Your business.
Your choice.
Shopify or Stripe not loving your business like you do? Choose a shop platform that works around your business.
Choose from supported payment providers.
Gax. We show the payment providers we support, and each shop’s setup and status. Your plan sets how many connections you get: one on the small shop plan, and more than one on the growing shop plan. Approval, business categories and fees stay with the provider. If a provider will not take your business, we say so and work through the alternatives with you.
Gax charges no transaction fee. Your payment provider charges separately for processing payments and decides whether it can accept your business.
Shopify payment rules and fees
Shopify. You have two ways to take card payments through another provider. A third-party provider can be your only card provider, or one direct third-party provider can work alongside Shopify Payments. If Shopify Payments does not cover your country or your kind of business, check which other providers are available and will take you on.
The alongside setup allows one direct third-party provider at a time, and it is not available to businesses that run as more than one company. For Shopify Plus stores with a contract, it is early access, by request. Shopify’s UK pricing lists third-party transaction fees from 2% on Basic down to 0.2% on Plus. Those fees are charged on top of what the provider charges you. With the alongside setup, payments taken through Shopify Payments — including recovered card payments — cost its standard rate plus 1.25%. Check the fees for your plan and your payment setup before you decide. Sources checked 12 November 2026.
Shopify Payments supported countries · third-party providers · using both together · UK pricing
Stripe. Stripe splits businesses into three groups: those it bans (they cannot use Stripe at all), those it restricts (more checks before approval), and categories that depend on the country. The list changes. The page we checked was last updated 22 September 2026.
Stripe prohibited and restricted businesses
Will changing platform solve it?
A provider turning you down does not, on its own, mean you need a new shop platform. If Shopify supports a provider that will take your business, and the rest of the shop fits, changing provider may be enough. Think about a platform move when the connection, or the way your shop has to work, is the real limit. Gax is a shop platform, not a payment broker: moving to Gax does not skip a provider’s approval checks.
Own the shop. Choose the payments.
Keep control of your domain, your data and your connections. We check a payment provider against your products and the countries you sell to before you move.
Build what your business needs.
Use your shop in a browser on your phone, tablet or desktop. See orders and checkout activity as they happen. Connect the services your business uses, with clear permissions for any AI tools. Extra connections are agreed and quoted before work starts.
Plans start at £19.99 a month + VAT, with £299 + VAT setup. What each price covers →
Gax and Shopify: the practical differences → · Moving the shop as well →
Plan my move Tell us what you sell, where you sell it and who takes your payments. We reply with a plan for your shop.