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For those using Stripe to ship physical goods, can you please comment on how you're handling the fact that Stripe does not validate the billing address prior to the charge going through?

I'd love to implement Stripe on my website but very worried that this could lead to fraudulent charges.

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Stripe returns address verification (AVS) results when you add a card, so you can reject mismatched addresses if you so choose.

Is there any documentation for this process? Our non-profit had to shut down our Stripe-based donation page because it was being used by credit card thieves to validate stolen credit cards. Stripe told us addresses are only validated when a charge is executed, meaning we would then have to issue a refund if address validation failed (and eat the transaction cost).

We'll return the validation data when you attach a card to a customer as well.

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