Sell through your company

You can sell on TrekGuider as yourself or through a company you own or run. When you sell through a company, the company receives your earnings and signs its own tax form. Your creator page, products, and buyers stay the same either way.

If you work for yourself without a registered company, for example as a sole proprietor or freelancer, choose Myself, as an individual.

What to have ready

• The company's legal name, exactly as on its registration papers.
• The country where the company is registered.
• The company's tax number. For a US company this is its EIN, the 9-digit number from the IRS. Elsewhere, use the company's registration or tax number.
• For a US company, its type: corporation, LLC with one owner, LLC with more than one owner, or partnership.
• The company's address and a bank account in the company's name.
• Your own name, date of birth, phone number, home address, and job title.
• The name, email, date of birth, and share of everyone else who owns 25% or more of the company. Outside the US, also every director.

Set it up during verification

1. Open Account Verification and complete Social profiles.
2. On the next step, choose My company under You sell as.
3. Enter the company's country, legal name, type, and tax number.
4. Under You, as the company representative, enter your own details and job title. Tick I own 25% or more of the company if that is true. Outside the US, also tick I'm a director of the company if you are one.
5. Add each other owner of 25% or more with Add an owner (outside the US, Add a person, where you can also mark directors). Enter their details and select Save. Use Edit to correct a person or the cross to remove them.
6. Tick the box confirming that the list is complete, then select Continue.
7. Enter the company address. If you live somewhere else, untick My home address is the same as the company address and enter your home address.
8. Enter the last 4 digits of your SSN for a US company, or your ID number elsewhere. If you live in a different country from the company, this field isn't shown, and you'll be asked later how to confirm who you are.
9. Accept the agreements and add the company's bank account.

After you submit, the company and the people you listed are checked. If anything else is needed, such as a document, you'll see a request in Account Verification.

Already selling as yourself?

Your current payout setup can't be turned into a company one. Open Account Settings, find Payout Methods, and select Switch to a company. First withdraw your available balance; the switch isn't possible while money is available or a withdrawal is in progress. Then complete verification for the company as described above.

Sales before the switch stay on your personal tax record, and sales after it belong to the company.

The company's tax form

When a tax form is needed, the company signs its own: a W-9 for a US company or a W-8BEN-E for a company outside the US. See Complete a W-9 as a US seller or company and Complete a W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E outside the US.