Merchant of Record · Cross-border commerce

Payments without borders.

OpenBorder is the merchant of record for global commerce. We become the legal seller and take on tax, duty, FX and compliance — so you can sell into any country as if it were home.

Built for cross-border teams
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Why OpenBorder

Sell like a local, everywhere.

We become the legal seller in-market. Tax and duty stop being your problem, declines stop costing you sales, and the cost of every cross-border order comes down.

No registrations, no filings

We handle taxes & duties

As merchant of record we register, collect and remit sales tax, VAT, GST and import duty in every market you sell into — so you never open a foreign tax registration or file a return in a currency you don't hold.

The liability is ours

Tax & duty, guaranteed

Landed cost is calculated and locked to the charge before your buyer pays. The number is guaranteed — no surprise bill at the border, and no tax exposure sitting on your books if an assessment ever comes back different.

20–60% higher authorization

Convert more checkouts

Local acquiring turns every cross-border sale into a domestic one, so issuers approve far more of them. Fewer false declines means more of the demand you already paid to acquire actually converts.

135+ methods · lower effective rate

Local methods, lower fees

Shoppers pay with the methods they trust — iDEAL, SEPA, Klarna, Alipay, Pix — while local acquiring strips out cross-border assessment fees and FX markups, cutting what you pay per order.

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One integration

Pay how the world pays.

Every card, wallet and local payment method your customers reach for — through a single OpenBorder integration.

Visa
Mastercard
American Express
Discover
Apple Pay
Google Pay
PayPal
Klarna
SEPA
Alipay
WeChat Pay
Pix

Plus iDEAL, Bancontact, Przelewy24, Cartes Bancaires, TWINT, Blik and 120+ more — priced and settled in your buyer's local currency.

Payments that approve

More approvals on every cross-border order.

Cross-border cards get declined far more often than domestic ones. We stack every lever that lifts acceptance — so more good orders go through and fewer shoppers bounce at checkout.

  1. 01
    Local acquiring

    Every charge is processed through a local acquirer in the buyer's country, so the issuer sees a domestic transaction and approves far more of them.

  2. 02
    Smart routing

    Each payment goes to the acquirer most likely to approve it, market by market and issuer by issuer.

  3. 03
    135+ local & alternative methods

    Shoppers pay the way they already trust — iDEAL, Klarna, TWINT, Pix, Alipay and more — instead of abandoning a card form that would have declined.

  4. 04
    AI fraud screening

    Fraud is blocked without turning away good customers — accept more, charge back less.

One layer for the whole world

Everything between your cart and the customer's country.

Tax & duty, quoted before pay

Landed cost is classified and priced up front, then locked to the charge — never a surprise at the border, never client-supplied numbers we have to trust.

Entity routing, built in

Ship-to country resolves to an OpenBorder legal entity, the right acquiring account and the local currency — stamped immutably onto every transaction.

One integration, every market

A single API for payments, refunds, settlement and payouts — idempotent by default, with an event for every state change you can build on.

5+
Legal entities, one settlement seam
190+
Destination countries supported
0%
Tax & compliance risk on your books
1×
API for pay, refund & payout
Built for non-Shopify stacks

Cross-border payments for the rest of the stack.

World-class cross-border has mostly been a Shopify story. OpenBorder brings the same merchant-of-record muscle — local acquiring, local payment methods and guaranteed landed cost — to Medusa, Magento, Salesforce, BigCommerce and your own custom checkout, through one API and an MCP server. No replatforming.

Sell to the world. Leave the borders to us.

Spin up a sandbox, run a test charge end to end, and see a fully landed receipt in minutes — no real money moves until you say so.