All depends on the country your bank account is in.
As an Australian company selling to the US, we've kinda been left in the lurch with their AU beta.
When it was launched we were told they were working on being able to accept/convert USD into AU accounts, so at the time we (incredibly naively) started building our subscription code around their API, assuming it'd be ready by the time we were.
Almost 6 months later and all we can get out of them is "we don't have an eta but we're working on it", and we've been sitting here the whole time losing money hoping that it's just around the corner, when really we should have just thrown out the work we'd done and gone with a provider that can already handle it.
You should check out https://pin.net.au/ – it's an Australian competitor to Stripe. You can accept payments in USD and Pin will settle in USD to an Australian account (this is exactly what we do at FastMail). We've been using them exclusively for the last few months and are pretty happy, other than the lack of Amex support, which they're still working on.
Thanks - we originally looked at them but they didn't have recurring payment support at the time.
Since then they "acquired" an entirely separate recurring payments company (I don't recall the name), and it was all just a bit too much of an integration mess at the time, when compared to Stripe who also announced their beta then.
Oh no — I'm very sorry to hear that. We try to avoid giving ETAs for functionality in order to avoid having people get stuck like this. (At the same time, we sometimes do indicate when we plan to do something — which does have this failure mode.) But we should probably have been clearer that it wasn't going to happen imminently — want to drop me a line at michelle@stripe.com and I'll see if there's any way we can help?
As an Australian company selling to the US, we've kinda been left in the lurch with their AU beta.
When it was launched we were told they were working on being able to accept/convert USD into AU accounts, so at the time we (incredibly naively) started building our subscription code around their API, assuming it'd be ready by the time we were.
Almost 6 months later and all we can get out of them is "we don't have an eta but we're working on it", and we've been sitting here the whole time losing money hoping that it's just around the corner, when really we should have just thrown out the work we'd done and gone with a provider that can already handle it.