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- Paddle is a Merchant of Record platform for SaaS, mobile apps, and other digital products: it acts as the seller of record, handling payments, subscriptions, localized checkout, sales tax/VAT calculation and remittance, fraud protection, chargebacks, refunds, and buyer billing support on the seller's behalf.
More detail
- It also bundles subscription analytics and failed-payment recovery tools.
- Best for
- B2B and B2C SaaS, mobile app, and digital product businesses that want to sell globally while offloading payment operations, sales tax/VAT compliance, fraud, chargebacks, and buyer billing support to a merchant of record.
- Pricing
- Pay-as-you-go rate is 5% + 50¢ per Checkout transaction with no monthly or migration fees per Paddle's pricing page.
More detail
- Custom pricing is available for high-volume or low-value transactions and complex models.
- Paddle markets the rate as "no hidden costs," but FX spreads on multi-currency settlement, pa
- Main limitation
- Businesses that only sell one-time purchases (ProfitWell Metrics and Retain require a subscription business), very low order values where the 5% + 50¢ per-transaction rate is heavy, or sellers who want to remain their own merchant of record and keep tax liability, refunds, and chargebacks in-house.
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About
- Paddle is a Merchant of Record platform for SaaS, mobile apps, and other digital products: it acts as the seller of record, handling payments, subscriptions, localized checkout, sales tax/VAT calculation and remittance, fraud protection, chargebacks, refunds, and buyer billing support on the seller's behalf.
- It also bundles subscription analytics and failed-payment recovery tools.
What it helps with
- Global sales tax and VAT calculation, filing, and remittance across many jurisdictions
- International payment complexity across currencies and local payment methods
- Involuntary churn from failed payments and cancellations
- Fraud screening, chargeback handling, and buyer disputes
- Operational overhead of stitching together billing, tax, fraud, and billing support vendors
- Revenue and management reporting across subscriptions
- Selling digital products outside app store channels
- Migrating existing subscribers to a new billing stack without disruption
Capabilities
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| Offering | Available | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Merchant of Record model | Yes | Paddle becomes the seller of record, taking on tax liability, refunds, and chargebacks per Paddle 101. |
| Checkout | Yes | Embeddable branded checkout flows for web or app. |
| Subscriptions | Yes | Flexible multi-product, multi-seat, add-on subscriptions in Paddle Billing. |
| Global tax and compliance | Yes | Automatic sales tax/VAT calculation, filing, and remittance. |
| Fraud protection and chargebacks | Yes | Card attack prevention, fraud screening, and bad-faith chargeback handling. |
| Invoicing | Yes | Recurring, automated B2B invoicing internationally. |
| ProfitWell Metrics | Yes | Free subscription analytics, but requires a subscription business; not for one-time-only purchases. |
| Retain | Yes | Dunning and churn-prevention tooling; requires a subscription business. |
| Migration service | Yes | Paddle states customers can move to Paddle in 12 days or less with dedicated support. |
| Disclosed FX spread and payout terms | Unknown | FX spreads, payout fees/timing, minimum balances, and reserves are not disclosed in the supplied sources. |
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