How to add Klarna to a US Shopify store
US Shopify Payments does not natively offer Klarna, preventing US stores from directly serving German and Austrian shoppers who rely on it. Merchants have to bypass Shopify Payments and add Klarna through third-party payment integrations instead. Even then, some store owners warn that Klarna's high processing fees might make the workaround not worth the trouble.
What people tried
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How to add Klarna to a US Shopify store
- 1Keeping the EU entity purely to process EU payments via Shopify PaymentsDid this help you?
- 2Using a Merchant of Record like Shopify Managed Markets or Global-eDid this help you?
- 3Opening a direct Klarna merchant account and connecting it via a third-party gatewayDid this help you?
- 4Running a separate expansion store specifically for the DACH regionDid this help you?
- 5Using the e-commerce platform's native installment payment features insteadDid this help you?
- 6Waiting for the third-party payment provider to release a native integrationDid this help you?
In their words
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“We run a Shopify store selling in EUR to Germany and Austria, doing around 90 orders a day. Right now Shopify Payments is on an EU entity, and Klarna is huge for us: about 40% of our payments go through Klarna and other local methods.”source ↗
“We want to move Shopify Payments to our US LLC (Wyoming), but from what I see, US Shopify Payments doesn't offer Klarna to German or Austrian shoppers. Losing it would hurt our conversion badly, especially before Black Friday.”source ↗
“I had several clients asking for Klarna but is it worth the trouble to install it? If so, how did you manage to install klarna in your US store?”source ↗
“From what I saw it is a little trouble since the Klarna app is not available in the US shopify so I would have to add through other payment integrations…”source ↗
“We turned it off due to their high processing fees. It's not worth it. 😬”source ↗
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