I use LemonSqueezy. No hidden costs from what I've seen, they advertise what the fees are on their pricing page - you will get bitten by PayPal payments but they advertise how much their fees increase for PayPal, and otherwise it's ~5%. The killer features for me are:
1. Global tax remittance. A lot of people are very passionate about not remitting sales tax at all until you get bigger, but I like to do things by the book when it comes to anything legal/tax related, so it's easier for me to just have a MoR handle this for me instead of taking my chances.
2. PayPal one-time payments and subscriptions.
3. Easy signup. Not as easy as Stripe because they have to approve each store for payments manually, but it only takes about 12-24h per store.
I tried to sign up with Paddle but their onboarding process was terrible. They wanted to review a refund policy, legal docs, and a bunch of other stuff I hadn't prepared yet since I was just building for the first time so I told them to forget it.
Weird, I only pay a flat $0.50/payout. Looked further and I think I’m benefitting from having a business based in the US and using PayPal for payouts. Seems their fees are significantly worse for international businesses and bank payouts. Don’t blame you for going back to Stripe.
Another option you could consider is Gumroad - they charge 10% all in (no extra payout fees) but I personally hate their checkout design and the founder seems to be an off-center person (often complains about competitors), not someone I’d trust with my payments.
I've used Gumroad before I switched over to Thrivecart. It was more for simple products and not Sass. Since I'm building subscriptions at this point, Gumroad doesn't sound suitable.
I use LemonSqueezy. No hidden costs from what I've seen, they advertise what the fees are on their pricing page - you will get bitten by PayPal payments but they advertise how much their fees increase for PayPal, and otherwise it's ~5%. The killer features for me are:
1. Global tax remittance. A lot of people are very passionate about not remitting sales tax at all until you get bigger, but I like to do things by the book when it comes to anything legal/tax related, so it's easier for me to just have a MoR handle this for me instead of taking my chances.
2. PayPal one-time payments and subscriptions.
3. Easy signup. Not as easy as Stripe because they have to approve each store for payments manually, but it only takes about 12-24h per store.
I tried to sign up with Paddle but their onboarding process was terrible. They wanted to review a refund policy, legal docs, and a bunch of other stuff I hadn't prepared yet since I was just building for the first time so I told them to forget it.
Whelp Paddle just rejected my application so I’m gonna go back to Stripe.
LS has 2.5% payout fees so its gonna get too expensive for me to use them.
Weird, I only pay a flat $0.50/payout. Looked further and I think I’m benefitting from having a business based in the US and using PayPal for payouts. Seems their fees are significantly worse for international businesses and bank payouts. Don’t blame you for going back to Stripe.
Another option you could consider is Gumroad - they charge 10% all in (no extra payout fees) but I personally hate their checkout design and the founder seems to be an off-center person (often complains about competitors), not someone I’d trust with my payments.
I've used Gumroad before I switched over to Thrivecart. It was more for simple products and not Sass. Since I'm building subscriptions at this point, Gumroad doesn't sound suitable.
Fair enough