TikTok Shop Strengthens U.S. Business Seller Registration Document Requirements
TikTok Shop clarifies the documents required for U.S. business and partnership sellers to register, including identity, tax, business registration, and address documents, as well as review risks.
What are the key facts?
- 1TikTok Shop published guidance on U.S. business seller registration documents
- 2Business and partnership sellers may need to submit multiple types of documents
- 3Acceptable identity documents include a U.S. passport and other IDs
- 4File sizes generally must not exceed 10 MB
- 5Document issues may result in review failure
What happened?
TikTok Shop published guidance on October 9, 2026, detailing the registration documents that U.S. business and partnership sellers may need to submit. The platform requires the documents to be valid, complete, clear, and consistent with the registration information, and file sizes generally must not exceed 10 MB.
Acceptable identity documents include a U.S. passport, U.S. passport card, U.S. driver’s license, state ID, and permanent resident card. Depending on the business type, the platform may also require IRS-issued business tax documents, business registration documents, proof of address, or a letter of authorization.
Screenshots, excessive cropping, expired identification, paper temporary documents, and unacceptable IRS documents may result in review failure. The requirements affect sellers from China and other regions planning to register U.S. TikTok Shop business accounts, particularly teams registering with a U.S. company, U.S. legal representative, overseas warehouse, or agent. Sellers must ensure that the company name, registered address, tax ID, legal representative information, and bank account information are consistent; otherwise, onboarding review may take longer or selling privileges may be restricted.
What does this mean for cross-border sellers?
Sellers planning to register a U.S. TikTok Shop business account need to prepare complete identity, tax, business registration, address, and letter-of-authorization documents. Unclear or expired materials, or information that does not match the account, may cause review failure, extend onboarding review, or restrict selling privileges.
What should sellers do now?
- 1Create a document checklist for TikTok Shop accounts registered using a U.S. company or legal representative, collect identity documents, IRS tax documents, business registration documents, proof of address, and the LOA, and produce a record showing completion of each item.Listing character checker
- 2For the U.S. TikTok Shop registration account, compare the company name, registered address, tax ID, legal representative information, and bank account information item by item, complete a consistency checklist, and mark abnormal fields for correction.
- 3Check the validity period, clarity, and completeness of all documents before submission; exclude screenshots, excessively cropped images, expired identification, and paper temporary documents, and confirm that each file generally does not exceed 10 MB.