Hey All, I've been lurking here for a while so this is an opportune time to introduce myself. I'm the other half of Digital Pigeon along with Dan Washusen. After reading this post, about an month ago I got the ball rolling on sorting this out for us. I gotta say it was far, far easier than this thread implies.
1st step: Get an EIN. Call the IRS, don't apply online. It takes all of 10 minutes to get it. http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employed/How-to-Apply-for-an-EIN 2nd step: Get a US Bank account. It took us about 2 weeks all told to have a SVB account opened. Most of the time is printing, signing and scanning documents. I assume you may need to sell yourself a bit here but we were accepted immediately (with a modest turnover). 3rd step: Signup for Stripe. This is practically instantaneous, although there is a slight hiccup in that their account details expects as US address. I jammed our Melbourne address in and added a 0 to our postcode (so stripe has our state as New Hampshire). The Aussie developer we made contact there (whilst asking if we could legitimately use Stripe from AU) asked if we could sort out a US PO box at least to satisfy that address, otherwise he was happy that we could use Stripe. 4th step: Marvel at the simplicity of accepting USD with all credit cards while the AUD takes a dive. Cheers, Stuart On Thursday, 27 June 2013 21:38:33 UTC+10, Gary wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I asked Stripe about this post today and there response was - > > "I'm afraid that the information in that post is a bit misleading. > > To set up a US account on Stripe, you would need: > > - US tax ID > - US bank account > - SSN or scanned government ID, such as a passport > - significant operations in the US" > > Gary > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
