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by mbStavola 1070 days ago
While we're talking about Stripe alternatives, anyone have a good Stripe Tax alternative?

Their pricing is actually insane as they charge per API call rather than transaction amount. That sort of pricing made sense for TaxJar because it was their whole deal, but post-acquisition it would've made more sense to treat the tax product as a complement to the core business and just tack on a small 50c fee for successful tax collection.
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khemdhaliwal 1070 days ago
Hey mbStavola, Khem from the Paddle team here. We see quite a few sites switch over from Stripe Tax - offloading tax (including the filing) is our core competency (rather than bundling loads of tools together) and we'd charge per transaction for everything to save you paying unnecessary fees. Happy to chat if you'd like to learn more :)
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mbStavola 1070 days ago
I'd absolutely love to switch to Paddle, the product seems great. Unfortunately, my business is a marketplace which I don't believe Paddle supports. Happy to be wrong on that though!

Are there any plans to have a marketplace offering?

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khemdhaliwal 1070 days ago
Unfortunately not sadly - we'd love to but the tax categories prevent us from working with any site where the products aren't yours. This is because it takes on all the tax liability.

Stripe are awesome for that (can appreciate the costs stack up internationally though). At your avg transaction size I'm not sure I'd know anything cheaper that's worth the extra work.

Best of Luck!

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