Adult

Payments for adult businesses

Adult content, cam sites, dating with 18+ features and creator platforms are a classic high-risk vertical. Card schemes require specific brand protection rules, content monitoring and age verification, and many processors simply refuse the category. That is why adult payment processing is usually handled by specialised PSPs, acquirers with high-risk programmes, aggregators with cascading, and alternative methods such as crypto or local transfers.

What is on this page

Merchants in this vertical describe what they need — GEOs, volume, average ticket, subscription or one-off — and payment gateways and providers can reply. Providers can also publish an offer with their terms in the Offers tab.

How to choose an adult payment gateway

• Scheme compliance: support for Visa and Mastercard brand-protection rules, content review and age checks.
• Recurring billing: subscriptions, rebills, cancellation flows and descriptor clarity to keep chargebacks low.
• Rolling reserve and settlement: reserve percentage, hold period, payout frequency.
• Alternative methods: crypto processing, e-wallets, local payment methods.
• Fraud and chargebacks: antifraud tools and alerts.

An adult merchant account with a stable acquirer is worth more than a cheap one that closes after a month — ask how long the provider has worked with this kind of traffic.

Using the page

Switch tabs between Companies, Offers and Requests and filter by GEO and method. Related verticals: high-risk e-commerce and dating. To reach an adult PSP directly, post a request with your volumes and billing model.