How to activate iDEAL or Bancontact through Stripe?

secantscope
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As a Belgian company, we have many customers from Belgium and Netherlands. This means we definitely need to offer iDEAL and Bancontact as payment methods.

 

So far I created a Stripe account because I believe Stripe is a direct payment provider, which means my customers wouldn't need to leave the shop during the payment process. See diff here:

https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/payments/third-party-providers/direct-and-external-providers

 

Shopify Payments is not yet available for Belgian companies. Therefore, using Stripe seems like a no-brainer because Stripe is also what Shopify Payments is built on. I love working with the most used options.

 

However, after activating Stripe and connecting it to my Shopify account, in the Shopify settings panel I only see VISA, MasterCard, Amex and Apply Pay. Even after activating Bancontact and iDEAL in the Stripe settings panel, I'm not able to add them in the Shopify settings panel. 

 

I found some Stripe tutorials about how to add these options using "sources", but I can't believe this would require actual coding to activate.

https://stripe.com/docs/sources/ideal

https://stripe.com/docs/sources/bancontact

 

My only remaining solution would be to activate Mollie as well, but that would leave me with two different payment providers, which I'd rather avoid... Any help?

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