Lemon Squeezy

Lemon Squeezy is a payments and commerce platform for selling software, subscriptions and digital products. It acts as merchant of record, so it collects payment, calculates and remits sales tax and VAT across jurisdictions, handles refunds and chargebacks, and delivers the license keys or downloads that a purchase unlocks. Sellers get hosted checkout pages or a checkout overlay that drops into an existing site. It suits SaaS companies, independent developers, course creators and anyone selling digital downloads. Subscriptions can bill weekly, monthly or yearly with one time and recurring charges on the same product, and the platform supports more than 20 payment methods including PayPal, customers in more than 135 countries and pricing in local currencies. Built in tooling covers license key issuance, affiliate programs, discount codes, lead magnets, pay what you want pricing, customer segmentation, dunning and failed payment recovery, and a metrics dashboard for MRR, churn and average order value. Fraud prevention uses AI to detect anomalous patterns in signups, logins and refunds in real time. Developers work through a REST API with webhooks, with no code options for those who do not need it. There is no monthly fee. Lemon Squeezy charges 5 percent plus 50 cents per transaction, with volume based pricing available on request, and notes that some payments, including many made outside the US, attract small additional fees documented in its help center. Email marketing is free for up to 500 subscribers, with paid tiers priced by subscriber count. The site carries a 2026 update on Lemon Squeezy with Stripe Managed Payments, and sales are now made through Link, LLC, formerly Lemon Squeezy LLC.