Merchant of record
Legal seller in every market, so the liability and the paperwork sit with Nordgate.
100%
of seller-of-record liability carried for them
All customers
Pro-audio software makerAudio & creative
A pro-audio plugin maker opened Japan and Brazil without a local entity, lifting checkout conversion with localized payment methods.
Bristol studio, selling worldwideFounded 2014
11 days to launch in Japan
from contract to first yen settled
The challenge
Before Nordgate.
The maker's mixing and mastering plugins had a cult following in Japan, but the team had no way to bill in yen and no appetite for setting up a Japanese subsidiary just to test the market.
Card-only checkout left money on the table. A meaningful share of Japanese buyers expected konbini and carrier billing, and Brazilian producers wanted Pix and installments, none of which it could offer.
The starting point
- Vendors to manage6+
- Markets they could bill inlimited
- Liability on their team100%
Illustrative snapshot of the stack they ran before switching.
What we did
On Nordgate.
Nordgate stood up localized checkout in both markets under our own entities, so the maker never registered a company abroad. Pricing, tax, and receipts rendered in local currency and language out of the box.
We switched on the payment methods each market actually uses, including Pix and local card installments in Brazil, and handled consumption tax filing in Japan.
Settled volume after switching
indexed, illustrativeSample trend, not actual customer figures.
What Nordgate ran
Subscriptions
Recurring billing with automatic retries, so failed cards recover without anyone watching.
Recovered revenuecompounding
Tax & compliance
VAT, GST, and sales tax calculated, collected, and filed in every region they reach.
12
regions filed
0
filings on them
Fraud, disputes & support
Real-time scoring, dispute representment, and buyer support in the local language.
24/7
buyer support
30+
languages
The results
What changed.
+34%
Checkout conversion in Japan
2 markets
Opened with no local entity
9 methods
Local payment options added
All figures are illustrative sample data.
“We always knew Japan loved our plugins, we just had no way to take their money. Nordgate had us settling in yen inside two weeks, with the payment methods buyers actually expect.”
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