
Orbitkey accelerates global expansion to over 1,000 stores with Airwallex
Discover how Orbitkey won global wholesalers with localized, easier payments with Airwallex's Global Accounts.

~70%
savings on international transfer fees from CAD and USD payments
75%
faster wholesaler payments, reducing wait time from 4 days to 1
6+ hours
saved from chasing up missing payments

Orbitkey is a Melbourne based, lifestyle retail brand making products to help organize life.
Industry
Retail
Location
Global
Company size
20–50 employees
Orbitkey is a design-driven accessories brand committed to helping people organize their everyday essentials. As the business grew internationally, managing payments from global customers, wholesalers, and suppliers became increasingly complex and costly. Orbitkey needed a more efficient way to handle international transactions, reduce fees, and streamline financial administration.

The challenge
Orbitkey’s existing payments infrastructure struggled to accommodate international transactions efficiently. Customers and wholesalers often paid in foreign currencies, which then had to be converted to Australian dollars (AUD), incurring high FX costs and slow transfer times. Also, wholesalers faced the burden of paying directly into an Australian account in AUD, which prevented some from working with Orbitkey due to the additional fees involved.
At the same time, Orbitkey was paying international suppliers and vendors in USD from an Australian-based foreign currency account, leading to expensive international transfer fees on each transaction. Managing multiple financial service providers also introduced operational inefficiencies, causing delays, administrative errors, and increased manual workload for the finance team.
The solution
By integrating Airwallex’s Global Accounts, Orbitkey gained a seamless and cost-effective solution for managing global payments. With a dedicated EUR Global Account, customers and wholesalers can now make payments in their local currency, avoiding unnecessary FX fees. This reduced costs and sped up wholesale payments, cutting transfer times from four days to just one – a 75% improvement.

Rex Kuo
Co-Founder at Orbitkey
“The most important part for business expanding internationally comes down to localisation. People don’t want to buy out of an Australian warehouse, they want to be buying from a local warehouse. They don’t want to be paying to an unfamiliar bank account with high fees, they want to be paying like a local”
For supplier and vendor payments, Orbitkey used Airwallex to pay international partners directly from its foreign currency funds, eliminating excessive international transfer fees and reducing costs by up to 70%.
On top of that, Airwallex’s all-in-one platform replaced multiple financial service providers, significantly reducing administrative workload. Previously, Orbitkey relied on a system that required customers to manually include reference numbers for payments, leading to frequent errors and missing funds. With Airwallex, all Global Accounts and transactions can be managed from a single platform, minimizing manual mistakes, eliminating inefficiencies, and saving the finance team over six hours weekly.
The results
Orbitkey now operates with a simplified and scalable financial infrastructure that supports its global growth. The ability to accept payments in local currencies has strengthened relationships with international customers and wholesalers while reducing FX fees and transfer costs and improving profit margins. Faster payment processing and reduced administrative work have enabled the business to operate more efficiently, ensuring smoother transactions with suppliers and an overall enhanced customer experience.
Hai Trang
Virtual CFO at Orbitkey
“Like many high growth businesses, you’re dealing with multiple currencies. Now, with Airwallex we’re using the one platform to make multiple currency payments.”
With Airwallex, Orbitkey has removed financial barriers to international expansion, allowing the brand to focus on what it does best – creating beautifully designed products that enhance everyday life.
Watch more about Obitkey's story here.
What users say about Airwallex

"Airwallex has been a game changer for all our banking needs. As a fast-growing startup, we need a scalable yet cost-efficient batch payment solution to pay our employees and vendors both inside and outside Hong Kong. Airwallex helps us save money on every bank transfer with their near-zero transaction fee and market-beating FX rates. We also use Airwallex’s multi-currency Visa cards for business travel expenses and SaaS subscriptions to avoid hidden bank fees that would otherwise have been difficult to spot. Would highly recommend other startups to get started with Airwallex!"

Henson Tsai
Founder, SleekFlow

"Airwallex has been great for our team - it makes payments and transfers so much easier, and has saved us significant amounts of time compared to what we were doing before with HSBC. Airwallex's platform is easy to use and very intuitive. Airwallex virtual card has solved most of our painpoints with sharing corporate card numbers and credit card limits. The best part is being able to save money on all our monthly bank transfers, and we've already saved thousands of dollars by using Airwallex. Airwallex's support has also been highly responsive to troubleshoot any issues in a timely manner."
Sarah Chang
Co-founder & COO, Forkast.News

"Airwallex est flexible et compétitif pour nos transactions internationales. Nous avons utilisé Airwallex pour recevoir notre dernière levée de fonds internationale et aussi payer nos fournisseurs internationaux ; nous économisons au moins 5% par dollar transféré par rapport aux grandes banques."

George van Dyck
Directeur Financier, Zoomo

"Airwallex a été une révolution pour nous, je ne peux pas vous les recommander davantage. Les services de change sont super efficaces et très compétitifs. Le service client n'est pas en or plaqué, il est en or massif. C'est l'un des meilleurs services d'e-commerce pour les commerçants que nous ayons rencontrés depuis l'arrivée de PayPal il y a 20 ans."

Murray Kester
PDG, Cosmetics Now – eCommerce

"La centralisation de tous nos abonnements SaaS dans le monde en un seul endroit a simplifié nos processus financiers et a amélioré le suivi et le contrôle des dépenses. C'est encore mieux de savoir qu'Airwallex ne nous facture aucun frais de transaction à l’international."

Warren Durling
Directeur des Opérations (COO), Dovetail – Agence Digitale

"Airwallex est l’outil central de toutes nos opérations bancaires, le tout dans une interface intuitive. Sans Airwallex, nous n'aurions pas pu développer notre entreprise aussi rapidement."

Andrew Ford and Rosa-Clare Willis
Cofondateurs, Crockd – eCommerce

“Airwallex saves us $40,000 annually in collections costs from our sales on Amazon, which is the majority of our sales in the U.S. market. It also allows us to ‘repurpose’ our international currencies. For example, if we sell in Europe we can pay European suppliers in Euros as well. There’s no need to ‘double convert."

Edward Agaba
Controller, Dalstrong