Paddle

Paddle is a hosted merchant of record for software and digital products. It takes payments from buyers and handles tax, compliance and billing on the seller’s behalf, and its pages say it does this across its supported markets. Developers connect a product to it through the Paddle API, webhooks and Paddle.js, and the developer documentation names SDKs as well.

Worth knowing

Paddle runs only as a hosted service, so no part of it is installed on the seller’s side. Its Node.js SDK is a client library for the hosted API. Paddle’s own compare pages present it as an alternative to Stripe, Chargebee, Lemon Squeezy, Adyen and Recurly. The company a buyer contracts with depends on the buyer’s location: the terms name three contracting companies in different countries.