Configure Markets and Currencies for International Commerce

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Topic summary

A store owner in Brazil wants to expand globally but faces configuration challenges with markets and currencies:

Core Issues:

  • Cannot change the primary market from Brazil to International
  • Unable to set region-specific currencies (BRL for Brazil, AUD for Oceania)
  • Wants to configure a .com.br domain for Portuguese content

Root Cause:
Shopify Payments is required for multi-currency functionality but is unavailable in Brazil. The default market was automatically assigned based on IP address and cannot be changed. The store currently uses Stripe as the payment processor.

Proposed Solution:
A third-party app called ‘Shopify Stripe Checkout’ was suggested as a workaround, which reportedly supports multi-currency and integrates with existing Stripe accounts.

Status: The discussion remains open with a potential workaround identified but not yet implemented or verified.

Summarized with AI on October 29. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Hello!

I created a store and want to sell all over the world.
The default market was selected as Brazil.
I also added Internacional and Oceania, totaling 3 markets.

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I would like to:

  1. change the primary market, from Brazil to International;
  2. change Brazil’s currency to BRL;
  3. set Oceania currency to AUD;
  4. configure a .com.br domain for .com/pt

I can’t change the default market at all.

And when trying to change the markets currency, it asks to enable Shopify Payments, but I believe it is not enabled for me (Brazil). I am currently using Stripe as my payment method.

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Can anyone help me?

Thank you very much!

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As Shopify support said, all my questions is related with Shopify Payments, that is not available in Brazil, where is my Default market, assigned by my IP address… :disappointed_face:

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Try the easy third-party solution ‘Shopify Stripe Checkout’ which supports multi-currency and most payment methods supported by your Stripe account

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