

They’re useless by themselves, you need to connect them to a payment gateway.Ī Paddle employee was asked how they compare with Chargebee, here is their response: They resell your product and handle everything including taxes and invoices and you get one wire transfer once a month with your earnings, minus their cut.įor a more detailed explanation see What is a merchant of record.Ĭhargebee and Chargify are something else altogether - they just manage your subscription and billing logic. Paddle and FastSpring are Merchants of Record. They let you get money from credit cards and leave the rest to you, including retries, charge backs, VAT and invoices. Stripe and Braintree are Payment Gateways. It turns out that you can’t compare Paddle with Stripe, they’re in different categories. I did my grueling research and I wrote it down here. How do you deal with all of these different countries and their VAT rules? Other than that, what’s the point of Paddle if it’s more expensive than Stripe? Why can’t I sign up for Stripe in my country? There seemed to be so many, and their landing pages were of no help - they were more or less interchangable.

When I was launching my first SaaS product one of the things that confused me the most were subscription payment services. Which Subscription Payment Service Should A Bootstrapping SaaS Choose?
