{"id":2142,"date":"2020-05-17T22:33:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T22:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/?post_type=article&p=2142"},"modified":"2025-06-19T10:09:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:09:55","slug":"how-to-apply-for-shopify-payments","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/?article=how-to-apply-for-shopify-payments","title":{"rendered":"How to apply for Shopify payments"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Login to your Shopify online store<\/li>\n
  2. In the left menu click Settings and then General<\/li>\n
  3. In the Store address section make sure to have your company address their and your company name used as legal name of business and the country is set to United kingdom.<\/li>\n
  4. Once your store address is updated browse down and click Save<\/li>\n
  5. In the left menu click Settings and then Payments<\/li>\n
  6. Click activate Shopify payments<\/li>\n
  7. – Under business type select Private limited company.
    \n– Legal business name is your company name.
    \n– CRN is your company number that has been sent to you in the attachments of the delivery email, if you can’t find it just go to https:\/\/beta.companieshouse.gov.uk\/ and search for your company name and then you’ll find everything about your company including your company number.
    \n– Select No under VAT number.
    \n–\u00a0 Make sure your company address is there
    \n– Enter your personal details, for your address use your home address where you live.
    \n– Under additional owners and directors select I am the only owner if you are.
    \n– Under product details you type a description about the products you sell.
    \n– Statement descriptor you can type your company name.
    \n– For your Banking info type your GBP bank account from TransferWise<\/li>\n
  8. And finally click Complete account setup<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[47,61],"article-tag":[62,95,94],"class_list":["post-2142","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-general","article-category-shopify","article-tag-shopify","article-tag-shopify-pay","article-tag-shopify-payments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/article\/2142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/article\/2142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385,"href":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/article\/2142\/revisions\/2385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Farticle-category&post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpdesk.privatily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Farticle-tag&post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}