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Cornerrr in Italy
An ecommerce website for Italy, written in Italian
Describe your business in Italian and Cornerrr writes your negozio online in Italian: products, pages, a request form and a Stripe checkout in euros. Below: how Italians pay online and the Italian rules a small shop should know.
- Free to build and preview
- Payments by Stripe
- No transaction fees from Cornerrr
Selling online in Italy
- Currency
- euro (EUR)
- Standard VAT rate
- 22%
- Popular ways to pay
- Credit and debit cards, Satispay, Scalapay
- Web address
- Free yourname.cornerrr.com, or your own .it
- Language
- Italian
- Payments
- Your own Stripe account
Payments
How people in Italy pay online.
Italians pay online with cards, including prepaid cards such as PostePay, a common way to shop online. PayPal is one of the most trusted options in Italy, but it isn’t available through Cornerrr’s checkout today, so offer Satispay, the Italian payment app, alongside cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay. Scalapay and Klarna let customers pay in three or four installments. Some buyers still ask for cash on delivery (contrassegno), which an online checkout doesn’t offer.
Before you start
Selling online in Italy: what to know.
Partita IVA on the home page
Italian law asks businesses to show their partita IVA (VAT number) on the home page of their website. Put it in the footer with your business name and address, so it appears on every page.
IVA, or the regime forfettario
Standard IVA is 22%, with reduced rates of 10%, 5% and 4%. Under the regime forfettario, for revenue up to €85,000 a year and other conditions, you don’t charge IVA on your sales. Your commercialista can tell you whether it fits.
Invoices and records
Italy uses mandatory electronic invoicing through the SdI (Sistema di Interscambio), and online sales to consumers have their own rules for invoices and records of takings. Ask your commercialista how to handle website orders before you open.
Diritto di recesso
Under the Codice del Consumo, consumers have 14 days from delivery to withdraw, and you refund within 14 days. Put the instructions and model form in your terms. From 19 June 2026, EU rules also ask for an online withdrawal function; Cornerrr adds one to your store’s footer (“Recedere dal contratto qui” on a store in Italian) and emails the customer an acknowledgement of receipt; mention it in your terms.
Information in Italian
The Codice del Consumo asks for the information you give consumers, such as product details, prices and terms, to be in Italian. Describe your shop in Italian and explain any English product names.
Privacy and the Garante
GDPR applies, overseen by the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali. Publish an informativa sulla privacy that names the services you use, such as Stripe, and ask only for what you need in forms.
General information, current as of October 2026, not legal or tax advice. Rules and rates change, so check them with an accountant or adviser, or the official sources, before you rely on them.
Cornerrr
Built for businesses in Italy
Prices in euros
Set your store’s currency to EUR and your products, shipping rates and checkout use it. Cornerrr works with about 140 currencies, one per web address.
VAT at checkout
Turn on Stripe Tax in your Stripe account and Cornerrr asks it to work out VAT for each order at checkout, on any paid plan. You can collect business customers’ VAT numbers too.
Your words in Italian
Describe your business in Italian and Cornerrr writes your pages in Italian. Stripe Checkout shows in Italian too. A few built-in cart and account labels are still in English today.
Local ways to pay
Checkout is Stripe’s own, so the local payment methods you turn on in Stripe show up for the customers who can use them, next to cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Local tips
Make it feel local
Ship with Poste Italiane or a courier
Poste Italiane, BRT, GLS and SDA carry most small parcels. Say whether you deliver to Sicily, Sardinia and the smaller islands, which often take longer and cost more, and add the tracking number to each order.
Explain that payment happens online
If customers ask for contrassegno, say on your FAQ page that orders are paid online at checkout, and point to Satispay and cards as familiar ways to pay.
Be exact about “Made in Italy”
Italian law takes misleading origin claims seriously. Use “Made in Italy” only when it’s true, and say what is made where, such as “sewn in our Bologna workshop from Italian leather”.
Plan around the saldi
Each region sets the start dates of the saldi, usually early January and early July. Plan your discount codes around them, and around Christmas and Easter, and put your order cut-off dates on the home page.
How it works
From a few words to your website, live.
Step 1: Describe your business
A sentence or two is enough: what you do, who it’s for and how people buy from you.
Step 2: We build it while you watch
Cornerrr writes your pages, adds your products or services, and picks the colours, fonts and look. It takes about a minute.
Step 3: Connect payments
Link a Stripe account, or create one in a few minutes. Your customers pay you directly.
Step 4: You’re live
Publish on your free Cornerrr web address, or use your own. Change anything later by asking.
Pricing
Free to build. Simple plans to go live.
Build and preview for free, no card needed. Every paid plan starts with a 14-day free trial, and Cornerrr adds no transaction fees. Plan prices are in US dollars; your customers pay you in EUR.
Starter
Go live and start selling.
$19a month
Most popular
Growth
For growing businesses with subscriptions and deliveries.
$49a month
Pro
For several stores and bigger catalogues.
$99a month
Questions
Good to know
Can my website be in Italian?
Yes. Describe your business in Italian and Cornerrr writes the website’s words in Italian, and Stripe’s checkout page is shown in Italian. A few built-in labels on the cart and account pages are still in English today; you can rename the add-to-cart and checkout buttons.
Can customers pay with Satispay?
Yes, for one-time orders. Turn on Satispay in your Stripe Dashboard and it appears at checkout for euro payments; customers finish the payment with their Satispay account.
Do I need a partita IVA to sell online?
If you sell regularly, yes: selling online is a business activity that needs a partita IVA and, as a rule, registration with the Registro delle imprese and a notice (SCIA) to your comune. Occasional sales of your own used things are different. This is general information; check with your commercialista.
Why can’t I offer PayPal?
Stripe doesn’t offer PayPal to platforms like Cornerrr, so it isn’t available at checkout today. Satispay, cards with Apple Pay and Google Pay, and Scalapay or Klarna installments give Italian buyers familiar choices.
Do I need any technical skills?
No. You describe your business in your own words and Cornerrr builds the website. Afterwards you change things by clicking, or by asking the assistant in plain words.
How much does it cost?
Building and previewing your website is free, with no card needed. To go live and take payments, choose a plan from $19 a month. Every paid plan starts with a 14-day free trial; a card is needed to start it.
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