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What is Polar?
Polar is an open-source billing and Merchant of Record platform for developers, startups, and digital product businesses. It handles payments, subscriptions, usage-based billing, tax compliance, customer management, checkout, and automated product access.
Who should use Polar?
- You are building SaaS, AI, or another digital product and need billing infrastructure.
- You want a Merchant of Record to handle international tax compliance.
- You need usage-based, subscription, seat-based, credit-based, or one-time pricing.
- You want an API-first payment and billing system designed for developers.
- You want automated delivery of benefits such as license keys, files, GitHub access, or Discord access.
- You prefer an open-source billing platform.
Key Features of Polar
- Merchant of Record
- Global tax compliance
- One-time purchases
- Subscription billing
- Usage-based billing
- Seat-based pricing
- Credits and prepaid balances
- Fixed pricing
- Pay-what-you-want pricing
- Free products
- Hosted checkout
- Embedded checkout
- Checkout API
- Customer portal
- Automated benefits and entitlements
- License key delivery
- Secure digital file delivery
- GitHub repository access
- Discord access
- Usage metering
- Webhooks
- Billing and customer analytics
- Cost and gross-margin insights
- Sandbox environment
Integrations Supported by Polar
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