Handling VAT collection and remittance for sales to VAT-collecting countries, Acting as a merchant of record to handle sales tax calculation and remittance, Providing global tax compliance for software sales
It acts as a merchant of record to handle global tax compliance, which is ideal for small companies selling digital products internationally.
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Fastspring is more expensive than Paddle but has more features.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: dealing with VAT for subscription payments
The merchant of Record will then act as a middleman reseller between your SaaS and a consumer, and will take full responsibility not only for calculating, but also collecting and filing taxes in any of the jurisdictions.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Acting as a Merchant of Record to handle all tax responsibilities for a SaaS
You end up paying more to them than Stripe would charge, but it might be worth it if you just don't want to deal with that administrative headache.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Handling international taxes and acting as merchant of record for downloadable software
Fastspring fails on this, since they only put my email address on their invoices, so customers email me with all kinds of billing questions that I can't fix.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Payment processing and invoicing
Fastspring was feature packed (e.g. users get a web interface to manage their subscription) but more expensive.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Considered for SaaS
I am still debating whether going global in a weekend outweighs the legal exposure.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Merchant of Record for global payments, tax, and compliance
These are basically distributors that sell your software in their name and take on the liability of filing taxes correctly.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Merchant of Record to sell software and handle tax liability
Other options are Paddle and FastSpring.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Suggested as another Merchant of Record option.
FastSpring does not handle domestic US sales tax correctly. I noticed this when I ordered an upgrade to BBEdit, and the tax came to 9.24% instead of the correct 9%.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Handling domestic US sales tax collection as a merchant of record for software sales.
Some of those services are still around, like FastSpring and Paddle. The main advantage of those companies now is they offer global tax compliance.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: A modern e-commerce service offering global tax compliance for software sales.
Use a payment processor that acts as a reseller of your digital products (Paddle, 2Checkout, FastSpring)... they will be responsible for calculating and remitting sales taxes.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Act as a merchant of record to handle sales tax calculation and remittance.
our solution is to defer all payments for countries that collect VAT... to FastSpring (which collects AND remits VAT)... this works well if you are a small company.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Merchant of record to handle VAT collection and remittance for sales to VAT-collecting countries.
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