Selling on Etsy, Amazon or Shopify from Turkey: How You Get Paid (2026)

If you sell online from Turkey, the payment side is the part that trips people up. PayPal has not worked here since 2016, Stripe does not accept Turkish businesses, and Shopify’s own checkout is switched off for Turkish stores. Each platform has its own workaround. This page covers the three most people ask about, and where a Payoneer account helps.

This is for anyone selling from a Turkey base: foreign residents running a shop from Istanbul and Turkish sellers alike. For freelance and salary income, see getting paid in Turkey.

The short answer

Platform	How a Turkey-based seller gets paid	Where Payoneer fits
Etsy	Etsy Payments deposits to the bank account on file for your shop, in the shop’s country	Optional: for holding USD and paying suppliers abroad
Amazon (US, EU marketplaces)	Usually a Payoneer receiving account in the marketplace’s currency, then withdraw to a Turkish bank	The standard route for most sellers
Shopify	A Turkish payment provider (iyzico, PayTR, Craftgate) collects card payments and pays out to your bank	Not needed for checkout
PayPal	Not available in Turkey since June 2016	Replace it with Payoneer receiving details
Stripe	Not available to Turkish businesses	n/a

Etsy

Etsy Payments is available for shops in Türkiye. The buyer pays by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay; Etsy deducts its listing, transaction and payment processing fees, plus a regulatory operating fee for Türkiye shops, and deposits the rest on the schedule you choose.

Two rules decide how the money reaches you:

• The bank account must be in your shop’s country. When you open a shop you pick a bank country, and Etsy only pays to a bank account from that country. A Turkey shop is paid to a Turkish bank account; you cannot point it at a US account number from Payoneer.
• PayPal is not available to sellers in Türkiye. If your shop offered PayPal, Etsy removes it when you enrol in Etsy Payments.

Türkiye is not one of the countries where Etsy requires a Payoneer account (that list includes Egypt, Georgia, India, Pakistan, Ukraine and the UAE). Many Turkish Etsy sellers still open one, to hold dollars and pay print-on-demand suppliers or tools that bill in USD without converting twice.

Check the exact deposit currency and fees on your own Etsy dashboard under Finances, Payment settings. Etsy’s fee pages change often and the dashboard is the only reliable source for your shop.

Amazon

Selling on amazon.com or the European Amazon stores from Turkey is common, and the usual payout route is Payoneer. You open a Payoneer account, which gives you local receiving details such as a US account and routing number for amazon.com or a euro account for the EU stores. You enter those in Seller Central as your deposit method. Amazon pays into Payoneer, and you withdraw to your Turkish bank account in lira or to a Turkish dollar or euro account.

Amazon’s list of countries where it can pay a local bank directly changes over time, so check the deposit methods Seller Central offers your account before you commit. Amazon.com.tr, the Turkish store, is separate: it pays Turkish sellers to a Turkish bank like any domestic marketplace.

Open a Payoneer account (affiliate link). New accounts opened through this link get a $35 reward from Payoneer after $5,000 of outgoing transactions, which includes withdrawals to your bank and card payments, within the first 100 days.

Shopify

Shopify works in Turkey: you can open a store, run the admin panel in Turkish and sell in lira. What does not work is Shopify Payments, Shopify’s built-in checkout, which is not active for Turkish stores. It runs on Stripe, and Stripe does not accept businesses in Turkey either.

Instead you connect a licensed Turkish payment provider. The three you will see most:

• iyzico, with an official Shopify app and the easiest setup.
• PayTR, often cheaper per transaction for higher volume.
• Craftgate, used by larger stores that route payments across several banks.

Each needs a registered business, tax details and an application that can take from a few days to a few weeks. Payouts go to your Turkish bank account. Shopify also adds a small transaction fee on top when you use a third-party provider, depending on your plan, and your Shopify subscription itself is billed in dollars.

Other payouts

Several other platforms pay Turkey-based users through Payoneer or to a Payoneer receiving account, among them freelance marketplaces such as Upwork and Fiverr and some ad networks and affiliate programs. The pattern is the same as Amazon: the platform pays your Payoneer account, and you withdraw to your Turkish bank. Check each platform’s payout settings for what it supports in Turkey.

Tax, briefly

Selling physical goods abroad from Turkey is an export. Small parcels usually go out as micro-exports under an electronic export declaration (ETGB), with 0% VAT on the export sale, and you need a registered business to invoice. The 100% service-export deduction that took effect in 2026 covers services such as software and design, not goods; it is explained in the getting paid guide. Foreign residents who became Turkish tax resident from 2026 should also read the 20-year foreign-income exemption, which covers foreign-source income, not a Turkish business’s sales. Work through the setup with a mali müşavir (accountant) before your first sale.

Disclosure

The Payoneer link on this page is an affiliate link: we earn a commission if you sign up, at no cost to you. Etsy, Amazon, Shopify, iyzico, PayTR and Craftgate do not pay us.