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Two things before your first sale — your keys and your platform.

Adding SellAbroad to your store takes two things: your credentials, and the guide for the platform your store runs on.

1. Get your credentials

Your SellAbroad account is provisioned by our team. When it is ready, your account manager gives you:

  • Merchant ID — identifies your store on every request, webhook, and dashboard view. It is not secret; the storefront snippets and widgets use it in the browser by design.
  • API key — authenticates your server's calls to our API, sent in the x-api-key header. Required for custom-API integrations and the WooCommerce plugin. Unlike the Merchant ID, it is a secret.

Don't have these yet? Contact your SellAbroad account manager to request access.

2. Keep your API key server-side

Send your API key only from your server — never in browser JavaScript, a mobile app, or a public repository. Anyone holding it can create carts and charges against your account. If a key is ever exposed, contact SellAbroad to rotate it.

3. Pick your platform

Each guide is self-contained. Follow the one for your store:

Shopify

Add a checkout page and a theme snippet.

WooCommerce

Install our plugin, or set up a hosted page.

Custom store

Connect over our API.

What is SellAbroad

Sell to customers everywhere. SellAbroad runs the international checkout, payments, tax and payouts on top of your store.

Shopify

SellAbroad runs the international checkout for your Shopify store — buyers see local prices and pay through SellAbroad, on a page of your own domain.

On this page

1. Get your credentials2. Keep your API key server-side3. Pick your platform