International payments for exporters
Exporters can take advantage of bank-beating exchange rates and access locally-based currency accounts in ten currencies to collect, hold & pay from one platform.

Collect overseas funds with your easy alternative to a bank account abroad
With a World Account, you can pay suppliers in their local currency and choose the best time to move your money.
- Open 15+ currency accounts for free and start collecting funds from international customers in local currency
- Integrate your currency accounts with Xero to save time on accounting
- No annual fees, deposit requirements or minimum transaction level
- Available for USD, GBP, AUD, CAD, CNH, EUR, HKD, JPY, NZD, and SGD
- Hold funds and repatriate funds when it suits you
Spend less time managing the day-to-day and more time growing your business
Excellent customer service
- Make transfers online 24/7
- Always speak to a dedicated WorldFirst relationship manager, never a machine
- Ask us anything – we’re happy to help or we’ll suggest someone who can
One central dashboard
- Easily track and monitor all your currency accounts in one place
- Access live exchange rates across multiple currencies
- Quickly manage tasks through the intuitive, easy-to-use interface
Xero Integration
- Instantly sync all your transactions for a real-time view of your accounts
- Simple, one-time sign-up to help you start saving admin time
- More than 2 million customers trust Xero – that’s why we chose them as our partners
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Businesses Trust WorldFirst
- Almost 1,000,000 business have sent $300B around the world with WorldFirst and its partner brands since 2004
- Your money is safeguarded with leading financial institutions
Hear from Our Customers
It gives us that flexibility to use one card across multiple currencies. We pay for all our subscription costs, our Amazonad vertising, as well as general office bills.
Georgie Kerr
Founder
Elk & Friends
WorldFirst is easy for us. It was fast, we had a dedicated account manager. We had transparency and we had favourable exchange rates.
Annette Katinis
Co-founder
Scoot Boot
Your money is always safe with WorldFirst. So you can hold your funds and pay your suppliers directly, without moving money from your bank account.
Rocky Yan
Founder
Party Bestbuy
With WorldFirst, having an option to pay directly to 1688 is very convenient. All we do is transfer directly or to the factory, and we know it will get there fast.
Mark & Jenny Brookfield
Owners
Sunrise Accessories
It gives us that flexibility to use one card across multiple currencies. We pay for all our subscription costs, our Amazonad vertising, as well as general office bills.
Georgie Kerr
Founder
Elk & Friends
WorldFirst is easy for us. It was fast, we had a dedicated account manager. We had transparency and we had favourable exchange rates.
Annette Katinis
Co-founder
Scoot Boot
Your money is always safe with WorldFirst. So you can hold your funds and pay your suppliers directly, without moving money from your bank account.
Rocky Yan
Founder
Party Bestbuy
With WorldFirst, having an option to pay directly to 1688 is very convenient. All we do is transfer directly or to the factory, and we know it will get there fast.
Mark & Jenny Brookfield
Owners
Sunrise Accessories
Simply the best
I would choose them again without hesitation. The issue was resolved very quickly, and the customer service is extremely helpful!
Mr Vitalij Gurkov, February 05
I have used Worldfirst for many years…
I have found the service to be very good. Transactions have always gone without a problem.
peter carmichael, January 17
Wow! What rapid and helpful support
Silly me used wrong login and hit problems but got quick responses and help very soon.