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Sell Software Online with Paddle's SaaS Commerce Platform

Starting price
5% + 50¢ per Checkout transaction
Website
paddle.com

About Paddle

Paddle is a SaaS commerce platform that acts as the merchant of record, handling payments, tax, and compliance for software products. It serves software teams selling digital goods globally, reducing the need for extra tools or headcount so they can scale faster.

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Key Features

For teams scaling SaaS, the core challenge is managing billing, tax compliance, and regional checkout across markets. Paddle centralizes payments infrastructure, tax handling, analytics, and automated payment recovery in one place, enabling global growth with less integration:

Billing

The complete SaaS billing stack, including smart payment routing, sales tax and VAT compliance, subscription management, and localized checkout, all managed for you.

ProfitWell Metrics

Real-time revenue reporting for subscriptions and SaaS; accurate, accessible, and completely free.

Retain

Automatically recovers failed payments, reduces cancellations, and optimizes subscriptions to protect revenue at every stage of the customer lifecycle.

Localized Checkouts

Localized checkout experiences to support multi-region customers and currencies.

Summary

Best for product-led SaaS teams, revenue operations, and growth-focused software companies selling globally.

Plans and prices as listed on paddle.com as of Sep 24, 2026.

Pay-as-you-go

5% + 50¢ / per Checkout transaction

  • Global payments and billing seamlessly unified in one platform
  • Cross-border sales tax compliance
  • Protection against fraud and chargebacks
  • No migration fees, monthly fees, or hidden extras

Custom pricing

Custom pricing

  • Tailored pricing for rapidly scaling and established large-scale businesses
  • Get access to optional premium services and success management
  • Custom migration services and implementation support

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