Your own address and bank
Etsy enrols the seller at a residential address in an eligible country, with a bank account there.
Cleared by the LLC
Built for · Etsy
A US LLC for Etsy sellers outside the United States
Etsy now takes sellers in more countries, many through Payoneer, and it enrols you at your own home address. A US LLC doesn't turn a maker abroad into a US Etsy seller. It helps with what grows around the shop.
01 · Why a US company
What it does for Etsy sellers.
Check Etsy first.
Read the full explanation
Check Etsy first. Etsy Payments needs a residential address and a bank account in an eligible country, and sellers in Pakistan, Egypt, Brazil, the UAE and ten other countries now join through a Payoneer account. Where Etsy serves you, sell there as yourself.
A US LLC earns its place around the shop: a store of your own with Stripe or Shopify Payments, invoices to boutiques that buy wholesale, a company that owns the brand and its trademark, and the shop's money kept apart from yours.
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Payments off Etsy
Your own store can take Stripe or Shopify Payments as a US business.
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Invoices to shops
Boutiques buying wholesale pay a company's invoice by ACH.
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The name and the trademark
The company owns the brand, so the shop and the store sit under one name you could sell.
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Kept apart from you
The business's money stays out of your personal account.
Store · YouSeparate accounts
02 · What stands in the way
Three things in the way, and one way through.
A checkout that serves you
Selling from your own site needs Stripe, PayPal or Shopify Payments, and many don't serve the country you live in.
Cleared by the LLC
A company to invoice
Shops and boutiques buying wholesale want an invoice from a business and an account to pay.
Cleared by the LLC
A US LLC, beside the Etsy shop.
The company runs your own store and takes wholesale orders. Etsy keeps paying you where you live.
Start a company03 · Your options
Three ways for a maker abroad to sell.
Etsy brings the buyers. Your own store keeps more of each sale. A US LLC is what opens a checkout for that store when your country has none.
| Etsy, as yourself | Your own store, as yourself | Your own store, through a US LLCWhat we set up | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who can sell | Neutral: Makers where Etsy Payments works | Neutral: Anyone with a checkout that serves them | Works in your favour: Anyone, as a US business |
| Card checkout | Works in your favour: Etsy's own | A cost or a limit: Depends on your country | Works in your favour: Stripe, applied for as a US business |
| Fee a sale | A cost or a limit: 6.5%, plus Etsy's processing fee | Works in your favour: Your processor's fee | Works in your favour: Stripe's 2.9% + 30¢ |
| US sales tax | Works in your favour: Collected by Etsy | A cost or a limit: Yours above each state's threshold | A cost or a limit: Yours above each state's threshold |
| Who brings the buyers | Works in your favour: Etsy's search | A cost or a limit: You | A cost or a limit: You |
| Yearly US filing | Works in your favour: None | Works in your favour: None | A cost or a limit: Form 5472, and Wyoming's report |
Works in your favourNeutralA cost or a limitMost makers keep the Etsy shop where they live and add their own store beside it.
Etsy, as yourself
- Who can sell
- Makers where Etsy Payments works
- Card checkout
- Etsy's own
- Fee a sale
- 6.5%, plus Etsy's processing fee
- US sales tax
- Collected by Etsy
- Who brings the buyers
- Etsy's search
- Yearly US filing
- None
Neutral:
Works in your favour:
A cost or a limit:
Works in your favour:
Works in your favour:
Works in your favour:
Your own store, as yourself
- Who can sell
- Anyone with a checkout that serves them
- Card checkout
- Depends on your country
- Fee a sale
- Your processor's fee
- US sales tax
- Yours above each state's threshold
- Who brings the buyers
- You
- Yearly US filing
- None
Neutral:
A cost or a limit:
Works in your favour:
A cost or a limit:
A cost or a limit:
Works in your favour:
Your own store, through a US LLCWhat we set up
- Who can sell
- Anyone, as a US business
- Card checkout
- Stripe, applied for as a US business
- Fee a sale
- Stripe's 2.9% + 30¢
- US sales tax
- Yours above each state's threshold
- Who brings the buyers
- You
- Yearly US filing
- Form 5472, and Wyoming's report
Works in your favour:
Works in your favour:
Works in your favour:
A cost or a limit:
A cost or a limit:
A cost or a limit:
Works in your favourNeutralA cost or a limitMost makers keep the Etsy shop where they live and add their own store beside it.
04 · Step by step
From Etsy shop to a store of your own, in seven steps.
Etsy comes first, as yourself. The company is for everything beside it.
Step 1: Check Etsy's list for your country
If Etsy Payments serves you, open the shop as yourself, at your home address, with your own bank or a Payoneer account. If it doesn't, Etsy says you can't open a shop yet, with or without a US company.
Before anything elseYouStep 2: Form the Wyoming LLC
For your own store and wholesale. We file the articles online, and Wyoming approves an online filing the same day it is filed.
Same dayWe do itStep 3: Get the EIN
Without a Social Security Number the IRS issues it by fax, which is the slowest step. The expedited EIN, $199, has us file the day the company exists and chase it.
The longest waitWe do itStep 4: Open the US bank account
In the LLC's name. Stripe pays out to it, and wholesale buyers pay invoices into it by ACH.
Often days, after the EINYou, with the bankStep 5: Open your own store and its checkout
Apply to Stripe with the LLC's real details and your real address abroad. Shopify Payments asks for a US address where the business operates, so many makers use Stripe or PayPal there instead.
The processor's reviewYou, with the processorStep 6: Watch sales tax on your own store
Etsy collects it on Etsy sales. On your own store it's yours, once sales into a state pass its threshold, usually $100,000 a year. We register a store for $149 a state.
Before the thresholdYou, with usStep 7: Price the duty in, and diary the filings
Every parcel shipped into the US now owes duty, so decide whether you pay it or the buyer does at the door. Form 5472 is due each 15 April, and Wyoming's annual report on the first day of the month the LLC was formed in.
Every yearOn your calendar
05 · The honest part
What to know before you order.
Can I sell on Etsy from my country?
Check whether Etsy serves your country
Etsy says that in most markets where Etsy Payments isn't available, you can't open a shop. A US company doesn't change that, because Etsy enrols the seller at their own residential address, with a bank account in the same eligible country.
Read more
Sellers in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, Georgia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Peru, Serbia, South Korea, Thailand, Ukraine and the UAE join through Payoneer, and sellers in India may be able to.
Who handles sales tax on my Etsy sales?
Etsy collects sales tax on Etsy sales
Etsy is a marketplace facilitator in every state with a sales tax, so it collects and pays sales tax on your Etsy sales, and you don't register anywhere for them.
Read more
Sales from your own website are yours to handle once you pass a state's threshold.
Does the LLC owe US income tax?
Where the goods are made and shipped
Goods made and shipped from your country keep the company's income foreign-source and generally outside US income tax. Every parcel into the US now owes duty, though, since the $800 exemption was suspended on 29 August 2025.
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Holding stock with a US fulfilment company raises the same question Amazon sellers face, so ask before you do it.
Sources: Etsy Help, what is Etsy Payments?; Etsy, Fees & Payments Policy; Stripe, pricing; Shopify Help, Shopify Payments requirements in the United States; Texas Comptroller, remote sellers and marketplace providers; Federal Register, indefinite suspension of the de minimis exemption (2026); IRS, Instructions for Form 5472.
06 · What it costs
What it costs, line by line.
Etsy's from its fees policy, ours from our price list, Stripe's from its own page.
| Cost | Amount | When | What it covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Etsy listing | $0.20 | Each listing, every 4 months | Charged whether or not it sells. |
| Etsy transaction fee | 6.5% | Each sale | On the price plus shipping, before Etsy's processing fee for your country. |
| Etsy Offsite Ads | 15% | Only on sales they bring | 12% once your shop has made $10,000 in a year. |
| Launch, with Wyoming's feeOptional | $351.40 | First year | $249 to us and $102.40 to Wyoming, at cost. For your own store and wholesale. |
| Stripe, on your own storeOptional | 2.9% + 30¢ | Each sale | A US card. An international card costs 1.5% more. |
| From the second yearOptional | $309 | Every year | $249 for Launch and Wyoming's $60 minimum. Form 5472 is an accountant's fee on top. |
Etsy may also charge a one-time set-up fee when you open the shop, shown during sign-up.
The plan that fits
Launch, usually.
Most makers keep the Etsy shop and open their own store beside it.
Launch
Fits a maker's brandFor your first company, when it needs to exist and nothing more yet.
What it covers
- Your Wyoming LLC, filed, with the state fee at cost
- The EIN Stripe and the bank ask for
- Form 5472 and the annual report on your calendar
What a store of your own needs.
07 · Questions
Questions from Etsy sellers.
If yours is not here, email us at hello@baseacross.com before you order.
$0.20 to list an item for four months, a 6.5% transaction fee on the price plus shipping, and a payment processing fee that varies by country. Offsite Ads, when they bring a sale, cost 15%, or 12% for shops with $10,000 or more in sales over the past year.
For what sits beside the shop: your own store taking Stripe or Shopify Payments as a US business, wholesale invoices to US boutiques, a company that owns the brand and its trademark, and the business's money kept apart from yours.
Wyoming, for most sellers abroad: $60 a year to the state, no owner on the public record, and the state banks are used to seeing.
A Wyoming LLC on Launch is $351.40 for the first year: $249 for Launch and $102.40 to Wyoming, at cost. After that it is $309 a year, $249 to us and $60 to Wyoming.
Ready when you are
Answer the questions. We do the filing.
It takes about four minutes. You see the whole order, Wyoming fee included, before anything is charged.
Step 1 of 10 · About four minutesNothing charged yet
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Start a companyLaunch · $351.40 · Wyoming fee included