Do you know any payment gateways where having a legal company is not required in order to activate the account? Unfortunately, PayPal Pro is not available in my country. For example: 2Checkout, Authorize.net, Checkout.com etc. all require me to have a legal business to activate the account and be able to accept payments on my shopify store. I am just starting out, this is my first attempt at e-commerce and I don't think I am ready to have a legal business before I test the market and the niche.
Actually it isn't. I found out that Stripe allows you to accept credit cards as an individual, it doesn't requires you to have a legal business. Thank you for the help anyway.
you need legal business for payment gateway. Paypal also need your document once you have some transaction.
If you're looking for something like PayPal, you might need to search for "Peer-To-Peer" payment systems. A few comes to mind like Google Wallet, Payoneer, Payza, Propay. I've seen some companies use Venmo too in sending payments. You might want to check those out.
I don't really know payment gateways where having a legal company is not required in order to activate the account, but recently I have found one interesting article about "PAYMENT GATEWAY COMPARISON: GUIDE TO ECOMMERCE PAYMENTS". Maybe you will find something useful for you there. https://theappsolutions.com/blog/development/ecommerce-payment-gateway-comparison/