Lemon Squeezy

Lemon Squeezy takes on the part of selling digital goods that has nothing to do with the product: tax. As merchant of record it registers, collects and remits sales tax in the places you sell, which is the obligation that quietly turns a side project into an accounting problem. Its cut covers that rather than only covering payment processing.

There is no monthly charge and no plan ladder, so a store that sells nothing costs nothing, and a domain you own attaches without any tier to reach. The commercial tooling around it is deeper than the size of the product suggests: email broadcasts, discount and coupon codes, affiliates, lead magnets, pay-what-you-want pricing, recovery for abandoned carts and failed payments, and revenue reporting.

The cost is that this is a settings screen rather than a website. Design control is a store logo, a header image and product imagery — no page editor, no template gallery and no stylesheet, which makes it a 1 for design, the narrowest surface among the stores here. The percentage is unavoidable because it is the business model, and it rises for extra payment methods and cross-border sales. Support is promised as staffed but no channel, tier or response time is published anywhere, and support takes a 2 for it.