Paddle

Revenue delivery platform for SaaS and app businesses, acting as Merchant of Record to handle payments, subscriptions, sales tax, VAT, and compliance end-to-end. Lets product teams focus on growth while offloading billing operations, tax filing, fraud liability, and payment provider relationships.

Trusted by over 6,000 software businesses with 122 million transactions processed. Differentiates from Stripe and similar payment processors by operating as Merchant of Record: Paddle charges customers, remits taxes across 100+ jurisdictions, takes on fraud liability, and handles billing-related support. Integrates ProfitWell Metrics for free revenue analytics and Retain for automatic failed payment recovery.

Key features:

• Complete billing stack: checkout, subscriptions, proration, customer portal, localized pricing
• Merchant of Record model: tax calculation, filing, and remittance across 200+ markets and 30 currencies
• Hand-crafted SDKs for Node, Python, Go, PHP, and Paddle.js for browser and mobile integration
• Webhooks for customer, subscription, and invoice lifecycle events
• Fraud protection, 3D-Secure, card and digital wallet support, intelligent payment routing

Suitable for B2B and B2C SaaS, desktop and mobile apps selling subscriptions or one-time licenses. Developers integrate via a unified API and overlay checkout, with add-ons for Next.js starter kits, mobile web payments, and sandbox testing. Fits teams that want to avoid managing multiple merchant accounts, tax compliance, and dunning workflows themselves.