The company Amazon and Stripe were waiting for.
Marketplaces and payment processors increasingly verify sellers against a real business, not a person. A US LLC with its own EIN is what lets Seller Central, Shopify Payments and Stripe treat you as a company instead of routing you into individual-seller limits, extra document requests or, for foreign individuals without an EIN, backup withholding on your own payouts.
What's included
- LLC or C-Corp formation in the state you choose, in 1-2 business days
- EIN from the IRS, no SSN or ITIN required, for Seller Central and Stripe applications
- Registered agent and US business address, both required for marketplace verification
- Operating agreement and certificate of formation, the documents Amazon's identity review can ask for
- E-commerce analytics add-on once you are trading, Shopify and Amazon in one dashboard
- Bookkeeping and tax filing, including the sales-tax side, when you need them
What it costs
Plus your state's filing fee, paid directly to the Secretary of State. The same formation plan every other NameMarshal company uses - nothing e-commerce-specific is priced separately at this stage.
What sellers find out the hard way
A US entity is becoming the real requirement, not a nice-to-have
Amazon's seller identity verification and Stripe's underwriting both lean harder on business documentation than they used to. A registered LLC with an EIN clears both faster than an individual account ever will, and avoids the account holds that come with re-verification requests.
Without an EIN, a foreign individual's payouts can be withheld at source
US platforms generally must withhold at the IRS backup rate on payments to a person who has not provided a valid taxpayer ID. A company with an EIN and the right tax form on file removes that withholding entirely - money you would otherwise not see until the next tax season.
One entity, every marketplace
Amazon, Shopify, Etsy, TikTok Shop and a direct Stripe checkout can all sit under the same LLC, the same EIN and the same bank account, instead of a different identity stitched together per platform.
Built to work with the platforms you already use
Especially relevant if you're in
Not a generic country list -- these are the specific markets where this service solves a real, documented problem.
PayPal's forced 8% conversion on withdrawals is exactly what a US LLC with its own Stripe account routes around.
No direct Stripe access at all -- a US LLC is the standard workaround Nigerian sellers already use to reach Shopify Payments and Stripe.
Total Stripe blockage plus a large freelancer and reseller base makes this one of the clearest ecommerce-formation cases anywhere.
Everything else your US company needs
Bookkeeping
Categorised transactions, connected bank feeds, invoices out the door, reports you can hand a lender.
Business taxes
Federal and state filings handled on time, with a licensed professional on a call when you need one.
Registered agent
Required in every state. Yours is included, and your mail is scanned to you.
E-commerce analytics
Shopify and Amazon sales, orders and ad spend in one dashboard, next to your books.
EIN without an SSN
The biggest blocker for founders outside the US. We run the SS-4 process end to end.
Sales tax & nexus
Economic nexus and marketplace facilitator rules, tracked and filed so a threshold crossed in a state you have never visited does not turn into a notice.
US LLC for Amazon FBA
Formed the way Seller Central actually verifies, with the right tax form from day one.
US LLC for Shopify
Built for the operational-presence check behind Shopify Payments, not just a certificate and an EIN.
US LLC for dropshipping
Wyoming-first, priced for a business with no US inventory and a real answer on nexus.
US LLC for TikTok Shop
The domestic-track entity, EIN and bank account TikTok Shop's cross-border track does not give you.
US LLC for content creators
The privacy, banking and liability separation an individual creator account does not have.
Form the company
LLC or C-Corp in any of the 50 states, with the EIN and registered agent included.
How this works. NameMarshal is not a law firm or an accountancy practice, and nothing on this page is legal or tax advice. Formation, EIN and registered agent are delivered through NameMarshal's formation network. Foreign-owned US LLCs generally have to file Form 5472 with a pro-forma Form 1120 every year, even with no income, and the penalty for missing it is steep. Ask us and we will point you at someone licensed to handle it.