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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?
Lemon Squeezy takes 5% of every sale plus 50 cents, and that is before the surcharges stack on top. They can charge that because they become the seller, which makes the sale and the customer theirs rather than yours. We are the opposite arrangement, sitting between your page and the payment providers you already use.
The one thing you are paying for
Lemon Squeezy handles sales tax. As the merchant of record they register, collect, and pay sales tax and VAT across borders, and that is genuine work you stop doing. Hold on to that, because it is the only part of the arrangement that runs in your favor.
What it costs you
The base rate is 5% plus 50 cents, and the surcharges pile up from there: another 1.5% on international cards, 1.5% on PayPal, and 0.5% on every subscription payment. Getting paid costs you again, at 1% for a payout to a bank outside the US. Because they own the transaction they own the rules too, so they decide what you may sell, they review your account, and they can freeze it. Crypto is not permitted at all.
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
- Payment providers in your own name, holding your own money. We never hold it.
- Crypto and pay-by-mail behind the same buy button, 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. Registering, collecting, and paying it goes back on your plate.
- Their licensing, affiliate, and email tools.
How to make the move
- Open an account with a payment provider if you do not have one yet. Stripe, PayPal, and NOWPayments all work, and the account is yours, not ours.
- Create a project, connect those providers, 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.
When staying makes sense
If the tax handling is the whole reason you signed up and crypto means nothing to you, staying is defensible, and we are not a merchant of record. Price it first. That relief is costing you a percentage of every sale you will ever make, and it never gets cheaper as you grow.
Try it before you decide
The free plan is a full sandbox. You get every feature and 50 transactions a month, and we never ask for a card.