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At Purple Dot (waitlisting platform for e-commerce), we use Stripe.

Not sure which Stripe product you are using exactly, but with Stripe Connect it is possible to pay out people in quite a few countries now, not just the US. If you only have a UK registered business, you should be able to cover EU at least.

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Do these people need to have Stripe accounts? I guess that’s where I was blocked, we’d been hoping to make it easy for people to accept payments by not having them sign up for other services and transfer directly to their bank accounts but this does provide greater flexibility on our end. Paypal is something that individuals and companies are used to having accounts for, but Stripe feels like a 'company' type thing, but it's not a big ask to have users sign up to receive payments.

I'm the maintainer of dj-stripe, i think you might be misunderstanding something about the stripe connect set up. Did you look through the docs? https://stripe.com/docs/connect

I think no matter what it'll be the cheapest option for you since you're already using stripe. Feel free to email me if you need help.

This is my preferred option but it's only available for US accounts. See the banner under the documentation here: https://stripe.com/docs/connect/add-and-pay-out-guide?integr...

I reached out to Stripe support to confirm and this was their response:

Cross-border payouts are only available in the US for Platforms.

All connected accounts in every supported country can receive payouts, Connect is the only option there is with regards to transferring funds from one account to another.

So cross border is sending payouts to connected accounts in different countries. If you are in the UK and your connected accounts are UK based, then there would be no issue with payouts to the connected accounts

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