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by mattjaynes 1334 days ago
Man, I really had to search to find which payment gateways they support. I guess it makes their docs evergreen to not mention any, but it's one of the first questions many new users will have. After searching their docs with no luck, I finally just had to look at their github repos for plugins and there you can see some of them: https://github.com/orgs/killbill/repositories?q=plugin
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The problem with this is that you still have to calculate the VAT for each customer manually and submit that to your tax agency and transfer those funds.

For now there are ONLY 2 (non stupid) alternatives that do that dirty work for you:

- itch.io for one time products. (you could make manual subscriptions here redirecting your users every month/year)

- gumroad.com for subscriptions.

itch takes down to card fees only. gumroad takes more but it scales down as you earn more reaching parity at 30 cents + 2.9% per transaction if your lifetime earnings are $1+ million.

I doubt any of the integrations this open-source project offers will be so much better that it makes it worth the global VAT overhead?

Thanks for pointing this out. I posted the URL for the info here, but we will find a way to make this easier to find in the docs and website.

https://docs.killbill.io/latest/plugin_introduction.html#_li...