The ComplianceSME app in the Stripe Dashboard

Link the ComplianceSME app in your Stripe account and it assesses your business's compliance needs in one go. It reads what your Stripe account already holds about the business and names the obligations that apply, the toolkit that covers each one, and the dates ahead.

The app is free to install and free to use.

The marketplace address, as text to copy if you prefer the address bar:

1. Open the address in the same browser as your Stripe account.
2. Install it. Press Install, choose the account, then press Continue on the permissions screen. The install finishes on your ComplianceSME account page.
3. Open the panel. Back in your Stripe Dashboard, open the app from the Apps tray, the four squares, or from App settings, Open app. The panel reads your account and shows your obligations.

The seven facts it reads

The app asks for two read-only permissions when you install it, and it uses no others. Everything below is read through your own Dashboard session, so a colleague who cannot see the account cannot see it through this app either.

Stripe's install screen carries Stripe's own standard platform-app wording about payments on Stripe's hosted pages; it appears for every app of this kind and is not a permission this app asked for.

• Country. The country your Stripe account is registered in, which sets the market your obligations are read against.
• Business type. Individual, company, non-profit or government entity, which is the legal form many obligations turn on.
• Merchant category code. The category your account already carries, which points at the sector rules.
• Product description and business website. The free-text lines on your Stripe business profile, read to work out what the business does.
• Headcount estimate and annual revenue band, where your account carries them. Several obligations start at a staff or turnover threshold. The panel names the facts it read and where each came from.
• Stripe Tax registrations. The countries you have told Stripe you are registered in, the scheme and the status of each, which is how the panel knows which markets you trade into.
• Whether the account can take charges, and your Stripe account identifier and Dashboard user identifier, which travel with the request so it can be signed and checked.

All of it is read only. Payments, customers, invoices, subscriptions, payouts, balances, bank details and card numbers stay in Stripe.

The facts listed above are sent to compliancesme.com, which returns the obligations, the toolkits that cover them and the dates ahead. The request is signed by Stripe and checked before it is read.

Nothing from your Stripe account is stored against a ComplianceSME customer record by the panel. Data read through the app is used to answer the merchant who asked. The full account is in section 6 of the privacy notice.

Whichever route you come in by, one place holds the work. Your compliance dashboard carries your obligation list, the toolkits on your account, how far you have got through each one, and the dated record of every section served. ComplianceSME also runs as a connector inside Claude: the Claude page has the three doors.

Anything to do with the app or your account goes to toolkit@compliancesme.com and is answered by a person within one working day.