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The buyer pays Lemon Squeezy, not you. The sale and the customer record belong to them, and your money arrives later as a payout, on their schedule.
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Coming from Lemon Squeezy?
These are two very different tools. Lemon Squeezy is a merchant of record, which means they sell on your behalf. We are simple plumbing between your page and payment accounts you own. Once you know which one you need, the rest of this page is easy.
What merchant-of-record buys you
Lemon Squeezy sells one big benefit: you can stop thinking about sales tax. As the merchant of record, they own each transaction, so they register, collect, and pay sales tax and VAT across borders for you. They also bundle in checkout, licensing, and email tools. If you ship digital goods into thirty countries, that is real relief.
What it costs you
Because they own the transaction, they also own the rules. They decide what you can sell, they review your account, and they can freeze it. They do not allow crypto at all. Sellers usually leave when they realize how much control they traded away for that relief.
What stays the same
You still sell from a static page with no backend. Both tools handle the checkout plumbing for you, so you keep editing your site exactly the way you do now.
Who owns the transaction
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The buyer pays through your own Stripe, PayPal, or NOWPayments account. We verify the sale, log it, and get out of the way. There is no payout to wait for, because the money never touches us.
Why it matters
Nobody can freeze money they never hold. The worst we can do is lose you as a customer, because the open SDK lets you point your button somewhere else. Their worst case is your revenue stuck in someone else's review queue.
Weigh it honestly
What you gain
- Your own payment accounts, in your own name. We never hold your money.
- Crypto and pay-by-mail in the picker, with no rules keeping them out.
- A flat monthly price, and 0% of your sales, ever.
- An open-source exit no one can close, not even us.
What you give up
- Tax handled for you. Collecting and paying tax where required becomes your job again.
- The legal shield of having a merchant of record.
- Their licensing, affiliate, and email tools.
How to make the move
- Open your own payment accounts if you do not have them yet. They belong to you, not us.
- Create a project, connect those accounts, add your products.
- Attach files to digital products so delivery stays automatic.
- Point your buy links at pages carrying the button, and test in test mode.
- Stop issuing the old checkout links, and wind the store down as in-flight orders settle.
Subscriptions cannot move between systems. Existing ones keep billing where they are until they cancel, so subscribers will need to sign up again through your button. Write that email to them before you switch the links.
A fair case for staying
If you signed up for the tax handling and crypto means nothing to you, a merchant of record is the right tool, and we are not one. This page is for the sellers their rules kept out.
Try it before you decide
The free plan is a full sandbox. You get every feature and 150 transactions a month, and we never ask for a card.