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In late 2024, I had to set up a new Stripe account because I incorporated my company in a different country. Turns out it's not as simple as just changing the country in a dropdown, you have to start from scratch.

I had hundreds of users and using Stripe's dashboard to add all of the products, prices, coupons and subscriptions manually would take ages. I contacted a couple of services that help with this kind of migration, but their quotes were way over my budget. My next option was to use Stripe's API, which is very powerful but also very complicated. I'm a designer who can code, but I didn't feel confident doing it alone, so I asked a friend, an experienced developer, to help.

It proved to be quite challenging, with many details and caveats we had to learn as we went. What we thought would take a couple of days took us a week.

After this experience, we teamed up and built https://stripemove.com, a tool that guides you through this whole process, explaining and automating that hard week we went through. It handles the technical complexity while keeping your business running. Customers keep paying on your old account while everything transfers in parallel, then you flip the switch when ready.

It's a very niche tool, built for founders who need to change their company location for personal or business reasons. For entrepreneurs buying companies established in other countries. For people in the same situation I was in a few months ago. Basically the tool I wished existed, and for a fair price. Designed to get you through this inconvenient process and back as soon as possible on growing your business.

Would love to hear from anyone who's dealt with similar Stripe migrations. What was your biggest pain point?

Comments (11)

mtmail · 43m ago

We've been in that situation 5 years ago. Stripe's customer service moved the data (customers, subscriptions) over for us.

Edit: I've been corrected by my collage. Stripe only copied customer records. We had to manually stop and recreate the subscriptions.

x13 · 55m ago

How are you handling this?

https://stripe.com/legal/marks

Use or incorporate any of our Marks in your own trademark, service mark, trade dress, trade name, website name, domain name, corporate name, or social-media handle (or any other source-identifying use), or use any trademark, service mark, trade dress, trade name, website name, domain name, corporate name, or social-media handle (or any other source-identifying use) that is likely to be confused with any of our Marks.

absoluteunit1 · 1h ago

Oh interesting - I didn’t realize how much of a headache switching countries can be! Bookmarked as I might have to do something similar in the future.

diggan · 59m ago

> I didn’t realize how much of a headache switching countries can be

Indeed, and in some areas, it's easier to make the move with the government, than getting all the for-profit services to accept your country change.

For example, Sony/Playstation straight up refuses to change the country on your account, so even though I lived in Spain for more than 10 years, Playstation Store is still in Swedish and using SEK, and when I reached out to support they told me to create a new account if I wanted to change the country.

Google is another company where moving countries is really disorganized. I still get emails in Swedish, and a "payment/billing account" (different from "payment method") is still somehow locked to Sweden and cannot be changed or removed.

To actually get the residency with the government, I basically had to queue at the police station for some hour, then go to the bank and then I'm 100% done with my move. I'm surprised how much easier it was to deal with the government about this move, than companies that I actually pay money to...

jon-wood · 30m ago

I would be very tempted to invoke GDPR in this situation. Company's have an obligation to hold accurate data about you[1], which clearly neither Google or Sony are currently doing if they think your payment account is in Sweden, or your local currency is SEK.

[1] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...

elemeno · 34m ago

nit: on the front page it says "transfers everything seamless", I think you want to say "seamlessly" instead.

pxue · 24m ago

why do this instead of using a merchant of record?

joshstrange · 1h ago

I think you might want to rename, having “Stripe” in the name is asking for trouble.

diggan · 56m ago

I don't know the ecosystem, but seemingly Stripe themselves lists some projects/products/organizations that themselves have "Stripe" in their name, as part of the "Stripe Partner Ecosystem": https://stripe.partners/?search=stripe&sort=relevance

Still, risky to use someone else's trademark regardless, if they suddenly don't like you anymore they'll start to enforce it at the worst moment.

kevin_thibedeau · 27m ago

Their chief counsel will insist on enforcing it immediately. You can't be lax about protecting your trademarks some of the time.

absoluteunit1 · 1h ago

Was wondering about this as well. Might fly under the radar for a while but if your project grows you might draw attention from Stripe and having to rebrand later on will become difficult.

Also, what if you want to support this type of migration for other payment processors in the future? This name ties to just Stripe.

Also, tiny grammatical nitpick: the subheading should use the word seamlessly, not seamless there I think.