Paddle
Complete payment and subscription management for SaaS.
What is Paddle?
Try PaddlePaddle is an API-first Merchant of Record built for enterprise SaaS and app companies that want to expand globally without adding enterprise billing complexity. It handles payments, global tax (including sales tax, VAT, and GST), compliance, and subscription billing in 300+ markets so growth doesn’t get slowed by new registrations and workflows. Paddle also focuses on payment acceptance, failed-payment recovery, fraud and retention tools, and revenue reporting to help protect and optimize subscription revenue.
What does Paddle do for enterprise SaaS and apps selling globally?
Paddle manages payments, billing, global tax, and compliance as your Merchant of Record, helping you enter new regions without building new tax infrastructure. It supports subscription billing and checkout while centralizing the workflows that typically add complexity as you scale across markets.
How does Paddle handle global tax, VAT, and GST obligations?
Paddle provides end-to-end tax handling across supported jurisdictions, including registration, calculation, collection, filing, and remittance for sales tax, VAT, and GST in 300+ markets and territories. It also supports B2B reverse charge automatically when eligible customers provide a valid VAT ID at checkout.
Does Paddle support B2B requirements like reverse charge and VAT ID validation?
Yes. Paddle applies reverse charge automatically for eligible B2B customers when they provide a valid VAT ID at checkout, helping you meet common B2B tax requirements as you sell internationally.
Will Paddle make it easier to reduce billing complexity and vendor sprawl?
Paddle is designed to bring payments, billing, tax, compliance, fraud, retention, and reporting into one Merchant of Record platform. This helps reduce integration, reconciliation, and maintenance effort that can come from managing multiple vendors and workflows across teams.
How does Paddle help increase payment acceptance in different countries?
Paddle routes transactions across multiple gateways to help more payments succeed, and it uses localized payment methods and currencies across 175+ countries. It also supports higher approval rates through local acquiring.
Is Paddle no-code friendly, or is it mainly built for developers?
Paddle is positioned as the only API-first Merchant of Record, with best-in-class documentation, API & webhooks, and SDKs/libraries to help you get up and running quickly. It’s built for teams that want to integrate billing and subscription experiences through APIs and automate subscription changes and seat management.