Sell on TrekGuider Through Your Company

A lot of travel creators run their work through a company. Maybe you set up an LLC for your YouTube channel, a Ltd for your photo business or a GmbH for your guiding. Until now, TrekGuider only let you sell as yourself. Now you can choose: sell as an individual or through your company, in the US or anywhere else in the world.

Who can sell on TrekGuider now

• You, as an individual, in the US or in another country. Freelancers and sole proprietors without a registered company sell this way too.
• Your US company: a corporation, an LLC with one or more owners, or a partnership.
• Your company outside the US: a Ltd, GmbH, SARL or a similar company.

TrekGuider doesn't limit sellers by country, so creators from almost anywhere can join. If you have a registered company, even a one-person one, you can sell through it.

Why sell through your company

• Your earnings go straight to the company's bank account.
• The company signs its own tax form, so your sales are reported for the company, not for you personally.
• Business income and personal money stay apart, which makes bookkeeping easier.

Your creator page, products, followers and buyers stay exactly the same. Buyers keep finding you the same way they always have.

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, that's its EIN, the 9-digit number from the IRS. Elsewhere, use the company's registration or tax number.
• 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.

How to set it up

It all happens in Account Verification, the same place where every seller signs up.

1. Complete the Social profiles step.
2. Under You sell as, choose My company.
3. Enter the company's country, legal name and tax number. For a US company, also pick its type.
4. Add your own details as the company representative, including your job title.
5. Add everyone who owns 25% or more of the company. Outside the US, add the directors too.
6. Enter the company address. If you live somewhere else, add your home address as well.
7. Accept the agreements and add the company's bank account.

After you submit, we check the company and the people you listed. If anything else is needed, like a document, you'll see the request in Account Verification. If you live in a different country from your company, that's fine. We'll ask later how to confirm who you are.

Already selling as yourself?

You can move your shop to your company without starting over. First withdraw your available balance. Then open Account Settings, find Payout Methods and choose Switch to a company. Confirm it with your usual security code and complete verification for the company.

Your page, products, buyers and subscribers stay with you. Sales before the switch stay on your personal record, and sales after it belong to the company.

Tax forms, without the guesswork

The tax form now starts with two simple questions: are you, or your company, based in the US for tax purposes, and who receives the earnings? Your answers pick the right form for you:

• W-9 for US citizens and residents and for US companies.
• W-8BEN for individuals outside the US.
• W-8BEN-E for companies outside the US. We made a short version that asks only what a seller needs to fill in.

Some answers are filled in for you from your verification. When your name and tax number match what you gave us, the form is usually approved on its own, with no waiting for a person to review it. If something doesn't match, we tell you what to check.

Yearly US tax forms, delivered online

If you sell from the US, you get a Form 1099-K only for a year when your sales top $20,000 and 200 payments. Some states use lower limits. When a form is ready, we email you, and it appears in Documents by January 31. You agree to get it online when you send your W-9, so there's no paper to wait for.

If you sell from outside the US, you don't get US tax forms at all. Your W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E is all we need from you.

And whichever way you sell, TrekGuider never holds back tax from your earnings.

Get started

Open Account Verification and choose My company under You sell as. For the full checklist, see Sell through your company. To see which form fits you, read Find out which tax information your account needs.