamped, with terms accepted), the delivery (session logs, call records, chat transcripts where consent allows), and the policy (refund terms shown before payment). Merchants who can produce all three win a meaningful share of representments; merchants relying on 'the session happened' lose. We set up accounts so this evidence is captured automatically by the payment flow.
We place psychic and spiritual services merchants with acquirers that underwrite the category on its actual mechanics, structure billing to generate dispute evidence by default, and set realistic terms for new practices versus established networks. Processing options may be available depending on underwriting, business model, location, processing history, and other factors.
Psychic services files focus on delivery documentation and marketing honesty:
Documentation requirements vary by processing partner and business model. This list is a general guide, not a universal checklist.
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