1. OK, that makes sense, but it's not just the transaction data that wasn't imported, it's charges, invoices, plans, subscriptions, coupons, events, logs, and of course API keys.
2. There are other business banks that don't need in-person visits, eg. Azlo and Capital One Spark business.
3. You should be more careful about victim blaming. Azlo is willing to accept me as a customer, they just asked me to go through Stripe since I am a US Citizen that lives abroad and since I have Stripe Atlas.
Technically, your customers have never agreed to be charged by this new company you’re setting up - it’s an entirely separate legal entity from yourself. There’s no way to start charging them from a separate legal entity without their consent, so a bulk import is probably not what you are permitted to do.
Businesses get acquired all the time- in this case, the new entity has acquired the assets and customers of the old entity. Thus the contract you have with the customer has been transferred to the new entity.
In this case, the new entity is a limited liability company and the old entity is a sole proprietorshio with no liability protection. Part of the protection comes from acting as if the limited liability entity is a legal “person”. Failure to do so can be used by creditors to “pierce the veil”.
There is usually some sort of document transferring the assets of the sole proprietorship into the C-corp or LLC in return for shares for membership interest, as part of the capitalization.
Perhaps talk to a CPA or a lawyer about all of this ...
> You should be more careful about victim blaming.
I think you should be more careful with how you use the phrase "victim blaming", which is commonly used in cases of injustice towards victims of sexual assault in particular. You haven't been victimized, you've been inconvenienced and/or had a poor customer experience.
Businesses generally make decisions on economic interest aligning with incentive structure. It is not personal.
Victims are specifically targetted, or some sort of personal boundary is violated. It can get very personal.
We might sometimes talk about someone being a victim of an impersonal force. For example, someome being injured as a result of a tsunami. However, excessively attaching to the narrative of being a victim can prevent someone from continuing their grieving process and moving on with their life.
That is not to say it cannot happen in the business world ... but I doubt that is the case here.
>However, excessively attaching to the narrative of being a victim [...]
There is no particular indication that the OP was calling forth the grand "victim narrative," or comparing themselves to sexual assault survivors in any way.
>Victims are specifically targetted, or some sort of personal boundary is violated. It can get very personal.
That's a mischaracterization of the word, focusing on a subset of the cases where it applies. I think a good argument against that mischaracterization might be:
>We might sometimes talk about someone being a victim of an impersonal force. For example, someome being injured as a result of a tsunami.
You don’t have to compare oneself to sexual assault victim narrative to attach to some sort of a narrative. People can be attached to all kinds ot ideas and narratives. I have learned from my own life journey that suffering can’t really by quantified, and one person’s experience of suffering can be as intense to them as someone else’s.
As I said, being a victim of an impersonal force can happen in the business world too.
Whether the acting force is personal or impersonal, the victim usually experiences (1) the force personally and (2) feels helplessness at the situation. The latter is kinda strange to me in the context of a business setting given the common narratives around self-reliance and exploiting opportunities in the business and startup subculture.
Thing is, I don’t see much at stake besides time, stress, and inconvenience. Maybe this is an appeal to public opinion get some leverage over Stripe? If not, and they really want to be in the victimhood narrative as an entrepreneur, sure, go ahead. I don’t see how such an orientation will help someone succeed as an entrepreneur.
2. There are other business banks that don't need in-person visits, eg. Azlo and Capital One Spark business.
3. You should be more careful about victim blaming. Azlo is willing to accept me as a customer, they just asked me to go through Stripe since I am a US Citizen that lives abroad and since I have Stripe Atlas.