Support more countries for payments

[birkjernstrom]

Polar is built using Stripe Connect and has enabled all of their supported countries for payments. Separately, not all of them are supported for payouts even though a lot are.

In the future, we want to expand support for more payment- and payout providers, e.g PayPal, Wise, to support developers in more countries.

This thread is a great place for developers to request their specific countries & to subscribe and engage to get updates in the future.

[ceolinwill]

Thanks for creating this, @birkjernstrom. I'd love to see Brazil in the list.

Actually, I thought Stripe Connect supported it. It does show up on their availability list and I know GitHub Sponsors supports it (which also uses Connect). But it says it depends on "your platform's country". Just curious: Is Polar registered in the US or Sweden?

[birkjernstrom]

I think you're right and it does make sense. From the last Stripe Session there is a lot happening with these forms of Connect being standardized into one and that customization is more granular with embeddable components vs. redirecting to Stripe (Express UI). Going to be interesting to see how that impacts these differentiations in terms of market availability.

I'll chat with Stripe soon and will be sure to dig into this a bit to get more context.

[thlmenezes]

Any updates on Brazil support in 2025?

I believe the support is still missing by the docs available here https://docs.polar.sh/merchant-of-record/supported-countries#payouts

[rishi-raj-jain]

Hi @thlmenezes,

Brazil support is not released with Polar yet since it's Polar is a US platform on Stripe. It would require Polar as a platform to be registered in the EU for instance, but we'll do that within the next 4-6 months and operate multiple platform accounts under the hood and integrate other PSPs and Payout options as well next year. So definitely something we hope to support and sorry we can't in the short-term 😔

[gfffrtt]

Any news on this, Brazil support would be much appreaciated as all solutions that work in Brazil suck

[LeonardoRick]

I'm also waiting for Brazilian support 🫰

[m4rrc0]

-> EUR (Belgium)

Hey. I wanted to use Polar in Belgium.

Not being able to change the currency to euro is a deal breaker. I am so sad! I was really pumped up at the idea of finally setting up some payment automation with Polar and was really disappointed to discover this. 😢

Also no way to specify if VAT has to be charged or not... I thought this would be configurable on Stripe's side but there is actually nothing we can configure on Stripe's side apparently?

[pseuss]

+1 for Euro (Germany)

It would be nice to be able to use polar.sh in Germany as well.

[philippdormann]

+1 for EUR support (really want to use polar.sh in Germany)

[matmkian]

+1 so hyped about Polar, can't use it in France :-(

[JClackett]

give us euros!

[rishi-raj-jain]

From the ticket

Someone wants to use AUD for their business.

[BaileySimrell]

Would love to see a version of Polar without Stripe dependency that works on another platform e.g. PayPal

[theoheneba]

Ghana doesnt support stripe. Please check and see so you add alternative for African countries.

[rishi-raj-jain]

We do support Ghana though, read more on how at https://polar.sh/docs/merchant-of-record/supported-countries#can-i-use-polar-in-countries-e-g-india-where-stripe-is-invite-only.

[jameszokah]

We do support Ghana though, read more on how at https://polar.sh/docs/merchant-of-record/supported-countries#can-i-use-polar-in-countries-e-g-india-where-stripe-is-invite-only.

Ghana is only supported via Paystack (owned by Stripe), but not for direct Stripe accounts or payouts so how does Polar handle payouts for Ghana based users, also I checked the list of supported countries and Ghana is not included

[naelodev]

Revolut pay would be cool too!

[dentroai]

would be great if there some architectural decision where all client data can stay in the EU. This would involve not using Stripe for anything anymore.