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It would be nice if companies accepted regional payment options, for example, Canada has Interac e-transfer to easily transfer funds from one bank account to another, local businesses in Canada have offered this as an option for payment but anything international it’s either PayPal or CC.
Interac E-transfer is so simple to use and definitely beats having to use third-party apps like Venmo and CashApp.
Most do, Steam accepts a fair few regional ones like the Dutch iDEAL. But it barely matters if a lot of people pay with Visa/MasterCard instead.
Do you have to somehow enable them? There is a common standard for paying directly from your online bank here in Finland, but Steam doesn't seem to support it.
Might depend on the market. The Finnish market is not even a third of the Dutch market, so perhaps it's just a business decision whether they support it or not. They do support iDEAL without needing to enable anything.
It makes no sense for any country to give American companies money for the pleasure of processing their own internal payments.