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- Gumroad como merchant of record (no soy autónomo)
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Acting as merchant of record for handling payments (to avoid needing to be a registered freelancer)
Gumroad is cheaper than Paddle but doesn't integrate well with SaaS products last time I checked.
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 can also use Gumroad... to accept payments, but they don’t perfectly fit this use case.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: accepting payments for Micro SaaS products
The internet is full of valuable PDFs, templates, eBooks, and swipe files—but they’re scattered across blogs, Gumroad links, and tweets. Most of the good stuff was hidden behind paywalls.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Finding digital resources (PDFs, templates) that were often locked behind paywalls.
For the last mile, having something like Paddle or Gumroad act as a merchant of record... is the best.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Suggested as a merchant of record to handle international complexity.
Gumroad was more for digital products you buy a license key for (vs a SaaS subscription).
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Considered for SaaS but perceived as more for digital products
The company that was (still is) eating Gumroad is Paddle. I guess that's main reason why some people choose Gumroad Lemon over Paddle.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Selling digital files
Maybe part of your success was being on Gumroad to begin with (which is not just a MoR)... Merchant of Records saved my life, F*k Europe VATMOSS, Sales Taxes, GST and every other crap governments add just to kill small businesses.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Marketplace for visibility, traffic, and as a Merchant of Record
a Writer bot handles the Gumroad listings and marketing copy.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Hosting and selling the products (like the Next.js AI SaaS Boilerplate) and marketing copy
direct payments and subscriptions into your Gumroad Stripe Paddle account, no commission.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Processing direct payments and subscriptions for authors.
a lot of web development has gone no-code through the use of frameworks and platforms like... Gumroad... Now you can get a full e-commerce site with analytics and payments integrated fairly easily with basically no technical knowledge.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Selling a digital widget/product over the internet
If you are worried about taxes, then you can use a MoR (Merchant of Record) payment provider like LemonSqueezy, Gumroad, or Paddle.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Mentioned as a viable Merchant of Record payment provider for handling taxes.
Gumroad and Lemon Squeezy are other examples you could use, where they both have simple license key checking web APIs.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Suggested as a payment/licensing system alternative for browser extensions.
The Gumroad checkout design is so bad it loses sales imo.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Checkout and sales platform
I would start with a simple payment platform like... Gumroad and simply manually copy-pasting the add for the given amount of time.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Simple payment platform for customers to buy ads on their platform.
solid system never had issues does most what I need. high fees and ugly design... the Gumroad checkout design is so bad it loses sales imo.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Selling templates (digital products)
I do sell a more comprehensive collection with project-specific templates on Gumroad, but the generator covers the most common use cases for free.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Selling a more comprehensive collection of project-specific templates
Tools like Gumroad where it still feels like someone else's store.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Selling digital products
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