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I've been selling a SaaS product for the last four years. Originally I used Stripe but recently switched to Paddle.

The main reason is that it makes my life a lot easier, they act as a reseller so I effectively sell my product to them, and they sell it on to customers. At the end of each month I just need to enter a single payment into my accounting platform, and they handle all currency conversions (I sell in USD, my accounting is in GBP) and sales taxes. They of course charge more, but for the amounts I'm talking about the cost outweighs the time I was spending dealing with Stripe payments.

They also support PayPal which I've had a lot of people ask for, so that's a win too.

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While the overall complexity of the integration is less than Stripe, i feel like the whole thing is still in beta stage. There is no real isolated test environment, the suggested way of doing this is to give yourself a refund or work with $0 products.

I just have a secret 100% off voucher code for testing. It's not perfect and I'd would prefer a real test environment, but it does the job fine.

Sorry if it's offtopic, but can you give me an estimate of how much is Paddle charging? Their pricing page is not really helpful. Also, how easy it was to implement into your systems?

This service is still alpha/beta at best. I tried them and I got customers with double charges, missing emails, and their interface is difficult to understand and make use of. Give them one more year before trying.

At the same time it's being used for https://realpython.com which has millions of monthly views and an unknown (but likely high) amount of developers paying for their subscription through Paddle.

If you want to hear a success story about it, we talked about it when Dan (the guy who runs Real Python) went over his entire tech stack on this podcast: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/4-real-python-is-one...

36:36 is when the Paddle bits starts.

Did you have a bad experience with it? If so, how long ago was that? I was thinking about using it on a future project.

this. accounting has become a big burden , especially if you are using microtransactions. i use xsolla for game payments for the same reasons. any alternatives to suggest?

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