Understanding Dubai payment gateways for eCommerce: Stripe and Shopify fees?

[BigJusDXB]

Hi,

I haven't seen anything recent about this and going in circles with the support documents.

I am setting up an eCommerce business in Dubai. Wanting to use Shopify but there is no provider to use Shopify Payments, thus if I want to use Stripe, I would need to pay 2% to Shopify, plus % to Stripe as well??

Someone confirm or tell me I'm wrong please!

[Nick]

Hi @BigJusDXB,

Really good question!

As you mentioned, Shopify Payments (SP) isn't available in the UAE currently and Stripe is possible to use as seen in the UAE Payment Gateways help guide here. If you use a third party payment gateway such as Stripe outside of SP then you would pay the CC fees for the gateway you're using which in this case would be Stripe aswell as transaction fees (these change depending on which plan you are on). 

You can see these rates in the screenshot below from the Shopify Pricing page:

[BigJusDXB]

Thanks Nick, that’s really helpful. I’m not going mad!
Shame, as it makes Shopify double the cost of other combinations 

[Nick · Accepted solution]

I Completely understand you @BigJusDXB.

I'll make a feature request for Shopify Payments in UAE on your behalf with this in mind! 

[matheen21]

Yes please,

UAE is such happening destination, and still there is no Shopify payment available.

we need it asap

regards

Matheen

[Hehox]

With Easy Pie Checkout for Shopify, a 3rd party Stripe powered checkout solution, you only pay Stripe commissions, so you don’t incur any additional Shopify commissions.

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With this solution, you can accept payments and subscriptions with many payment methods supported by your Stripe account.

@BigJusDXB @matheen21 

[BigJusDXB]

Not sure that works, as if you don’t use Shopify own payment gateway, then you do have to pay them commissions as well as your chosen gateway. 
Also this is for the UAE where there is no Shopify gateway. 

[Fayir]

This is a checkout solution, not just a payment gateway integration, so there is no additional Shopify commission. 

If you have a Stripe account you can try it.