Paddle

Founded by Christian Owens & Harrison Rose in 2012

Manage global subscriptions, customer payments, sales taxes, and billing compliance for digital businesses

Pricing model

Paid

Rating

★ People love it

Time to value

Quick Setup (< 1 hour)

You can use Paddle to sell digital products and software worldwide without worrying about localized compliance or tax collection. It acts as a Merchant of Record, processing payments across hundreds of markets while automatically calculating and remitting international sales taxes. You can set up recurring subscriptions, manage customer checkouts, handle billing cycles, and recover lost revenue from failed payment attempts. Additionally, Paddle tracks financial performance metrics and protects your business against fraudulent chargebacks, letting you expand globally with minimal administrative overhead.

What Paddle does

Configure recurring subscription tiers and pricing modelsRemit international sales taxes across different tax jurisdictionsRecover failed credit card payments automaticallyTrack monthly recurring revenue and customer churn ratesAccept customer payments in dozens of local currenciesProcess customer refunds and subscription cancellationsEmbed a localized checkout overlay on your websiteMerchant of record legal and financial liability coverageAutomated global sales tax and VAT collection and remittanceLocalized checkout flows with multiple local currenciesAutomated dunning and recovery for failed paymentsRecurring billing and subscription lifecycle managementReal-time revenue metrics and retention trackingBuilt-in fraud detection and chargeback mitigation