---
title: Activate Katching Payments without leaving Katching
date: 2026-09-07
version: 2026.09.4
tags: [new, improved]
action_required: false
areas: [payments, admin]
links: [https://katching.ai/legal/katching-payments]
language: en
canonical: https://katching.ai/changelog/native-onboarding
---

# Activate Katching Payments without leaving Katching

Activating Katching Payments used to hand you over to a form that was not ours.
It looked like a different product, it asked in a different voice, and it was
the one place in your admin where Katching stopped being Katching.

That form is gone. Activation is now eleven short screens of our own: our
fields, our questions, our words, and a summary at the end that shows you
everything before anything is sent.

**What it asks**

Only what your business actually needs. A sole proprietor answers nine screens.
A partnership answers eleven. Nobody is asked for an owner list who does not
have owners, and nobody is asked twice for something we already know.

**Where your sensitive answers go**

Your Social Security number, your date of birth, your bank account number and
any photo of your ID leave your browser for our payment processor directly.
They never touch a Katching server, not even in passing, and nothing about them
is written to a Katching database or a log. What we receive back is a token,
which is a receipt, not a copy.

**When you can start selling**

As soon as the checks clear, usually in under a minute. Your bank account can
wait: you can start selling first and add it later, and only your payouts wait
for it.

**If something is still missing**

It appears on the same Payments page, as a Katching screen with a Katching
sentence saying what is needed and by when. No error codes, no jargon from
somewhere else.