#uncultured-swine_docs
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gilded slate
Hi there!
So you're sort of asking if Stripe maintains a list of possible values for merchant_data.name on the authorization object, is that right?
knotty fable
Yep! I’m concerned about letting users set something like “Amazon” on a spend control but the actual merchant name is “Amazon.com” or “Amazon Co” etc
gilded slate
Gotcha - looking into where that value comes from
knotty fable
Thank you!
gilded slate
And to be clear, you're interested in allowing/disallowing by merchant name, separate from things like the merchant network id?
Which seems more reliable. It also seems like you're interested in something like this feature:
knotty fable
We considered merchant network id but it has the same problem: users on our site won't know that value to input it and we'd need to maintain a mapping of business name to network id (which would be doable if we had a way to get that besides making a purchase). Agreed that network id would be more reliable but we're managing all of this off stripee
gilded slate
Even with merchant network ids, it doesn't look like we provide an API for identifying merchants. There isn't a "Merchants" issuing API as far as I can tell
knotty fable
Yea I did a lot of digging before opening this thread haha. Even the spending-controls that you guys provide don't allow rules specific to a merchant, looks like the most granular would be category code
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fast plank
👋 Taking over this thread. We don't have a good way to have spending control on a specific merchant name. The closest will be the category code as you mentioned.
knotty fable
Gotcha. I'm guessing as far as you know no one else has tried to do this and shared their results?