Meet Georgie Kerr, founder of Elk & Friends — an Australian brand creating fun, eco-friendly products for kids. Since 2015, she’s used WorldFirst to simplify cross-border payments for her Amazon US and Canada business. Discover how she avoids the double conversion trap with our multi-currency World Card 👇
We started using World First when we first started in 2015. So we removed World First for nine years, 10 years. Hi, my name is Georgie, my friend's Elk and friends. I sell in Amazon and the US and Canadian markets and I'm looking to expand globally this year. So we started in 2015 and we initially just started an Amazon US there. I saw that gap in that market. We obviously needed a U.S. bank account for us to be paid and there wasn't any options out there at that time too for offshore bank account. So we'll first. Probably one of the first ones that allowed us to do that with World First, we receive USD from our American marketplace. Of course, for our suppliers, we pay in USD and it's an easy process. Didn't hold back when the World Cup was available because it was such a great option to be able to pay my USD dollar bills through the debit card facility. That was very difficult. In the past, a lot of times we had to use our Australian credit card or debit card and we'd lose money through conversion fees. The World Card we use for our advertising spend. We pay for all our. Subscription costs, Amazon advertising as well as just general office skills that we have and also if we go away on travel, if we use that for our business travel as well. Switching to World First was an easy option for us. There's low fees or transparent fees. Having the World card is a a great option for us as well as having their account manager. So having that support when you need it and responsive support has been brilliant.
