Subscription solution for customer from France

Shopify Apps

Topic summary

A Shopify store owner in France is seeking subscription app options but faces limitations because Shopify Payments is unavailable in their region.

Core Issue:

  • Popular subscription apps like Bold and Recharge typically require Shopify Payments, PayPal Express, or Authorize.net as payment gateways
  • The merchant needs alternatives that work without Shopify Payments

Proposed Solutions:

  • Loop Subscriptions app supports Stripe as a payment method, offering a workaround for French merchants
  • A third-party checkout and subscription solution via Stripe was also suggested as an alternative

Status: The discussion remains open with potential solutions identified but not yet implemented or confirmed by the original poster.

Summarized with AI on November 3. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Hi,

A client of mine is trying to add a Subscription app to its Shopify site.

He tells me that he “can’t use existing subscription apps such as BOLD or RECHARGE because Shopify Payments isn’t available in France”

Is this true or does he have possibilities to pay for one of these apps https://apps.shopify.com/collections/checkout-subscription ?

If he is not able to connect an app, can you advise me how to make a custom solution? probably with Stripe?

I found this on the documentation of Shopify:
"
To use subscriptions, you must be using one of the following gateways as your payment gateway:

Shopify Payments
PayPal Express
Authorize.net
"

Thank you

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@Solutio

You can try Loop Subscriptions which support stripe as a payment method for subscriptions.

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To offer your customers a wide range of payment methods via Stripe, regardless of the location of your Shopify store, look at this solution for checkout and subscriptions >> https://lnkd.in/dtia-EBS

@Solutio @vivekloopwork

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