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Is this available to canadian stripe accounts too or just US?
by veesahni 12y ago
Is this available to canadian stripe accounts too or just US?
- jxm262 12y agoAlthough I can't find it stated explicitly, if you look at "Guide Part 2: Creating a charge" :currency => "usd", # presently can only make bitcoin charges in USD So, looks like USD for now. Although I think you could probabaly just implement the conversion yourself on your own wrapper code. <<Edit>> my apologies. I misread your question, thinking you were referring to currencies. But assuming they only accept USD, i'd have to assume its only for US accounts too? Perhaps someone can chime in and let us know though. Or try it with a canadian account and see what happens.
- krithix 12y agoI work for Stripe. While people anywhere around the world can pay with Bitcoin (and we've seen payments from over 60 countries during our beta), we currently only support merchants who have U.S. bank accounts. (Fun fact: Our first Bitcoin user had a Canadian Stripe account, but also a U.S. bank account.)
- isthisforme 12y agoThanks for the clarification. Could a Canadian Stripe user just start using the API and then go open a us bank account after launch, or would the us bank account be needed prior to going live?
- krithix 12y agoYou can get everything set up in test mode, but you will need to activate the bank account before going live. If helpful, there's more info on testing here: https://stripe.com/docs/testing#how-do-i-test-bitcoin https://stripe.com/docs/testing#how-do-i-test-bitcoin
- isthisforme 12y agoAnd can you clarify if by us bank account you mean 'us dollar denominated', or 'us dollar denominated and a us bank'. USD bank accounts are very common in Canada. Not that needing a US bank account is necessarily a show-stopper, but it's more work.
- krithix 12y agoUSD-denominated and a U.S. bank for now.