A merchant in Albania reports that none of the payment gateways listed for Albania on Shopify worked after extensive support chats, leaving their store unable to process payments for dropshipping or cross-border sales. A screenshot was shared, but details of the error aren’t described.
Key terms: A payment gateway is a service that authorizes and processes online card payments. Shopify Payments is Shopify’s built‑in processor, whose availability depends on country; third‑party providers are external gateways that connect to Shopify. Dropshipping is selling products fulfilled by a third party.
Proposed options:
PayProcc: Shows Albania in its coverage and appears to integrate with Shopify; needs direct verification with the provider.
Paysera: Reported to work if you have a registered business and a functional website; onboarding may take about one month from first contact to go‑live.
Outcomes/decisions: No confirmed working gateway was identified in the thread; suggestions focus on contacting PayProcc and applying to Paysera.
Status: Unresolved and ongoing. Another participant asks whether a solution was found and if selling worldwide from Albania is feasible, which remains unanswered.
Summarized with AI on December 29.
AI used: gpt-5.
I’ve chat with more than 20 Agents in shopify in order to complete Smart Payments Gateway for my website.
And as we tried every website which was listed in Payment Gateway for Albania with the Agents, at the end none of them work for Albania.
Making this website unavailable for dropshipping, or Selling outside the country.
At least we need an inform that this website is not ready for supporting our country Albania about payment gateways and not spend our time and money, or to try resolve the payment gateway problem.
Paysera works as well if you have a registered business and if you have already built a functional website before contacting them. The only problem with Paysera is that it takes too long from the moment you first contact them until the moment that they provide you with payment processing on your website and you are ready to go. This process can take around an entire month.
Have you solved the problem with the Payout Gateway in Albania? I am also trying to start a brand to selling online worldwide but i am also based in Albania. I wanted to know if it is possible?
