2Checkout came back to us with a generic response asking us to please submit X months worth of sales history.
We were very taken aback because, um, this is a brand new store, we have no sales history.
We need the payment gateway, to get the sales history, to give to 2Checkout.
So… we decided to just launch with PayPal (which links to FNB account) and accepts USD.
The primary currency on the website is USD,
and we use an app to facilitate currency conversion,
but when the user checks out it is in USD, and we get paid in USD.
Indeed, it would be so much easier if we could just use Shopify Pay.
During my research, I encountered the Stripe Atlas program:
..where for USD 500, they will register a US company for you, and open a bank account for you, in the USA,
thus you can set up a Shopify US store.
If you can think of any other way to set up offshore, please share.
It all comes down to creating a foreign bank account. What’s the easiest way to do that, without leaving South Africa?