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A comment on Gumroad's Interestingly Timed "Open-Source" Play. Parent comment

Re:Gumroad's Interestingly Timed "Open-Source" Play by gkoberger on Sunday April 06, 2025 @03:52PM (#43604401)
Stripe can likely do it with link.com, assuming you don’t need help with distribution
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Re:Gumroad's Interestingly Timed "Open-Source" Play by nikolas- on Sunday April 06, 2025 @03:53PM (#43604412)
Lemon Squeezy (recently acquired by Stripe) has a native digital product solution (https://www.lemonsqueezy.com/ecommerce/digital-products)
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Re:Gumroad's Interestingly Timed "Open-Source" Play by oakesm9 on Sunday April 06, 2025 @04:00PM (#43604470)
The major benefit of a service like Gumroad is they are the merchant of record and handle worldwide taxes for you. Stripe does not do that (yet?)
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Re:Gumroad's Interestingly Timed "Open-Source" Play by fuzztester on Sunday April 06, 2025 @04:02PM (#43604489)
>taxes for you.

including EU VAT, last I checked.

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Re:Gumroad's Interestingly Timed "Open-Source" Play by rchaud on Sunday April 06, 2025 @06:00PM (#43605315)
They announced the MOR feature in December 2024, so I wouldn't really say that's a big selling point for them just yet, they have been around for over a decade.
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