Merchant of Record · Cross-border commerce

Payments without borders.

OpenBorder is the merchant of record for global commerce. We become the legal seller and take on tax, duty, FX and compliance — so you can sell into any country as if it were home.

Built for cross-border teams
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More revenue, lower cost

Sell like a local, everywhere.

Local acquiring turns every cross-border sale into a domestic one — lifting approval rates, unlocking the payment methods buyers trust, and stripping out cross-border and FX fees.

Higher approval rates

Convert more checkouts

We acquire each payment locally in your buyer's country, so it lands as a domestic charge. Issuers approve more, and the false declines that plague cross-border cards fall away.

135+ methods · 140+ currencies

Pay the local way

Cards and wallets plus the methods shoppers actually reach for — iDEAL, SEPA, Klarna, Bancontact, Alipay, Pix and more — priced and settled in their local currency.

Lower effective rate

Cut the cost of going global

Local acquiring removes cross-border assessment fees and FX markups. Platform fee and tax withholding run through our own ledger — never a Connect application fee.

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One integration

Pay how the world pays.

Every card, wallet and local payment method your customers reach for — through a single OpenBorder integration.

VisaMastercardAmerican ExpressApple PayGoogle PayPayPaliDEALSEPA Direct DebitKlarnaBancontactAlipayWeChat PayPixPrzelewy24Cartes Bancaires+ 120 more
Payments that approve

More approvals on every cross-border order.

Cross-border cards get declined far more often than domestic ones. We stack every lever that lifts acceptance — so more good orders go through and fewer shoppers bounce at checkout.

  1. 01
    Local acquiring

    Process each charge through a local acquirer in the buyer's country, so the issuer sees a domestic transaction and approves more.

  2. 02
    Smart routing

    Send every payment to the acquirer most likely to approve it, market by market.

  3. 03
    Automatic retries & fallback

    Soft declines are re-attempted on another route before the shopper ever sees an error.

  4. 04
    135+ local & alternative methods

    Let shoppers pay the way they already trust — iDEAL, Klarna, TWINT, Pix, Alipay and more.

  5. 05
    AI fraud screening

    Block fraud without turning away good customers — accept more, charge back less.

One layer for the whole world

Everything between your cart and the customer's country.

Tax & duty, quoted before pay

Landed cost is classified and priced up front, then locked to the charge — never a surprise at the border, never client-supplied numbers we have to trust.

Entity routing, built in

Ship-to country resolves to an OpenBorder legal entity, the right acquiring account and the local currency — stamped immutably onto every transaction.

One integration, every market

A single API for payments, refunds, settlement and payouts — idempotent by default, with an event for every state change you can build on.

5+
Legal entities, one settlement seam
190+
Destination countries supported
0%
Tax & compliance risk on your books
1×
API for pay, refund & payout
Built for non-Shopify stacks

Cross-border payments for the rest of the stack.

World-class cross-border has mostly been a Shopify story. OpenBorder brings the same merchant-of-record muscle — local acquiring, local payment methods and guaranteed landed cost — to Medusa, Magento, Salesforce, BigCommerce and your own custom checkout, through one API and an MCP server. No replatforming.

Sell to the world. Leave the borders to us.

Spin up a sandbox, run a test charge end to end, and see a fully landed receipt in minutes — no real money moves until you say so.