# Local businesses taking Monzo.me payments?

**URL:** <https://community.monzo.com/t/local-businesses-taking-monzo-me-payments/14358>\
**Category:** Monzo Chat\
**Created:** [28 July 2017 22:00 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/local-businesses-taking-monzo-me-payments/14358 "2017-07-28T22:00:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![alexs](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/monzo/user_avatar/community.monzo.com/alexs/32/2443_2.png) [@alexs](https://community.monzo.com/u/alexs)\
**Post date:** [28 July 2017 22:13 UTC](https://community.monzo.com/t/local-businesses-taking-monzo-me-payments/14358/5 "2017-07-28T22:13:53Z")

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Just to confirm, this isn’t allowed -

> [@Monzo.me Limits](https://community.monzo.com/t/monzo-me-limits/6810/1):
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> couple of people also wondered if they could use this to collect payments for their business — unfortunately, we’re focusing on providing personal accounts and so using this to collect payments for your business doesn’t align with our aims and terms.

I can’t see that changing in the future as that would mean Monzo absorbing the acceptance fees that merchants currently pay when you make a payment to them & I don’t think that the benefit, in terms of user experience, outweighs that cost.

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