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# Payment Gateway

### What to know

* It's important to understand you can only take payments from the UK and Ireland.
* You need to have setup and registered either as a limited company or sole trader
* You **cannot** use Stripe, paypal (in the first two years) when they find out you are they block and freeze funds which can ruin your business.&#x20;
* You will need a [business bank account](/business-setup/uk-banking.md) for payments to be deposited into.&#x20;
* Payouts are made to your bank usually daily as a lump sum of all the payments made on your website.
* Below is a video on how to signup and setup the high risk payment gateway

### Video

{% embed url="<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_z8TO6GMn4>" %}
Apple and google pay high risk payment gateway for UK Raffle Competition Websites
{% endembed %}

### Signing up

Fill in the below signup form - this sends the company i talk about a video all the information they need and helps them get you setup faster - they then know exactly what software you are running which helps!

<https://services.getfoundni.co.uk/competition-website-payment-gateway/>

{% embed url="<https://services.getfoundni.co.uk/competition-website-payment-gateway/>" %}
