What is Paddle and what is it used for?
Paddle is a billing and payments platform for digital businesses that acts as the merchant of record: it sells the software on the company's behalf and takes on payments, sales tax, fraud and chargebacks.
In practice, a company that sells software, apps or subscriptions does not have to register to collect tax in each country or handle payment disputes alone. Paddle is the legal seller of each transaction and passes the net amount on to the company.
The platform also manages the subscription: plans, recurring charges, free trials, upgrades, refunds and invoices. It supports per-seat and usage-based billing, and an API with billing events lets you connect payments and subscriptions to the product.
The model suits SaaS companies, apps, games and digital products that sell to customers in many markets. The descriptions come from the vendor itself.






