{"slug":"enable-credit-card-payments","title":"Turn on credit card payments","description":"Turn on credit and debit card payments so vendors can pay their invoices online instead of only by cash or check.","section":"organization","sections":["organization"],"tags":["credit card","payment processor","payments","invoices"],"aliases":["accept credit cards","turn on card payments","merchant account"],"updated":"2026-09-09","published_datetime":"2019-09-22T12:00:00.000Z","promoted":true,"related":[],"links":[],"images":{},"video":null,"source_commit":"a8864d3","body_format":"markdown","nav":{"section":"organization","group":"Run an organization","previous":{"slug":"how-to-create-a-marketspread-organization","title":"How to create a Marketspread organization"},"next":{"slug":"custom-payment-methods","title":"Create a custom payment method"}},"related_articles":[],"body":"Turn on credit and debit card payments so vendors can pay their invoices with a card, instead of only by cash or check. It's set up once for your organization, and every market under it shares the same payout account. Setting it up needs some details about your business, its bank account, and the person responsible for it.\n\n## Turn on credit and debit card payments\n\n1. From your organization's dashboard, open **Settings**, then click **Payment Methods**.\n2. Next to **Credit & Debit**, click **Enable**.\n\n![The Payment Methods page, with Credit & Debit's Enable button](https://articles.marketspread.com/images/enable-credit-card-payments/01-payment-methods.png)\n\n3. Fill in your **Business type**, **Legal name** (unless you're a sole proprietor), **Tax ID**, **Business address** and **Business established**.\n\n![The Enable Credit & Debit form, starting with the business's details](https://articles.marketspread.com/images/enable-credit-card-payments/02-enable-credit-debit.png)\n\n4. Fill in the business representative's legal name and date of birth, plus their Social Security number and address (unless you're a sole proprietor).\n5. Fill in your bank's **Routing number**, **Account number** and **Confirm account number**. It must be a checking account.\n6. Agree to Payrix's **Terms of Service**.\n7. Click **Enable**.\n\n!!! note\n    If your account is outside the United States, clicking **Enable** takes you straight to Stripe's own sign-up instead of this form.\n\n!!! note\n    Once you submit, you can't come back and change these details from this form. Contact Marketspread support if you need to update them afterward.\n\nOn the **Payment Methods** page, **Credit & Debit** shows **Verifying** while your application is reviewed, then changes to **Enabled** once it's approved, or **Declined** if it isn't.\n\n## Turn off credit and debit card payments\n\n1. On the **Payment Methods** page, next to **Credit & Debit**, click **Disable**.\n2. Click **Disable** again to confirm.\n\nYou need at least one payment method turned on, so **Disable** isn't there if this is your only one."}