Merchants from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are requesting Shopify Payments availability in the Baltic region. Currently, they face significantly higher fees using third-party providers like Stripe, plus additional Shopify charges, while competing platforms offer free bank initiation services.
Key Pain Points:
Higher costs make Shopify less competitive in the Baltics compared to alternatives like WordPress
Currency conversion limitations prevent business expansion
Shopify restricts certain Stripe payment options that would otherwise be available
Baltic merchants pay the same Shopify Plus fees as global users but lack payment feature parity
Business Impact:
Multiple merchants (15+ stores mentioned collectively) are considering leaving the platform
The issue affects both online and physical stores using Shopify POS
Resolution:
The discussion appears to have reached a positive outcome, with the final post indicating Shopify Payments is now available in Latvia, linking to official Shopify documentation confirming support.
Summarized with AI on October 31.
AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
Hi, I am from Estonia and requesting Shopify payments, considering our neighboring country Finland has had it for over a year. Since we don’t have it, we pay significantly more fees with a third-party payment provider like stripe + the additional fee Shopify charges…
While in the Baltics the main payment processing method, bank initiation service, is free for all other platforms, like WordPress. Shopify does not allow it!
We are a physical store using Shopify pos also selling online. here is our webstore Hypebeastbaltics.com. We would like to continue using Shopify, but as we are growing it is getting very expensive, and being expensive is the main reason why a lot of people in Estonia-Baltics choose to not use Shopify!
Agree! Please bring Shopify payments To Latvia (Baltics). We have 15+ active merchants under our active control on Shopify in Baltics and we need this upgrade!
For this specific reason, we’re forced to leave Shopify. As a brand, we want to expand to other countries, but currency conversion limitations are preventing us from doing so. Shopify payments are run by Stripe, as are WooPayments, both of which are available in the Baltic States. However, there’s no explanation for why Shopify decided not to accept us.
We are from Latvia and we are paying for Shopify Plus the same fees as everyone else in the world. However years are passing and we are still waiting for Shopify payments..
Hello. Yes, we are also very interested in this, as we currently have three stores in the Baltics and are planning to launch a fourth. Naturally, the payment processing fees, especially those involving third-party applications, are quite high. We would really like to have access to Shopify Payments.
