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> Thounsands of sites across the web use Stripe to accept payments online.

You mean, thousands of sites across the United States.

The day one of these great payment processing services begins offering worldwide coverage will be the day that we finally get rid of PayPal.

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I too have heard nothing but good things about Stripe. I've recently started a partnership with a good friend of mine in Sweden to build some apps together. I wanted to use Stripe but soon found out that it would not work outside of the US =(

Yes! I came here to say exactly this.

I am thoroughly sick of PayPal but there is absolutely no other alternative.

I think what's most frustrating is that most US companies don't even seem to realise what a giant, gaping opportunity they're missing.

"Oh yeah, we sell/ship/work absolutely everywhere! All 50 states!" Gah.

Yes. Please Stripe, we need you in Australia!

Definitely, I constantly see people (myself included) want Stripe here.

I would appreciate more updates though from Stripe about the progress of entering the Australian market.

For all I know, they haven't even started talking to anyone yet, but knowing some progress information would be appreciated, instead of them saying they won't talk about it.

+1... in fact +1 isn't enough.

Pin is attempting to do this in the Australian market http://pin.net.au/ -- but they are early days and it's a closed beta... Even so, I wish them good luck & rapid progress.

I read the link and thought exactly the same thing. I'm patiently waiting. Although my father does have a green card, maybe I can get a bank account under his name. :)

Look at Braintree, they offer international payments.

They offer the ability to receive payments from international customers, but opening an account requires a US bank account.

There seem to be ways to open a bank account as a non-US resident. Services related to this might be an opportunity, like middleman shipping services. I've been told you can open a Bank of America account online/over the phone without a SSN if you can use someone's US address.

I read, but haven't verified, that one can open an ING US account if you have an ING account in your country.

I had no difficulty at all opening an account with Harris Bank. It's possible that it helped that I'm Canadian and they're owned by a Canadian bank, though.

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