Hello, I am just starting my business and my website. I’m based in South Africa, but much of my client base is located in the US and Europe. I’ve almost finish building my website on Shopify only to discover how limited my payment gateway options are. Payfast and Paypal are available to me but Payp…

Hi @AM13 , Nick here from Shopify. Really good questions! I completely see where you are coming from if your client base is mainly in the US and Europe. If it was me I would stick to keeping things with your native currency as that is where your business is set up and registered. I would recommend…

Great news that you have something up and running. I have also settled on Paypal and attempted to link my FNB account today. Do you need the app to facilitate the currency conversation if the primary currency is USD and the checkout is in USD? I assume it will be for purchases outside of the US? …

Hi, I finally heard back from 2Checkout. Here are the questions I asked: Will your service allow my store currency to be in USD and pay ZAR into my South African bank? Does your 2monitize plan include Paypal’s percentage? Or would I also be paying a percentage to them on top of this? And this is…

Hi Many thanks for sharing that. A point of confusion with your situation: As I understood it, you want to primarily sell to South Africans, in ZAR; South African Shopify stores can only have 1 currency, which is what the customer sees during checkout (You can use an app to show multiple curren…

Hi, No, sorry for the confusion… I am based in SA but most of my customers are in the US and Europe. I want to be able to accept payments easily from these places, but also want South Africans to not be excluded as customers. I think I’ll stick to PayPal for now with my store currency set to USD. …

Oh! just saw that last part… It doesn’t look like they support ZAR as the stores main currency…

I recieve payments in this manner for my holiday rentals from Airbnb. Its works fine, I’m going to use this option then because I was going to add PayFast now I will stick to paypal and just show conversion for SA customers.

Hi Nick I also have same problem I am in South Africa most of my customers are in the United state and my store is in South Africa . My question is how United States customers are going to checkout if my store currency is in rand do they need to open South African bank?

Hi @Eucliff , Good question! People from any country should be able to check out from your store if you have your currency set to South African Rand. While it will show that as the checkout currency to the customer, their bank will show what the exchange rate is the country/currency they are based…

I now wish I opened my Shopify store while I had my two month vacation in the USA January last year before I got stuck here in SA. LOL. If only we knew…

What are the best payment gateway options for a South African business?

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ChantelP September 7, 2020, 5:59pm 18

If you have a bank account with FNB you can link your account to PayPal to recieve your payments into an SA account.

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What are the best payment gateway options for a South African business?

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