Been great so far
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We wanted to be able to get to more users and to scale without having to worry about how we are going to receive payments from our users, also we wanted to implement the least amount of payment processors and don't have to worry about different country legislations. Paddle made this process easy for us, taking care of the legislations and VAT in the countries we offer our solution.
Pros
- Taking care of the relation with government entities and compliance in each country.
- They take care of the VAT for us.
- It gives the tools to scale to other countries being able to charge your users in different parts of the world.
Cons
- The inclusion of more currencies (CLP)
- Some users cannot pay with prepaid cards
Likelihood to Recommend
Paddle is a great way to expand quickly to other countries without the barrier of how you charge your users in different parts of the globe. Also, the way they manage the relations with country legislations, so you don't have to, is a no-brainer (the only throwback is that you cannot recover that VAT to use in your company as a credit).
In our case is not 100% suited for us. In the idea of just implementing and starting working with it, we had to create some way of showing prices in CLP to our users, and that convert to USD and charge that to our users. The fees are an area where Paddle can improve, considering that other providers like Stripe have fees of almost half.
