Can I keep my Etsy shop and Payoneer account after moving abroad?
Platform restrictions prevent you from simply changing your account location to a new country. This forces you to close your existing accounts and create entirely new ones from scratch.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Closing the existing account and creating a new one in the new country
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“will I be required to close my existing created Etsy Shop & Account and Payoneer Account and open new Etsy Shop and Payoneer in that country? or I can continue using and selling using my first created Etsy Shop and Payoneer?”source ↗
krdesigner_ · r/Etsy · 2 upvotes
“No you can't change your location. Yes you'll probably be required to close the account and make a new one.”source ↗
aregonis · r/Etsy · 1 upvotes
Where this came up
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