I'm a Paddle vendor too, and they have been good! As a solo EU founder, having to do near zero accountancy is a huge deal that Stripe can't (currently) offer.
That said, I wish they'd improve their API. It's very limited, poorly designed in some places and extraordinarily slow in others. The checkout & tools are good enough that you can ignore it for a long time, but eventually you want to integrate with it and it's a massive pain.
Definitely the worst part of the product, and simultaneously the best thing about Stripe, which does occasionally tempt me to jump ship...
> It's very limited, poorly designed in some places and extraordinarily slow in others.
Which parts? I do remember the docs being quite sparse when I was doing the initial integration. Most of my support questions about "how do you do X with the API?" were answered quickly but the answer was often "you can't" for a few surprising things (like grabbing a subscription via email lookup but maybe this has changed). Saying that, once I had it set up I haven't had to touch it and haven't had any issues, but my needs aren't that complex. A basic portal to let users check and edit their subscriptions would be nice though instead of everyone having to build this themselves.
That said, I wish they'd improve their API. It's very limited, poorly designed in some places and extraordinarily slow in others. The checkout & tools are good enough that you can ignore it for a long time, but eventually you want to integrate with it and it's a massive pain.
Definitely the worst part of the product, and simultaneously the best thing about Stripe, which does occasionally tempt me to jump ship...