
Paddle
Complete payment and subscription management for SaaS.

What is Paddle?
Try PaddlePaddle for App Studios is a global Merchant of Record that helps unify web payments, subscriptions, chargebacks, and compliance across every app and market. It lets you launch once and roll out payments and billing across products with localized checkout and multiple gateways to maximize payment performance. Paddle also provides tools, insights, and benchmarks to help you optimize web revenue, reduce operational risk, and scale into 100+ markets.
What does Paddle do for app studios building subscriptions on the web?
Paddle unifies web payments and subscriptions with chargebacks and compliance so your apps can operate consistently across markets. As a Merchant of Record, Paddle manages the payments and compliance workflows that help keep revenue predictable while you scale your web channel.
How does Paddle help app studios launch payments and subscriptions faster?
With one integration, Paddle is designed to support launching and operating payments, subscriptions, refunds, and reporting across every product in your portfolio. That reduces the need to build and maintain separate payments or billing setups per app.
What does “Merchant of Record” mean in Paddle’s model?
As a Merchant of Record, Paddle manages payments, chargebacks, and compliance, which helps simplify operations and reduce disruptions from disputes. The goal is to keep subscription revenue more predictable as you expand.
How does Paddle optimize checkout and payment performance across countries?
Paddle provides localized checkout and routes transactions through multiple gateways to maximize payment performance. It’s built to support access to 100+ markets on the web without requiring you to set up payments, tax, or compliance infrastructure for each location.
Does Paddle support compliance and dispute risk management for web revenue?
Yes. Paddle is designed to balance speed with stability so revenue flows without disruptions from disputes, and it includes chargebacks and compliance management as part of its Merchant of Record offering. It also provides insights and benchmarks to help you make faster, smarter decisions about growth.
Is Paddle built for developers, or can app studios use it with less effort?
Paddle is designed around a single integration for launching payments, subscriptions, refunds, and reporting across apps, with a focus on making global expansion easier. That lets app studios expand their web channel quickly without building new payments, tax, or compliance setups for every market.