---
title: Activation that already knows you, and tells you where you are
date: 2026-09-08
version: 2026.09.6
tags: [new]
action_required: false
areas: [payments, admin]
links: [https://katching.ai/legal/katching-payments]
language: en
canonical: https://katching.ai/changelog/activation-that-already-knows-you
---

# Activation that already knows you, and tells you where you are

Activation moved into your admin last week. This week it stops asking you for
things we already have, it works for founders who do not live in the United
States, and it shows you the road instead of a percentage.

**It arrives filled in**

Your email, your store address, your website and, when your Katching billing
record carries one, your phone are already in the fields when you get there. If
your store has a vertical, the business category and the description of what you
sell arrive written, and you correct them rather than compose them. Nothing is
guessed: a field we cannot fill honestly is left empty for you.

**If you do not live in the United States**

The address of the person signing now asks for a country, and it takes the one
you live in. The state, the region and the postal code take the shape of that
country instead of an American one.

**If you do not have a Social Security number**

There is a box that says so. It opens a field for your ITIN, or for the tax
number of the country where you live, and it tells you plainly that an identity
document will be asked for afterward, on the same page, in our words.

**Your category, out of the whole list**

The category of your business is searched among the 288 we support, not picked
from a drawer of ten. The codes our processor will not accept are not offered at
all, so a category cannot be chosen and then refused later. If none of them is
yours, a link says so and tells you what happens next.

**A road, not a percentage**

Beside the form, six named milestones show where you are and what is left:
Business, You, Owners, Bank, Terms, Review. A small scene next to them follows
the same story, and one sentence says what this screen is for. On a phone, the
road moves above the form, and it never sits below it.

**About your payouts**

Before your account exists we do not quote a rate we cannot yet read, so the
review screen says what is true: payouts start once your first sale clears, a
reserve is held on each payment for 90 days from that payment, and you will see
the exact rate the
moment your account opens. Once it is open, that same sentence carries your real
reserve rate and the date it is released, read from the same records the payout
job uses.