What documents do I need to start card payments with orderbird PRO and Worldline?

Written by Jens B.

Last published at: June 12th, 2024

To get started quickly with card payment with orderbird PRO, you can organize the following documents in advance and have them ready. Just look for the correct company type …


For sole proprietorship/solo traders

For the registration, we need the following personal details of the owner:

  • Name
  • current residential address
  • date of birth
  • Nationality

Additionally, the following data of the owner:

  • Tax ID
  • ID card

What you will do at the end:

  • Perform IDent
  • make the final signature

GbR

For the registration, we need the following data of all partners

  • name
  • current residential address
  • date of birth
  • nationality
  • percentage share

Additionally, the following data of the shareholders:

  • Tax ID of the company
  • Shareholders' agreement, if available
  • IBAN
  • Details of the authorized signatories (sole or joint)

Finally, all authorized signatories will have to:

  • Perform IDent
  • Provide signature

Limited liability company, UG, AG, OHG

Simple partnership (Einfache Gesellschaft)

For the registration of a simple partnership (with up to 3 beneficial owners/natural persons) we need the following information:

  • Details of the beneficial owners
    • Name
    • current residential address
    • date of birth
    • nationality 
    • Information on the percentage share of the company
  • Commercial register number
    Newly founded? Then send us alternatively an extract from the commercial register or a notarized certificate of incorporation
  • IBAN
  • Do you not have a beneficial owner with you? Then you have to name a representative, for example, the managing director.

What all authorized signatories will do in the end

  • perform IDent
  • provide the final signature(s)

Complex company

For the registration of so-called complex societies, you need

  • a complete organizational chart of the company. 
  • Information on all beneficial owners of the partnerships/ partner company.

Associations

For the registration, we need the following information of all the beneficial owners, that is with more than 25% voting or capital shares

  • Name
  • Current residential address
  • Date of birth
  • Nationality
  • Percentage share information

What all authorized signers will do in the end

  • perform IDent
  • provide the final signature(s)

Information about the association

  • Association register number, alternatively send your statutes to pay@orderbird.com
  • IBAN

Beneficial owners with precisely 25% voting or capital shares?

Should you only have beneficial owners with precisely 25% voting or capital shares in your association, you have to name a representative, e.g., the first chairman or treasurer.