🪪 How to Verify Your Financial Information following the KYC regulations

BookMeIn.Events uses Stripe to verify and process payments for Organizers with Professional or Custom/Bespoke Plans and is a seamless process for Australia, Europe, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In order to pay you promptly and securely, our onboarding process has two steps.

You submit "Know Your Customer" (KYC) information for your organization profile, you as Organizer must provide it to Stripe for review.

If Stripe needs more information, you'll receive a notification in your email account. You must provide accurate and complete information to avoid activation delays.

In this article

• BookMeIn.Events will NOT collects your financial information
• Stripe verifies your information behalf of us

Complete your organization profile

If you host paid events, BookMeIn.Events requires you to complete your organization profile to collect the required KYC information for each country you operate in. Before you start, make sure you know which organization type to select:

Individual  – An Individual or sole proprietorship is an unincorporated business that is owned by one individual. The individual has sole responsibility for making decisions, receives all the profits, claims all losses, and does not have separate legal status from the business. If you are an individual or sole proprietor, you should select "individual" as the "Organization Type" during onboarding.

Company  – If you filed documents to register your business with a government agency, your organization type is likely company. BookMeIn.Events is required to collect, verify, and maintain information about the company's owners—known as "beneficial owners"—and persons with significant control. A Company can take several forms, such as:

• Sole Proprietorship
• Single Member LLC
• Multi Member LLC
• Private Partnership
• Private Corporation
• Unincorporated Association
• Public Partnership
• Public Corporation

Non-profit  – If you filed documents to register your nonprofit with a government agency, your organization type is likely nonprofit. BookMeIn.Events is required to collect, verify, and maintain information about the company's owners—known as "beneficial owners"—and persons with significant control. Examples include:

• Incorporated nonprofit
• Unincorporated nonprofit

Add your bank account information

1. Choose your country and currency.
2. Provide the individual or company information.
3. Choose the bank account type and add your bank details.
4. (Optional) Check the box to set this bank account as the default for all your events.
5. Select Add.

Once you've added your bank account, the information you provided in your organization profile will be reviewed.

Stripe verifies your information

BookMeIn.Events shares the information you provide in your organization profile with Stripe. Then, Stripe uses global databases to verify that the information is correct. If you're unsure of the information you provided or want to confirm it's accurate, go to your Organization profile and select Edit to make changes.

If your organization is located in Canada and is a government entity or publicly-traded company, contact BookMeIn.Events Support to complete your Stripe verification.

If Stripe needs more information

If Stripe is unable to verify the information you provided or otherwise requires more information, you'll receive a notification when you log into your BookMeIn.Events account. You'll be redirected to Stripe to add this information. To begin the process, you may be asked to enter a mobile phone number to receive a text message. This is required for two-factor authentication (2FA) verification.

If the additional information is insufficient, you'll get another notification in your BookMeIn.Events account. The process is complete when no further notifications appear in your account.

Identity verification questions

Depending upon your organization type and country, Stripe may ask for any of the following to verify your Identity:

1. Full name: The name provided on your organization profile.
2. Last 4 digits of the bank account associated with BookMeIn.Events: Use the bank account information from the account you provided to BookMeIn.Events for your payouts.
3. Date of birth: The date of birth of the individual or owner of the company.
4. Amount last transferred to you: Check your bank account to confirm the most recent deposit from BookMeIn.Events.
5. Address associated with your BookMeIn.Events account: Use the physical address associated with the individual or company. P.O. boxes are not allowed.
6. Last 4 digits of your Social Security number: If you're hosting events as an individual, use your Social Security number (or the equivalent in your country). If you're hosting events as a company or nonprofit, use the Social Security number associated with the company's owner.

Verification documents

Requirements when uploading documents:

• Identity documents (including but not limited to passports and driver's licenses) must be no more than one step removed from the original document
• Document copies and scans must be in PDF format and taken directly from the original document; they can't be processed, converted, or embedded in other files
• A picture of a physical document must be the original, unprocessed picture in JPEG or PNG format
• Screenshots aren't acceptable
• Photos and scans of the Photo IDs must be in color
• Photos of paper documents must be in color, but scans of paper documents (not Photo IDs) may be black and white
• Images must not be low-quality
• Identity and legal entity documents must not be expired
• Documents must be readable and in a valid upload file format
• Documents must not be cropped or missing pages with crucial information, and all borders must be visible
• If the country of residence differs from the country of the account, a passport is required for identity verification

Acceptable forms of Identification:

When a person linked to a Stripe account (such as the Business Representative or Owner) resides in a country other than the country of the Stripe account, a valid passport is the only accepted form of ID for identity verification.

• Passport
• Passport card
• Driver license
• State-issued ID card
• Resident permit ID / U.S. Green Card
• Border crossing card
• Child ID card
• NYC card
• U.S. visa

Required information:

• Full legal name that matches the name in your Stripe profile
• Date of birth (DOB) that matches what's in your Stripe profile
• Photo of person (except where exclusions apply)

Acceptable forms of legal entity verification:

• IRS Letter 147C
• IRS SS-4 confirmation letter

Required information:

• Full company legal entity name that matches the legal entity name in your Stripe profile
• Tax ID from the local tax authority that matches what's in your Stripe profile (excluding Canada)
• Company address that matches what's in your Stripe profile

Acceptable forms of bank account ownership verification:

Documents must be less than 1 year old to be considered valid for bank account verification.

• Bank account statement
• Check
• Bank letter

Required information:

• Account holder name
• Bank account number

If you're having trouble completing the verification process

1. Review the information you provided on your Organization profile and confirm it's accurate. If you are being asked to provide documents you don't have, it's possible you selected the wrong organization type. If you need to make any changes, including organization type, select Edit.
2. Confirm you're uploading an acceptable verification document and ensure it is properly formatted. Please note that each verification document can only be used once. If you're asked to verify multiple pieces of information, you'll need to provide a different document for each requirement.
3. Confirm that all the information you've provided in the Stripe modal is consistent. You can't move forward if Stripe detects any mismatching information.

If you're unable to verify your account after providing Stripe with the information they requested, contact us.

Getting your payout

BookMeIn.Events sends your event payout based on your Subscription or after your Event ends or on the custom payout schedule we agree. To avoid delays with your payout, be sure to complete your organization profile and any additional verification requests in your BookMeIn.Events account.