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#101

How does a seller deal with taxes and related legal stuff across jurisdiction? Do you handle them automagically?

Great question! For now, the seller has to deal with taxes themselves, but we plan on introducing a number of nifty ways to streamline & automate this process.

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Agreed. There are proxies which defeat detectors. If i were a fraudster i'd use those. So all you're doing is losing real customers.

Can you name some?

There are so called "residential proxies" that use a IP from some normal consumer ISP connection, not some datacenter IP. However there are services that can detect such residentials too, e.g. https://focsec.com/

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#104

What makes you better than Gumroad?

Gumroad seems to be focusing more and more on creators with a large following and is pivoting towards that segment of the market. This includes the decision to diversify into physical products, subscribing to a user (like Patreon), email marketing, affiliate marketing, blogging, and so on.

Given their refocus/pivot, it's made their interface a little too complex/overwhelming for new sellers and/or sellers who just want to sell digital products without all the hassle. SellApp is built for this segment of the market.

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#105

Congrats on the launch. The first thing I did was check if you are an MoR or a front for other payment gateways and quickly realised it is the latter. Please make it an MoR. We have too many digital goods/services payment processors (which I am sure many commenters have already listed) but very very few that are a full blown MoR. I don't mind paying 5%-8% fees for MoR. MoR is the selling point for me. Everything else…

Thanks Krishna!

We are not a MoR, and aren't planning on becoming one either. There's already fairly decent MoR solutions out there which take payments on the seller's behalf and distribute funds after a given timeframe (usually 1-2 weeks).

You could indeed spin up something that somewhat does the job with Stripe and some coding, but not everyone can code, and doing so also requires you to worry about hosting, domains/DNS, file distribution, security, fraud, and so on.

What we offer is a simple, straightforward way for someone to spin up a store in minutes, sell a digital good, and have the funds in their account right when the sale is completed. I think that's a bigger value-add than being yet another MoR

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#106
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Thanks for explaining. Would this work for an ebook that has unique watermarking per customer, or does it have to be the same exact downloadable each time? Other than ebooks, what are other popular product types that you're seeing?

Not a worry. We don't have eBook watermarking/stamping yet, so every customer will get the same exact eBook. That said, it's relatively easy to implement this specific feature (pretty sure I've got the relevant code from our old codebase somewhere) if/when a seller requests it. It's mostly either downloadable goods, or serial-based products, but we launched just last week so I anticipate the type of popular product t…

It’s easy if you know how to do it. You have to implement a backend that’s the issue. But I’ve heard that zappier might help you avoid that.

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#108

Congrats on the launch. The first thing I did was check if you are an MoR or a front for other payment gateways and quickly realised it is the latter. Please make it an MoR. We have too many digital goods/services payment processors (which I am sure many commenters have already listed) but very very few that are a full blown MoR. I don't mind paying 5%-8% fees for MoR. MoR is the selling point for me. Everything else…

Why would you trust a startup over Stripe? And what is wrong with Stripe to begin with?

Stripe does not handle taxes for you. Compared to Paddle.com or any other MoR, Stripe is only half way there.
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