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The problem is taxes. You need to pay VAT on EU sales ("MOSS VAT"), sales taxes in many countries... even if you are not resident of those countries. Even as an
by itamarst 9y ago
The problem is taxes. You need to pay VAT on EU sales ("MOSS VAT"), sales taxes in many countries... even if you are not resident of those countries. Even as an American if I sell to someone in EU I need to collect VAT.
Options:
1. Don't pay taxes. I am not comfortable with this.
2. Pay taxes yourself. I do not want to figure this out.
3. Have service pay taxes for you. This is what I chose.
AFAICT only two companies actually cover all tax jurisdictions, FastSpring and Paddle. Gumroad only does some.
With Paddle it's trivial for someone to download content without paying, and when I complained they said "oh yeah we should write some docs warning about that".
So if you care about taxes there's just FastSpring. FastSpring is pretty decent, so I'm OK with that.
- vram22 9y ago>all tax jurisdictions What do you mean by jurisdictions here? different countries?
- ezekg 9y agoYou could potentially get around the distribution issue using a licensing service like Keygen (https://keygen.sh/distribution https://keygen.sh/distribution) (disclaimer: I’m the founder). You could use it alongside a payment provider like Paddle or FastSpring to ensure only licensed users are allowed to download your product.
- itamarst 9y agoOr I could just use FastSpring :)
- ezekg 9y agoYou’re right, FastSpring was probably a bad example seeing as they offer their own licensed distribution system (albeit a little basic functionality-wise for software), but payment providers like Stripe, PayPal and Paddle do not (well, Paddle kind of does but like you said—-not really, and you have to host your own files).
- seanwilson 9y ago> AFAICT only two companies actually cover all tax jurisdictions, FastSpring and Paddle. Gumroad only does some. Can you elaborate more on what Gumroad are missing out on?