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Merchant of Record for software

Sell globally. Grow without the complexity.

Paddle is the legal seller of your software. It registers, charges and remits sales tax and VAT in over 100 jurisdictions, takes on chargebacks and fraud, answers your buyers' billing questions, and pays you out. One fee: 5% + 50¢.

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Seller of recordPaddle.com Market Ltd
Buyer locationGermany
Pro plan, annual€45.00
VAT (DE) 19%handled€8.55
Total charged€53.55
Tax registered, charged and remitted by the seller of record.

Buyer is in

Standard rates, for illustration. Paddle works out the exact rate at checkout.

What changes

Paddle is the seller on the receipt. So the sales tax, the VAT, the chargebacks and the fraud are Paddle's to carry, not yours. You build the product; Paddle sells it, remits the tax, answers the billing questions and pays you out.

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A payment processor

Moves the money and leaves you as the seller: registering for VAT in Germany, sales tax in California, consumption tax in Japan, and filing in each one.

A Merchant of Record

Is the seller. It owes the tax, carries the fraud and chargeback risk, answers the buyer's billing questions, then pays you out.

How the model works

Three products, one platform

Billing, recovery and revenue insight, sold as one.

At scale

software businesses sell through Paddle
10,000+
in sales tax remitted on their behalf last year
$130M
jurisdictions where Paddle registers, charges and remits
100+

Figures as published on paddle.com.

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Customer outcomes

Built for growth. Proven at scale.

All customer outcomes
MacPaw
200% revenue increase and a 75% first-renewal rate.

One fee

5% + 50¢

per checkout transaction

No monthly fee, no lock-in, and your data stays portable. Custom pricing for high volume.

See pricing
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Included

  • Checkout
  • Subscriptions
  • Payments and local methods
  • Tax and compliance
  • Fraud protection
  • Reporting
  • Upsell insights
  • Support
  • Migration
  • Buyer billing support

On the record

  • SOC 2 Type 2
  • GDPR
  • PCI DSS SAQ A
  • CCPA

For developers

Integrate in an afternoon. Drop in Paddle.js and open a checkout; the currency, the tax and the payment methods resolve from where the buyer is. Dometrain launched globally in two hours.

<script src="https://cdn.paddle.com/paddle/v2/paddle.js"></script>
<script>
  Paddle.Initialize({ token: "live_xxxxxxxxxxxx" });

  // Open a localized checkout: currency, tax and
  // payment methods resolve from the buyer's location.
  Paddle.Checkout.open({
    items: [{ priceId: "pri_01h...", quantity: 1 }],
    customer: { email: "ada@example.com" },
  });
</script>

Shape of a Paddle.js checkout; see developer.paddle.com for the exact API.

Start selling

Reach every market. Capture every opportunity.

Take the headache out of growing your software business. Start self-serve, or talk to Paddle about volume pricing and migration.

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