Category · 10 tools

Payments & commerce

Take payments and sell things — checkout, subscriptions and merchant-of-record platforms.

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Payments & commerce

Chargebee

A subscription billing and revenue management platform for recurring businesses.

Freemium
  • billing
  • subscriptions
  • saas
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Subscription billing once it gets complicated — trials, proration, dunning, revenue ops. Worth it when your billing logic has outgrown raw Stripe; overkill before that.

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Payments & commerce

Gumroad

A simple platform for creators to sell digital products, memberships and courses.

Freemium
  • payments
  • creators
  • digital-products
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The simplest way to sell a digital product — paste a button, get paid. Great for creators and quick launches; the per-sale fee is the trade for zero setup.

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Payments & commerce

Lemon Squeezy

A merchant-of-record platform for selling digital products and SaaS, handling tax compliance.

Freemium
  • payments
  • merchant-of-record
  • saas
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Payments plus the tax-and-compliance headache handled for you, since they're the merchant of record. The indie-friendly way to sell digital products without becoming a tax expert; now owned by Stripe.

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Payments & commerce

Medusa

An open-source, developer-first commerce platform and framework.

Free
  • ecommerce
  • open-source
  • headless
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The open-source, headless commerce engine you customise in code — a Shopify alternative for developers. The pick when you need a bespoke store and want to own the stack; you host it.

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Payments & commerce

Paddle

A merchant-of-record payments platform for SaaS, handling billing, tax and global compliance.

Freemium
  • payments
  • saas
  • merchant-of-record
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Like Lemon Squeezy but more enterprise — they handle global tax and act as merchant of record. A strong pick for SaaS selling worldwide that doesn't want the tax burden.

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Payments & commerce

Polar

An open-source merchant-of-record billing platform built for developers and AI products.

Freemium
  • payments
  • merchant-of-record
  • developers
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A developer-first merchant of record with a lovely API and entitlements like license keys and GitHub access. The fresh, indie-friendly take on monetizing software; check the per-sale fee.

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Payments & commerce

Shopify

A hosted commerce platform for building and running online stores.

Paid
  • ecommerce
  • store
  • hosted
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The default for a serious online store — hosted, reliable, endless apps. Overkill if you're selling one digital thing; the right call once you're running a real shop.

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Payments & commerce

Snipcart

A developer-friendly shopping cart you add to any website with a few lines of HTML.

Freemium
  • ecommerce
  • cart
  • jamstack
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Bolt a real cart and checkout onto any static or custom site with a snippet. The pick when you want e-commerce on a site you built yourself, not a whole platform.

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Payments & commerce

Square

A commerce platform with payment APIs spanning online and in-person point of sale.

Freemium
  • payments
  • pos
  • commerce
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Strong when you sell both online and in person — the same system runs your web checkout and the card reader. Less of a developer darling than Stripe, but unbeatable for physical retail.

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Payments & commerce

Stripe

A developer-first payments platform for one-off charges, subscriptions and marketplaces.

Freemium
  • payments
  • subscriptions
  • api
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The gold standard for taking payments in code — superb docs, APIs and dashboard. Free to integrate; they take a cut per transaction. If you're charging money, you'll probably start here.

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