Vipps not available as local payment method in Norway — any workaround?

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Hi everyone,

I’m running a Shopify store registered in Denmark using Shopify Payments, and I sell to customers across the Nordics — including Norway.

I’ve noticed that MobilePay is available as a local payment method for DK and FI-registered stores via Shopify Payments, but Vipps is not available for NO-registered stores — even though Vipps and MobilePay merged into the same company (Vipps MobilePay).

This means I currently have no native way to offer Vipps at checkout for my Norwegian customers.

Has anyone found a good solution for this? Specifically:

  • Is there a way to offer Vipps?
  • Has anyone successfully used a third-party Vipps integration and can recommend one?
  • Is this something Shopify is working on adding?

As MobilePay and Vipps is the same company (MP in Denmark and Finland, Vipps in Norway - but same company) it’s strange Vipps is not an option as a Shopify Payment.

Would love to hear from other Nordic merchants who’ve dealt with this.

Thanks!

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Worth checking the premise before you spend any energy on the Norwegian-entity route, because I think the split is not where it looks.

Shopify’s local payment methods page keys eligibility to where the customer is, not where the store is registered. MobilePay is described as available to customers in Denmark or Finland. So your DK store shows it because your buyers sit in DK and FI, not because the store itself is Danish. Registering an entity in Norway would not change that axis.

The real reason you cannot find Vipps is that it is not on that list at all. The methods there are Klarna, MobilePay, Swish, TWINT, BLIK, MB WAY, Bancontact, iDEAL/Wero, EPS, Przelewy24, ACH Direct Debit, Multibanco and Sofort. Vipps is absent for every store country, not just yours. Same parent company, still a separate rail, and Shopify Payments has only picked up one of the two brands so far. Good thing to know before anyone opens a NO company on the assumption it unlocks the checkout.

There is an official route though. Vipps MobilePay’s own developer docs point at a Shopify app, built and maintained by Crude, and it runs as its own payment method next to Shopify Payments rather than replacing it. Capture and refund stay in the Shopify admin. Two limitations they state themselves, worth knowing up front. Express checkout is not supported on Shopify, which they attribute to a limitation on Shopify’s side, so you get Vipps in the regular checkout but not as a one-tap button on the product page. And after you sign up you wait one to two days for the business portal login before you can pull API credentials, so it is not a same-afternoon job.

One thing I could not verify and would ask them directly before installing anything. Whether the Vipps agreement accepts a merchant registered in Denmark, or whether onboarding wants a Norwegian organisation number. The brand is shared but the contracting side may not be, and that question decides whether this path exists for you at all. Cheaper to ask Vipps sales than to find out three steps in.

How much of your volume is actually Norwegian right now? If it is a thin slice, the third-party fee and the extra reconciliation may eat the conversion lift, and that changes the answer.

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@Hygge Vipps not showing up in Shopify Payments for NO-registered stores is a known gap - Shopify still treats Vipps and MobilePay as separate regional methods tied to your store’s registration country, even though they’re the same company now, and there’s no indication Shopify is merging them into Shopify Payments’ regional list any time soon.

The workaround most Nordic merchants use is the official Vipps MobilePay app in the Shopify App Store. It adds Vipps as a payment option at checkout independently of your Shopify Payments country, running alongside Shopify Payments as an extra method rather than replacing it - search “Vipps” from Settings > Payments > Add payment method, or find it directly in the App Store. It’s built by Vipps MobilePay themselves, not a random third party.

One thing worth checking before installing: this only works if your checkout is on Shopify’s checkout extensibility (should be the default by now), since older custom checkout.liquid setups can’t add new payment apps.

If this answer helped, mark it as a solution.

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@Hygge The good news: you may not need a Norwegian company at all.

I checked the current Vipps MobilePay documentation, and there is an important detail here that changes the approach.

Vipps MobilePay currently accepts merchants registered in Denmark, Finland, and Norway, provided they have a valid organisation number and a business bank account in the same country.

More importantly, Vipps MobilePay explicitly supports cross-border Nordic payments. A Norwegian customer using Vipps can pay a Danish merchant, so a Danish-registered business can potentially serve Norwegian Vipps customers without creating a separate Norwegian entity.

For Shopify, there is also an official Vipps/MobilePay Payments plugin. It is built and maintained by Crude and documented by Vipps MobilePay. It adds Vipps/MobilePay directly to the Shopify checkout, while captures and refunds can still be handled from Shopify admin.

So I would approach it like this:

  1. Don’t create a Norwegian company just to unlock Vipps yet.

  2. Apply for the appropriate Vipps MobilePay merchant service using the existing Danish business.

  3. Make sure the sales unit/currency setup is correct — Danish sales units use DKK.

  4. Install and configure the official Vipps/MobilePay Shopify payment plugin.

  5. Test a Norwegian customer journey before making it live.

There is one important catch: this isn’t necessarily a same-day setup. Vipps says new merchants need to apply for the service, and its current documentation says product orders can require manual setup and may take up to 10 working days. The Shopify plugin documentation separately mentions 1–2 days to receive business-portal login details after signing up.

Also, Shopify Express checkout isn’t currently supported by the Vipps/MobilePay plugin, so Vipps will work through the normal checkout rather than as an Express option.

So before changing the company’s registration country, I’d contact Vipps MobilePay and confirm the Danish merchant can activate the relevant payment service for Norwegian customers. Based on their current documentation, there is a legitimate path for that.

That would be much cheaper and safer than forming a Norwegian entity first and discovering afterward that it wasn’t necessary.

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Mobilepay is available with Stripe and Vipps coming soon. So check solutions that integrate Stripe Checkout to Shopify.

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Hello there @Hygge
If your business is located in Denmark, you can only find in Shopify Payments the payment methods available for that market regardless of your customers’ location. The MobilePay and Vipps brands being owned by the same company does not necessarily mean they share the same Shopify Payments availability.

Norwegian buyers For Norwegian buyers, you can check Shopify’s payment provider settings to see if Vipps is offered by a supported third party provider for your store. You can also activate alternative payment methods at Settings > Payments and you can perform a test checkout from Norway.