You have incorporated your company in Estonia, and now you want to accept payments. If you’re looking to accept Stripe in Estonia, in this article we’re going to tell you a little bit on how to do it. This is especially important if you are an Estonian company owner, or opened an Estonian company using its e-residency program.
Updated September 2019: Stripe is no longer in beta for companies incorporated in Estonia. For this reason, if you want to open an account for Stripe in Estonia you can do so without needing to apply for a beta invitation. If you don’t know how to integrate Stripe, use PayForm to integrate it easily in your website without coding. Start your free trial using this link.
The history of Stripe in Estonia
Estonia is one of the best places in Europe to build your company. Freelancers and entrepreneurs all over the world are using its e-residency program to create companies, bank and start making money. And one of the favorite methods of payments that entrepreneurs love is Stripe. But sadly, if you wanted to accept this payment method in countries like Estonia was impossible. Even though it was available in several EEA countries, Estonia was not on the list
The good news came in February, when Stripe announced that Estonia was finally available to open accounts in an open beta. These are great news for entrepreneurs all around the world that have, or are evaluating Estonia.
Updated September 2019: Stripe is no longer in beta for companies incorporated in Estonia and it’s open for all Estonian companies.
Accept Stripe in Estonia with PayForm
If you want to start using Stripe in Estonia the first step is to request access to the private beta. Just visit the Stripe Global website, and enter your email in the field that says “Stripe in my country”. After acceptance, you will be ready to start integrating Stripe. open an account directly as Stripe is now fully available in Estonia without invitation. It’s easy and it will be integrated faster than saying valmis. If you don’t have an account and want to use PayForm, create your account within PayForm before starting your free trial using this link.
The best thing is that you won’t have to struggle with the Stripe API. This is great for non-developers as you can do all the integration yourself, even with basic knowledge of HTML. Companies in several Private Beta countries, like India, Mexico and Brazil currently use PayForm to help their integration.
What if I’m not accepted in Stripe in Estonia?
While not all companies are accepted for the Stripe beta in Estonia, don’t worry. One of the main features of Stripe, subscriptions, works out of the box with PayForm. We have created a subscription feature inside PayForm that works over PayPal.
You now can create your account directly. You can also register through PayForm to make your integration easier and accept one time and recurring easily without integrations.
You can try PayForm free for 7 days using this link.
