Show HN: I built the tool I wished existed for moving Stripe between countries

Posted by felphos 7/1/2025

Show HN: I built the tool I wished existed for moving Stripe between countries(www.stripemove.com)

In late 2024, I had to set up a new Stripe account because I incorporated my company in a different country. Turns out it's not as simple as just changing the country in a dropdown, you have to start from scratch.

I had hundreds of users and using Stripe's dashboard to add all of the products, prices, coupons and subscriptions manually would take ages. I contacted a couple of services that help with this kind of migration, but their quotes were way over my budget. My next option was to use Stripe's API, which is very powerful but also very complicated. I'm a designer who can code, but I didn't feel confident doing it alone, so I asked a friend, an experienced developer, to help.

It proved to be quite challenging, with many details and caveats we had to learn as we went. What we thought would take a couple of days took us a week.

After this experience, we teamed up and built https://stripemove.com, a tool that guides you through this whole process, explaining and automating that hard week we went through. It handles the technical complexity while keeping your business running. Customers keep paying on your old account while everything transfers in parallel, then you flip the switch when ready.

It's a very niche tool, built for founders who need to change their company location for personal or business reasons. For entrepreneurs buying companies established in other countries. For people in the same situation I was in a few months ago. Basically the tool I wished existed, and for a fair price. Designed to get you through this inconvenient process and back as soon as possible on growing your business.

Would love to hear from anyone who's dealt with similar Stripe migrations. What was your biggest pain point?

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kundi 7/1/2025|

How are you dealing with privacy and data concerns? Accessing a Stripe account is a big privacy concern and should be handled with highest order of care and data protection

felphos 7/1/2025|

We don’t save any data from the customers in our platform. The migration happens via restricted Stripe API keys from one account to the other with minimal permissions and we can't make changes to the account beyond what's necessary for the transfer. Once the process is done you can just revoke the API keys access.

elemeno 7/1/2025||

nit: on the front page it says "transfers everything seamless", I think you want to say "seamlessly" instead.

adriand 7/1/2025||

“Transfer everything with few clicks” should be “Transfer everything with a few clicks”; although the former version is not grammatically incorrect it’s not how this phrase is typically used.

felphos 7/1/2025||

Thanks. Fixed.

Horffupolde 7/1/2025||

Does Stripe even allow this?

felphos 7/1/2025|

Yes, we use Stripe's official APIs and follow their recommended migration practices. There are other services also helping with this process and they have been operating for a few years.

pxue 7/1/2025||

why do this instead of using a merchant of record?

joshstrange 7/1/2025|

I think you might want to rename, having “Stripe” in the name is asking for trouble.

diggan 7/1/2025||

I don't know the ecosystem, but seemingly Stripe themselves lists some projects/products/organizations that themselves have "Stripe" in their name, as part of the "Stripe Partner Ecosystem": https://stripe.partners/?search=stripe&sort=relevance

Still, risky to use someone else's trademark regardless, if they suddenly don't like you anymore they'll start to enforce it at the worst moment.

gruez 7/1/2025|||

>I don't know the ecosystem, but seemingly Stripe themselves lists some projects/products/organizations that themselves have "Stripe" in their name, as part of the "Stripe Partner Ecosystem": https://stripe.partners/?search=stripe&sort=relevance

The issue isn't having "Stripe" in the product name, it's having it in a way that implies it's by Stripe, mostly by putting it first. The top 3 hits from your linked search don't really have that issue. "Stripe Move" makes it sound like it's a product from stripe, "Move for Stripe" would not.

kevin_thibedeau 7/1/2025|||

Their chief counsel will insist on enforcing it immediately. You can't be lax about protecting your trademarks some of the time.

felphos 7/1/2025|||

We went with it because the other services I mentioned also had Stripe in their names and have been operating for a few years. At the moment our product is so connected to Stripe that we felt having Stripe in the name was necessary to make its purpose clear. We added to our content that we are not affiliated to them, if we have to change the name in the future that is something we will have to deal with.

dataflow 7/2/2025||

Total layman here and I don't know what you've seen, but generally the thing I've seen companies avoid is starting their names with someone else's trademark. (So "Move for Stripe" rather than "Stripe Move", for example.)

absoluteunit1 7/1/2025|||

Was wondering about this as well. Might fly under the radar for a while but if your project grows you might draw attention from Stripe and having to rebrand later on will become difficult.

Also, what if you want to support this type of migration for other payment processors in the future? This name ties to just Stripe.

Also, tiny grammatical nitpick: the subheading should use the word seamlessly, not seamless there I think.

rstupek 7/1/2025||

It's unlikely to fly under the radar as Stripe founders and employees are regularly on HN.