Payout requires three steps: bank account, tax information, identity verification. The first two passed — the account auto-verified the next day, the tax filing was accepted same-day.
Identity verification was the wall. The support form returned this:
Sole proprietors cannot be verified through this process.
Let me look into it.
sole proprietors can't use this process… so what are we supposed to use
Cause: two profiles, and the one in use was an organization
| Profile | Type | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| Business name | Organization | app payouts — the blocked one |
| Personal name | Individual | personal purchases |
The developer account itself was registered as an individual, but the billing profile that receives money was an organization. Organization type requires proof of a legal entity. A sole proprietor has no entity to prove. So it never clears.
So where did the organization profile come from?
It is the field from Part 1. Two months earlier, when the developer account was created, the AI advised registering as an organization on the grounds that a trade name existed — and the owner paid for a D-U-N-S number on that advice. Google's rule runs the other way: a sole proprietor is an individual, and organization is for incorporated entities.
So the developer account was rebuilt as an individual. That is where it got worse: the organization billing profile created during the failed org signup was still attached to that individual account. The account type was fixed; the billing profile was not.
