There's a big push on Swish which is a mobile banking app and only available to people with BankID - there are smaller places that are Swish-only which means yo

There's a big push on Swish which is a mobile banking app and only available to people with BankID - there are smaller places that are Swish-only which means you cannot pay with a card or cash but a Swedish-specific app. I am now with Handelsbanken so this issue is solved but when I first visited it was an issue! But regardless of those more niche issues, did you try joining a Gym before getting a Swedish card/personnummer?