Caribbean Shopify Payments

CIBC Caribbean Shopify Payment Gateway Integration

Shopify Payments isn't available across most of the Caribbean, so we connect your CIBC Caribbean merchant account to your Shopify checkout — built via the PowerTranz (First Atlantic Commerce) gateway — so you accept Visa and Mastercard payments online in Barbados, The Bahamas and the Cayman Islands, settling into your own CIBC account.

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One of 10+ payment gateways we connect to Shopify for Caribbean merchants.

  • Visa & Mastercard
  • Barbados, Bahamas & Cayman
  • CIBC Caribbean
  • PowerTranz (FAC)
A Caribbean shop owner accepting an online card payment on her Shopify store — Paperless Blueprint CIBC Caribbean payment gateway integration

Card payments on your Shopify store

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • 3-D Secure
  • PowerTranz (First Atlantic Commerce)
  • Your own CIBC account
3
Caribbean markets we connect CIBC Caribbean on Shopify in — Barbados, The Bahamas & the Cayman Islands
10+
payment gateways we connect to Shopify
FAC/PowerTranz
The gateway we build the CIBC Caribbean integration on
Straight Answer

What is CIBC Caribbean?

CIBC Caribbean — until 2024 branded CIBC FirstCaribbean — is a Caribbean bank, majority-owned by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), one of Canada's largest banks. It traces back to FirstCaribbean International Bank, founded in 2002. CIBC Caribbean offers merchant e-commerce services to business clients in Barbados, The Bahamas and the Cayman Islands. When we build a CIBC Caribbean integration, we connect it through the PowerTranz (First Atlantic Commerce) gateway. Paperless Blueprint wires it into your Shopify checkout and settles card takings into your own CIBC account — one of more than ten gateways we integrate.

Last updated: 12 July 2026

The Caribbean Payments Problem

Why Caribbean Shopify Stores Can't Take Cards Out of the Box

The Wall You're Hitting

  • Shopify Payments doesn't work in most of the Caribbean, so your Shopify store can't take cards out of the box.
  • You bank with CIBC Caribbean and want card takings landing in your own CIBC account — not a foreign wallet you have to withdraw from.
  • CIBC issues merchant credentials and applies its own eligibility requirements, but wiring them into Shopify isn't a one-click app install.
  • You want customers paying by card on a checkout that looks and feels trusted, wherever in Barbados, The Bahamas or the Cayman Islands your store sells.

How We Fix It With CIBC Caribbean

  • We connect your CIBC Caribbean merchant account to your Shopify checkout, building the integration via the PowerTranz (First Atlantic Commerce) gateway, so it accepts card payments online.
  • Card takings settle into your own CIBC Caribbean business account — your bank, your account.
  • We confirm your account type and CIBC's merchant eligibility requirements up front, then handle the gateway credentials and a real live-payment test end to end.
  • Your checkout stays branded, supports 3-D Secure and PCI-DSS, so customers pay with confidence in any of the 3 markets we connect CIBC Caribbean in.
The Process

How We Add CIBC Caribbean to Your Shopify Store

  1. Scope your CIBC Caribbean setup

    Tell us you bank with (or want) CIBC Caribbean; we confirm your business account and how it fits your Shopify store, across Barbados, The Bahamas or the Cayman Islands.

  2. Confirm eligibility & credentials

    CIBC applies its own merchant eligibility requirements before issuing gateway credentials — we help confirm you're a fit, then build and test the connection via the PowerTranz (First Atlantic Commerce) gateway.

  3. Test a live payment

    We run a real card payment through checkout before go-live, so you see it work before your customers do.

  4. Go live & get paid

    Once your CIBC merchant account and gateway credentials are approved, your store starts taking cards, with takings settling into your own CIBC account.

What's Included

What's Included in Your CIBC Caribbean Shopify Build

Visa & Mastercard

credit and debit card payments accepted at your Shopify checkout

PowerTranz (First Atlantic Commerce)

the gateway we build the CIBC Caribbean integration on

3-D Secure checkout

an authenticated, PCI-DSS-compliant payment flow

Settlement to your own account

takings settle into your own CIBC Caribbean business account

Available across three Caribbean markets

Barbados, The Bahamas and the Cayman Islands

Live payment test

a real transaction verified before your store goes live

Which CIBC?

Is CIBC Caribbean the same as CIBC in Canada?

Related, but not the same business. CIBC Caribbean is a Caribbean bank majority-owned by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) — one of Canada's largest banks — but it operates as its own regulated Caribbean business, separate from CIBC's Canadian retail and consumer banking. Until 2024 it was branded CIBC FirstCaribbean; if your paperwork or merchant statements still say CIBC FirstCaribbean, it's the same bank under its current name. This page is specifically about CIBC Caribbean's e-commerce merchant services for business clients in Barbados, The Bahamas and the Cayman Islands — not CIBC's Canadian retail banking.

CIBC Caribbean integrations we build run on the same PowerTranz / First Atlantic Commerce gateway as several Caribbean banks — see the PowerTranz (First Atlantic Commerce) Shopify gateway, the Republic Bank Shopify payment gateway, the First Citizens Shopify payment gateway and the Scotiabank Shopify payment gateway. CIBC Caribbean is also a bank partner of Fygaro, a Caribbean payments platform we also connect to Shopify. Comparing options? See the full Shopify payment gateway hub.

CIBC, CIBC Caribbean, PowerTranz, First Atlantic Commerce, Republic Bank, First Citizens, Scotiabank and Fygaro are trademarks of their respective owners. Paperless Blueprint is an independent Shopify integrator and is not affiliated with, authorised by, endorsed by, or certified by CIBC, CIBC Caribbean, PowerTranz, First Atlantic Commerce, Republic Bank, First Citizens, Scotiabank, or Fygaro.

CIBC Caribbean Shopify Gateway FAQs

CIBC Caribbean — until 2024 branded CIBC FirstCaribbean — is a Caribbean bank majority-owned by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). It offers merchant e-commerce services to business clients in Barbados, The Bahamas and the Cayman Islands. It is a bank, not a payment vendor.

Related, but not the same business. CIBC Caribbean is majority-owned by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, but it operates as its own regulated Caribbean business, separate from CIBC's Canadian retail and consumer banking. This page is about CIBC Caribbean's e-commerce merchant services only.

Not out of the box — CIBC Caribbean has no native Shopify app. We build and test the connection between your CIBC merchant account and your Shopify checkout, then run a real live payment before you go live.

When we build a CIBC Caribbean integration, we connect it through the PowerTranz (First Atlantic Commerce) gateway. CIBC hasn't published which processor powers its own online payments, so this is a fact about how we build the integration, based on our own delivery experience.

Barbados, The Bahamas and the Cayman Islands — the three markets we've verified for CIBC Caribbean's online card acceptance. If you have a CIBC merchant account in one of these, we can connect it to Shopify. These are the only markets we currently offer this CIBC integration in.

A customer pays at your Shopify checkout, the card is authorised through PowerTranz (First Atlantic Commerce), and the funds settle into your own CIBC Caribbean account — in Barbadian, Bahamian or Cayman Islands dollars, depending on where your account is held.

A CIBC Caribbean business account, and you'll need to meet CIBC's own merchant eligibility requirements. We can help confirm whether you're a fit before you apply.

Yes — CIBC Caribbean is also a bank partner of Fygaro, an all-in-one Caribbean payments platform. If Fygaro's a better fit than a direct gateway integration for your store, we connect that to Shopify too.

No. Paperless Blueprint is an independent Shopify integrator. We are not a bank, and we are not partnered with, authorised by, endorsed by, or certified by CIBC or CIBC Caribbean. We connect the CIBC merchant account and gateway credentials that you hold into your Shopify store.
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Ready to take card payments on your Shopify store?

Book a free call and we'll connect your CIBC Caribbean merchant account to your Shopify checkout and live-test it before you go live.

  • A free, no-obligation scoping call
  • We connect your CIBC Caribbean merchant account to your Shopify store via PowerTranz (First Atlantic Commerce)
  • Card takings settle into your own CIBC Caribbean account

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