Payments, billing and distribution

Braintree is a full-stack payment gateway owned by PayPal that lets businesses accept cards, digital wallets, PayPal, and Venmo through clean SDKs and a GraphQL API, with support for subscription billing and a payment vault.

Alternative toStripe|PayPal|AAdyen

Bank payment infrastructure platform offering a unified API for ACH, same-day ACH, and real-time payment rails (RTP and FedNow), plus digital wallets and mass payouts. Lets platforms and enterprises embed money movement into their products.

FastSpring is an all-in-one merchant of record platform for selling software, SaaS, games, and digital products globally. It handles payments, subscriptions, tax compliance, fraud prevention, and affiliate marketing.

Alternative toPaddle|Stripe|LSLemon Squeezy

Gumroad is a platform that lets creators sell digital products such as courses, art, software, and subscriptions, handling payments, taxes, and storefronts.

Alternative toLSLemon Squeezy|PPayhip|Sellfy

Paddle acts as the merchant of record for digital product businesses, handling payments, sales tax, compliance, billing, and subscriptions across 300+ markets. It covers recurring billing, fraud protection, and invoicing so software companies do not manage tax liability themselves.

Alternative toStripe|FastSpring|LSLemon Squeezy

Paymentwall is a payments platform offering 150+ local payment methods across 200+ markets via APIs, SDKs, and hosted checkout. It includes the FraudForce fraud prevention system, subscription billing, micropayments, mobile carrier billing, and smart routing.

Alternative toStripe|PayPal|APAmazon Pay

PayPal is a global online payments platform that lets businesses accept card, wallet and PayPal payments, send invoices, and get paid online and in person.

Alternative toStripe|Square|AAdyen

Podia is an all-in-one platform for creators to sell online courses, memberships, digital downloads and coaching, with a built-in website, email marketing and community tools.

Alternative toKKajabi|TTeachable|Gumroad

A subscription management and recurring billing platform that automates plans, checkout, payment recovery, revenue recognition, and subscriber retention for digital subscription businesses.

Sellfy is an ecommerce platform that lets creators build a storefront to sell digital products, physical goods, subscriptions, and print-on-demand items with zero transaction fees. It includes email marketing, discounts, and upsell tools.

Alternative toGumroad|Shopify|PPayhip

Square provides payment processing, point-of-sale hardware and software, invoicing, and developer APIs for businesses to accept payments in person and online.

Alternative toStripe|PayPal|SSumUp

A payments and financial infrastructure platform that lets businesses accept payments globally, manage subscriptions and billing, issue cards, and embed financial services through its APIs.

Alternative toPayPal|AAdyen|Braintree