Expert insights, guides, and best practices for payment processing, merchant of record services, and building scalable commerce platforms.
The best usage-based billing software for SaaS and AI in 2026: metering engines, billing platforms and merchants of record compared on pricing, tax and fit.
Stripe fees in 2026: 2.9% + 30¢ per card charge, plus international, currency, Billing and Tax fees. See the real all-in cost for a SaaS business.
The best Stripe alternatives for SaaS in 2026, grouped by what you replace: Stripe Billing, tax and seller liability, or the payment processor itself.
Storefront Analytics shows every step from visit to purchase, why checkouts fail, and what each traffic source earns. No cookies and nothing to install.
Compare the best merchant of record providers for 2026 (Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, FastSpring, Comecero and more) on fees, liability, billing depth and fit.
How solo founders should choose a merchant of record for selling software globally: why tax compliance breaks first, what actually matters at small scale, the platforms worth considering, and how to avoid migrating twice.
PayFac vs. ISV explained: what an independent software vendor is, how the referral, revenue-share, and payfac models differ, what each earns per transaction, and how software platforms should decide between them.
A guide to the major payfac companies in 2026: the consumer-facing payment facilitators, the managed payfac providers serving software platforms, how registered payment facilitators differ, and how to choose between them.
PayFac-as-a-Service explained: how managed payment facilitation works, what it costs compared to full registration, the revenue economics for software platforms, and how to tell whether you need it or a merchant of record instead.
PayFac vs. payment processor vs. gateway vs. aggregator vs. merchant of record: what each layer of the payments stack actually does, how they fit together, which ones overlap, and which model your business needs.