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This so much, Stripes innovation was making it so much easter to integrate a payment api. Paddles innovation is making international tax/vat a complete none iss

This so much, Stripes innovation was making it so much easter to integrate a payment api. Paddles innovation is making international tax/vat a complete none issue to new businesses. They are doing everything small business want to make online digital goods sales painless from an admin point of view.

tut-urut-utut 4y ago
As someone currently looking exactly at this kind of provider, I’m curious about other Paddle competitors whose price model is only revenue based, without a fixed monthly fee. Gumroad is another merchant of records, but developer documentation is worse, fees are higher and it seems to support only USD pricing. Other alternatives requires a somewhat hefty monthly fee, which is a non starter for my use case.
- gondo 4y ago
  I am not sure if you meant to imply the opposite, but Paddle's price model IS only revenue based.
  - tut-urut-utut 4y ago
    Yes, Paddle is revenue-based. I was just wondering about the alternatives. Something about Paddle that I can't define is putting me off, whether it is website, wording, attitude, "contact me for the quote" and such things makes it feel old school and bureaucratic. I learned over time to listen to my gut feeling, so I'm not gonna use it. Gumroad looks much more relaxed, although more expensive and lacks many features. Here in this thread, someone mentioned https://www.getrevin.com https://www.getrevin.com, which lets you use Stripe and provides a tax shield merchant of record for 1% on top of Stripe fees, which makes it interesting. I also found out https://www.lemonsqueezy.com https://www.lemonsqueezy.com which is priced similarly to Gumroad, but it lacks documentation to be able to compare it.
franciscop 4y ago
Out of curiosity, how about https://stripe.com/tax https://stripe.com/tax? Do they compare similarly? I was considering using Stripe ~1 year ago and my only stopper was exactly international taxes, but it seems like they've integrated tax collection since then? Disclaimer: I'm joining Stripe in a month :)

tut-urut-utut 4y ago

As someone currently looking exactly at this kind of provider, I’m curious about other Paddle competitors whose price model is only revenue based, without a fixed monthly fee. Gumroad is another merchant of records, but developer documentation is worse, fees are higher and it seems to support only USD pricing. Other alternatives requires a somewhat hefty monthly fee, which is a non starter for my use case.

gondo 4y ago
I am not sure if you meant to imply the opposite, but Paddle's price model IS only revenue based.
- tut-urut-utut 4y ago
  Yes, Paddle is revenue-based. I was just wondering about the alternatives. Something about Paddle that I can't define is putting me off, whether it is website, wording, attitude, "contact me for the quote" and such things makes it feel old school and bureaucratic. I learned over time to listen to my gut feeling, so I'm not gonna use it. Gumroad looks much more relaxed, although more expensive and lacks many features. Here in this thread, someone mentioned https://www.getrevin.com https://www.getrevin.com, which lets you use Stripe and provides a tax shield merchant of record for 1% on top of Stripe fees, which makes it interesting. I also found out https://www.lemonsqueezy.com https://www.lemonsqueezy.com which is priced similarly to Gumroad, but it lacks documentation to be able to compare it.

franciscop 4y ago

Out of curiosity, how about https://stripe.com/tax https://stripe.com/tax? Do they compare similarly? I was considering using Stripe ~1 year ago and my only stopper was exactly international taxes, but it seems like they've integrated tax collection since then? Disclaimer: I'm joining Stripe in a month :)