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Hi,
we are now having an online store on Shopify for 2 years. Our business is registered and based in Poland. We are still waiting for the integration of Shopify Payments for Poland. We have registered many requests for implementation of Shopify Payments in this community forum by Polish business owners. Until now nothing happened. In order to sell globally and be in fair competition to other businesses internationally, it is necessary to be able to offer products in local currencies. International customers seeing foreign currencies immediately effects the sales as it is statistically proven that it creates a distrust in the customers shopping behaviour to see foreign currencies in an online shop.
We think in order to treat all customers fairly on an international market, Shopify is obliged to offer the same conditions in all countries it is offering its services to. Currently all countries that Shopify offers services in but does not offer Shopify Payments, are being exposed to a massive disadvantage to businesses in countries that Shopify payments works in. Now 2 Eastern European countries (Czech Republic, Romania) have been added, all other Eastern European countries are not able to use Shopify Payments and are clearly in disadvantage of doing international business. This is unfair competition.
We are very frustrated about this issue and will change the shop system to Wordpress if this does not change until our billing plan ends in March 2024.
Best regards
Poland is a very complicated market, I can surely say that after selling couple of years online. Polish consumers research where they can get the cheapest option, where western consumers don’t. They just see and buy.
For exchangeable products that might be. For unique products this doesn’t matter. I can say that Polish people def have a sweet spot for beautiful unique clothing and it’s the opposite of a miserable market. For us it’s a booming market. But I guess that depends on the products you sell
To all the potential Polish shop owners that are looking for a host:
-DO NOT CHOOSE THIS, READ THIS THREAD CAREFULLY-
You will be in disadvantage because of your location.
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