Alternatives to Paddle
Merchant of Record billing for SaaS.
- What is Paddle?
- Paddle is a payments and subscription billing platform that acts as merchant of record for software companies.
- What does it do?
- Paddle sells your product as the seller of record, so it collects the payment and handles sales tax and VAT registration and remittance. It also runs subscriptions, checkout, invoicing, fraud screening and failed-payment recovery.
- Who is it for?
- SaaS and digital product companies selling internationally that do not want to manage tax compliance. Less suited to physical goods sellers or teams that want direct control over the payment stack.
- What are the alternatives to Paddle?
- Lemon Squeezy and Polar are lighter merchant-of-record options aimed at solo developers, Creem targets small SaaS with a simpler setup, and FastSpring covers a similar enterprise-leaning scope.
Pricing
5% + 50¢ as Merchant of Record
Paid
About
Founded 2012
London, UK
Founders
The people behind Paddle.
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