{"id":2124,"date":"2020-04-08T11:46:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T11:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/?post_type=article&p=2124"},"modified":"2025-06-18T15:50:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:50:54","slug":"creating-transferwise-business-uk-account","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/?article=creating-transferwise-business-uk-account","title":{"rendered":"How to create Wise Business UK account"},"content":{"rendered":"

To create a TransferWise business UK account you have to follow these steps:<\/p>\n

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  1. Go to Privatily.com\/TW<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Click Business<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Enter your email and password<\/li>\n
  4. Set United Kingdom as country of registration and click Sign up<\/li>\n
  5. And then type your company name and make sure that all the information about your company is correct
    \n(Note: Go to     https:\/\/beta.companieshouse.gov.uk\/<\/a> and search for your company name there to find all the information about your company)<\/li>\n
  6. Once you finish entering your company information click continue.<\/li>\n
  7. For Business activity category choose your category (Choose Other retail.. if you sell products online)<\/li>\n
  8. For Subcategory choose Other retail.. too<\/li>\n
  10. In the details page enter all your personal info, name, date of birth, personal phone number (Use your real local phone number)<\/li>\n
  11. Once you finish up entering these information click continue.<\/li>\n
  12. What would you like to do first? choose Receive and hold money<\/li>\n
  13. TransferWise will ask you to turn on 2 step authentication therefore they will send you an SMS to your number to verify it with your TransferWise account.<\/li>\n
  14. Next they will ask you which Currency you want to open, choose USD or whatever you want (Later you can add other currencies too such as EUR and GBP…)<\/li>\n
  15. Next they will show your debit card \"\"<\/li>\n
  16. If you have an address in Europe click on order your card and choose your address, but if you don’t live in Europe you need to have a PO Box in countries such as UK, Best services to use:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    • UKpostbox (For everyone)<\/li>\n
    • Shopandship (More for Arab countries)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      P.S. If you have paid for the Premium package, just reach out to us and we’ll take care of that for you.<\/p>\n

      17. after you enter your PO box address click continue, and then click again continue<\/p>\n

      18. click next<\/p>\n

      19. And then add money to your account using your card (That money is going to be your balance, TransferWise will not take it)<\/p>\n

      20. Upload your documents.<\/p>\n

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