Lemon Squeezy

Lemon Squeezy is a merchant-of-record platform for software, SaaS products, and digital goods, it acts as the legal seller of record on your behalf, absorbing the complexity of global sales tax collection, VAT compliance, GDPR requirements, and payment processing across 135+ currencies. This model is specifically valuable for indie developers and software businesses selling to international customers: rather than researching tax obligations in each country your customers buy from, Lemon Squeezy handles all of it automatically, remitting taxes to the appropriate jurisdictions and providing compliant invoices. The platform supports one-time purchases, subscriptions, free trials, usage-based billing, and license key delivery for software products. The checkout is customizable and embeddable, products can be sold through Lemon Squeezy's hosted storefront, a checkout overlay embedded on your own site, or direct checkout links.

Affiliate management, discount codes, and email capture are built in. The developer API provides full programmatic control over products, licenses, subscriptions, and webhooks. Transaction fees start at 5% + $0.50 for the Starter plan, decreasing on higher-volume plans. Lemon Squeezy is positioned specifically for the indie SaaS and software creator segment, developers who want to sell software globally without becoming tax compliance experts or building payment infrastructure.