Polar

Polar provides a complete payment infrastructure designed for developers selling SaaS and digital products. It simplifies the entire process, from integration to tax compliance, allowing you to focus on building your product. With framework adapters for tools like Next.js, you can integrate secure checkouts and a customer portal in minutes.

One of its standout features is its role as a Global Merchant of Record. This means Polar handles all the complexities of global sales tax, VAT, and GST on your behalf, so you don't have to.

Key capabilities include:

• Ingestion-Based Billing: Implement usage-based billing on autopilot, with specialized strategies for things like LLM token consumption.
• Automated Product Benefits: Automatically grant customers access to license keys, digital downloads, GitHub repositories, or Discord servers upon purchase.
• Developer-Centric Tooling: Utilize command-line tools to bootstrap projects, migrate from other platforms, or sell files directly from your terminal.
• Open Source & Extensible: As an open-source platform, it offers a growing list of integrations with tools like Raycast, Framer, and Zapier.