Zell Liew
@zellwk
How does Germany makes VAT extremely difficult? I wanna know what you’re referring to here.
I’m in Singapore and I’ve been handling VAT with Thrivecart’s tax collection information + my accountant at this point anyway.
Would you go Stripe, Paddle or Lemon and why?
LS or Paddle, because I don't have a choice. Stripe doesn't operate in South Africa and there are 0 payment providers here offering charging in USD. Big potential conversion issue.
How would you choose between Stripe and Paddle?
Paddle works as a Merchant of Record, like a middleman selling your product, that way they can collect sales Tax for you and pay it in the country in which your customer is a resident.
Stripe can calculate tax rates but you have to file in every country in teory. You can avoid it maybe until you get big but still some countries require you to do so. I think this will be more enforced in upcoming years.
Stripe is not available in every country. That may also affect your decision.
I am using Paddle but Stripe is not available in my country. I would have used Stripe otherwise.
Pretty interesting discussion going on here!
I’ve been using Mongo (via Mongoose) for a while and I tried SQLite recently.
I like SQLite for the standardised way of building databases. With MongoDB, there’s no real best practice and everything is open to interpretation
Just two reasons at this point:
- I cannot change / upgrade / downgrade a subscription for users right now. There’s literally no API for it.
- I cannot cancel a user’s subscription from the API as well.
So the user’s experience will be sub-par compared to most solutions today, since they will have to email for support.
Cool. I'd love to hear more, and what interactions are you gonna be using it for?
I don't know really yet but maybe navigation between contents.
Today we use header and push hierarchy and all the links inside. It takes a lot of efforts to find a link. Maybe we can use this waiting zone to simplify navigation between contents.
Sounds like a pain!