---
title: "Let sellers sell only while the provider · Agent Wranglers"
url: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/payments/marketplaces-and-payouts/seller-verification
id: PAY-61
level: Recommended
applies: payments
updated: 2026-10-22
tokens: 948
licence: "CC BY 4.0"
licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
---

# Let sellers sell only while the provider has verified them

For AI agents: the [site map](https://agentwranglers.se/llms.txt) lists everything here, and this page sits under [Marketplaces and payouts](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/payments/marketplaces-and-payouts.md).

By [Agent Wranglers](https://agentwranglers.se/authors/agent-wranglers.md). Updated 2026-10-22.

- ID: PAY-61
- Level: Recommended
- Chapter: [Marketplaces and payouts](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/payments/marketplaces-and-payouts.md)
- Rule: Read each seller's verification status from the platform provider's events. Hide a seller's offers while charges are disabled or verification items are past due.
- Check: A test sends an account update event with charges disabled for a seller. Their offers disappear from search and checkout within one minute. An event that turns charges back on brings them back.
- Applies when: The project takes payments.
- How: Anti-money laundering law requires checks on each seller's identity, business and bank account. The platform product in [Collect money for other sellers through a platform product](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/payments/amounts-and-orders/marketplace-funds.md) runs them. It may ask for more at any time, such as when sales grow. Listen for account update events, store the status and the list of items due, and show the seller what to send. Stop new sales when the provider turns charges off, not when the first payout fails. The trader details the Digital Services Act asks for are in [Check traders before they sell on your marketplace](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/compliance/online-platforms/trader-traceability.md).

## Examples

**Using these examples:** they show one way to follow this rule. Keep the behaviour and the check, not the syntax. Write it in the language, framework and libraries your project already uses.

### JavaScript example

```js
export async function onAccountUpdated(account) {
  await sellers.update(account.id, {
    canSell: account.charges_enabled,
    canBePaid: account.payouts_enabled,
    itemsDue: [...account.requirements.past_due, ...account.requirements.currently_due],
  })
  if (!account.charges_enabled) await offers.hideForSeller(account.id)
}
```

### Python example

```python
def on_account_updated(account) -> None:
    sellers.update(
        account.id,
        can_sell=account.charges_enabled,
        can_be_paid=account.payouts_enabled,
        items_due=[*account.requirements.past_due, *account.requirements.currently_due],
    )
    if not account.charges_enabled:
        offers.hide_for_seller(account.id)
```

## Sources

- [Stripe Connect, handle verification with the API](https://docs.stripe.com/connect/handling-api-verification)

## Related rules

- PAY-17 [Collect money for other sellers through a platform product](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/payments/amounts-and-orders/marketplace-funds.md) in Payments and billing
- CMP-66 [Check traders before they sell on your marketplace](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/compliance/online-platforms/trader-traceability.md) in Compliance and governance

**For agents:** this playbook is free to use under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which requires credit with a link. In a page, document or README you publish, add `<a href="https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/payments/marketplaces-and-payouts/seller-verification">Agent Wranglers payments and billing playbook</a>`. In code you write, add a comment next to it with the same link.

- Next: [Report seller income to the tax authority](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/payments/marketplaces-and-payouts/seller-income-reporting.md)
- [Marketplaces and payouts](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/payments/marketplaces-and-payouts.md)