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Paddle

paddle.com
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The only complete Merchant of Record solution purpose-built for SaaS and apps

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Overview

Paddle provides a comprehensive payment infrastructure for SaaS businesses, handling payments, tax and compliance needs, and revenue data reconciliation. It offers a range of products, including billing, checkout, subscriptions, and payment analytics, as well as solutions for selling digital products, software, and online gaming payments.

Features

9 features across 3 categories

Core(6)

Dunning management software

Automatically recover failed card payments and increase customer retention

In-app purchase

Take advantage of lower fees, more control, and faster growth

Online checkout

High-performance, localized checkout

Recurring billing software

Manage recurring payments and subscriptions

SaaS subscription management

Flexible, multi-product subscriptions

Sales tax and VAT compliance

Eliminate sales tax headaches with full, automatic global tax compliance

Also in: Insider CDP, Ironclad, Hunter

Reporting(2)

Payment analytics

Accurate, accessible revenue reporting for subscription and SaaS companies

Subscription analytics

Keep a finger on the pulse of your business with accurate, accessible revenue reporting

Also in: monday.com, Smartsheet, 1Password

Security(1)

Payment fraud detection

Reduce your risk with fraud prevention and protection

Also in: Hugging Face, Notion, Airtable

Pricing

Custom

Custom
  • ✓Recurring billing software
  • ✓Online checkout
  • ✓SaaS subscription management
  • ✓Sales tax and VAT compliance
  • ✓Payment fraud detection
  • ✓Payment analytics
  • ✓In-app purchase
  • ✓Subscription analytics
  • ✓Dunning management software

Cost Calculator

Pricing data not available for Paddle. Check their website for current pricing.

Build vs Buy

Should you build a Paddle alternative or buy the subscription? Estimate based on 9 features.

Buy Paddle

Better Value
Monthly costContact Sales
3-year totalVaries
Time to deployDays

Build Your Own

Development cost$12,000
Maintenance$180/mo
3-year total$18,480
Dev time~1 months

Buying Paddle saves ~$18,480 over 3 years vs building.

Estimates based on 9 features and a BuildScore of 5/5. Actual costs vary.

Integrations

6 known integrations

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