Paddle

What it is for

Paddle is a hosted Create Invoice desk: you add line items, and the public Cloud start we fetched is 5% + 50¢ per Checkout transaction. Use it when the job is an invoice you start at a public $, not when you need a $20 chat seat.

What makes it unique: the cover is Paddle’s official Create Invoice form (test00 qty 1 / $20.00 / 20% / $20.00, Testpricing qty 2 / $20.00 / 20% / $40.00, subtotal $60.00, tax $12.00, total $72.00, USD, due 14 days) from the invoice-help still — not a pricing card. The lines themselves are ops of Create Invoice.

Key features

• Create Invoice — line items, tax, and a total you send (cover still; pricing Invoicing). One desk. Cover test00 / $72.00 sit here. Preview / Save as Draft / Send sit here as CTAs, not a sixth desk.
• Products — the catalog an invoice picks from (help product list; pricing). A product, not a line total.
• Customers — who the invoice bills (help customer list). A customer, not a qty cell.
• Subscriptions — recurring billing next to invoices (pricing). A subscription, not a one-off line.
• Checkout — the hosted pay link an invoice can include (pricing; official Hosted Checkouts film). A checkout, not the Create Invoice grid. Cover “Include a link to pay via Paddle checkout” is a CTA on Create Invoice.

Preview / Save as Draft / Send Invoice on the cover are CTAs (not desks). Pay-as-you-go / Custom tiles are the meter. The 5% + 50¢ Checkout fee is the extra meter, not a desk we fold into Create Invoice.

Who it's for

Best fit: SaaS teams who will start on pay-as-you-go at 5% + 50¢ per Checkout while they send a first invoice, then Custom when volume or sub-$10 SKUs need a negotiated rate.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) from paddle.com/pricing. Figures below are the printed tiles (the HTML we curled is a JS shell; the live page / markdown we fetched prints these).

• Pay-as-you-go — 5% + 50¢ per Checkout transaction. No monthly fee. No migration fee. Payments, tax, fraud, chargebacks, buyer support included. Merchant of Record.
• Custom — contact sales. High-volume / low-value (under $10) SKUs. Dedicated success. Confirm the live quote.
• Payouts — no extra Paddle fee on payout. International SWIFT wires can print $15 (help: payout fees). Currency conversion margin up to 1.5%.

Confirm checkout; taxes are remitted by Paddle as MoR.

Limitations / costs

• There is no $0 forever platform seat. You pay 5% + 50¢ on the first Checkout.
• Sub-$10 SKUs are Custom. Do not assume the 5% tile.
• A Create Invoice desk, not Stripe’s Payments list. For that list see Stripe.

Alternatives

• Stripe — a Payments desk when you want Stripe’s public $, not Paddle’s test00 invoice.
• Lemon Squeezy — a MoR checkout when you want Lemon Squeezy’s public $, not 5% + 50¢.
• Front — a shared inbox when you want Front’s public $, not a Create Invoice total.

Official tutorial

Official Paddle channel video: How to Sell Outside the App Store with Paddle Hosted Checkouts (oEmbed author: Paddle). First-party Hosted Checkouts walkthrough; the Create Invoice still is the cover. Hosted Checkout on the video is a second desk, not generate-on-Create-Invoice. We searched @Paddle / @PaddleHQ — recent uploads are founder podcasts; this is the official Checkout product film we oEmbedded.

Written path: paddle.com/pricing plus the Create Invoice still.

Website

https://www.paddle.com

Repository

https://github.com/PaddleHQ

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is Paddle’s official Create Invoice still (test00 $20 + Testpricing $40 + total $72). Dollars checked on paddle.com/pricing (pay-as-you-go 5% + 50¢ per Checkout; Custom for sub-$10 / volume). Tutorial oEmbed author: Paddle.

Last verified

2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.