Has anyone heard of ticklelife/ticklecharge? I've been contacting dozens of payment processors trying to find one that will enable me to accept credit card payments on my search engine, https://sexworkersear.ch/.

So far I have contacted epoch, emerchantpay, verotel, paymentcloudinc, ccbill, paydek, segpay, pinwheelpay, emerchantbroker, durango, cardinity and many more. Most of them didn't reply but those who did reply said no, they don't work with sex workers.

A few said they can't work with us because of Visa and Mastercard's rules but VISA and MC do not explicitly ban escort websites from using their products as far as I can tell.

Within VISA's Merchant Data Standards Manual, Escort services are given the Merchant Category Code 7273. Merchants classified with this MCC provide dating and escort services, including online services.

Escort Services under Merchant Category Code 7273 are not prohibited from accepting VISA card payments however they are categorised as high risk.

As far as I know tryst uses cardinity, eros used to use verotel. Not sure what they use now. Massagerepublic uses emerchantpay.

If those directories can accept credit card payments, it must be possible. Just very difficult to find a payment processor that will work with sex workers.

So far ticklecharge is the only one that has said yes but they don't have much of a web presence. I asked if they can put me in contact with a site that uses their services so I can ask for a reference. I don't want to give them all my business and financial details unless I'm sure they're genuine.

They've had a few mentions on twitter and I don't see anything negative = https://x.com/search?q=ticklecharge&src=typed_query&f=live

They gave me a CBD retail website but there were no contact details on the site or whois. I sent them a message on their instagram so I'll wait and see if they reply.