---
name: Paddle
domain: paddle.com
kind: product
relation: competitor
segment: online payment acceptance
descGrounded: 1
---

# Paddle

A Merchant of Record platform that manages payments, tax, compliance, and billing for digital product businesses.

**Route:** surfaced by the online payment acceptance lane's de-branded queries → competitor to stripe.com.

**Why it's on the map:** Sells the same payment-infrastructure, subscription-management, and compliance-handling capabilities to the same SaaS and digital-product businesses that would shortlist the anchor.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> manages payments, tax, compliance, and billing across 300+ markets

> the only complete billing solution for digital products

> Payments , subscriptions , localized checkout , sales tax and regulatory compliance - all fully managed

**Edges:**

- competitor [[grow-cleverbridge-com]]
- competitor [[exalate-com]]
- competitor [[paypal-com]]
- competitor [[squareup-com]]
- competitor [[checkout-com]]
- competitor [[stripe-com]]
- competitor [[fastspring-com]]
- competitor [[zapier-com]]
- competitor [[thrivecart-com]]
- lists [[platformadvisor-org]]
- competitor [[connectpay-com]]
- competitor [[getlago-com]]
- competitor [[schematichq-com]]
- competitor [[fungies-io]]
- competitor [[xflowpay-com]]
- competitor [[assembly-com]]
- competitor [[creem-io]]
- competitor [[rippling-com]]
- lists [[viralmarketinglab-com]]
- competitor [[ebrands-com]]
- competitor [[outseta-com]]
- competitor [[wise-com]] *(inferred)*
- competitor [[gocardless-com]] *(inferred)*
