Storefront and checkout for digital products, license keys and subscriptions, with payments going straight to your own Stripe or PayPal account
- Deploy
- One-click
- License
- Apache-2.0
- GitHub stars
- 22 stars
- Last commit
Self-hosted alternatives to Lemon Squeezy
Lemon Squeezy is a hosted payments, tax and subscription platform for selling software and digital products, acting as merchant of record. One listed app does its main job and runs in your own Cloudflare account.
Each answer comes from the app’s README and source code, compared with the features Lemon Squeezy describes on its own site.
Lemon Squeezy features, app by app
| Feature | Paymug |
|---|---|
| Merchant of record with sales tax handling | No |
| Checkout links and overlays | Partly |
| Digital downloads | Yes |
| Software license keys | Yes |
| Subscriptions and recurring billing | Yes |
| Affiliates | Partly |
| Email marketing | Partly |
| Online storefront | Yes |
Storefront and checkout for digital products, license keys and subscriptions, with payments going straight to your own Stripe or PayPal account
- What a Lemon Squeezy user would miss
- Paymug is not a merchant of record, so sales tax is yours to handle, and affiliates and email marketing need the paid Pro license.
- What it adds
- Payments go straight to your own Stripe or PayPal account with no platform fee, and buyers can be given access to a private GitHub repository.
- No Merchant of record with sales tax handling. Payments go to your own Stripe or PayPal account; tax is yours.
- Partly Checkout links and overlays. A hosted checkout link for each product, no embeddable overlay listed.
- Yes Digital downloads. Files stored in R2 and delivered after payment.
- Yes Software license keys. License keys delivered after payment.
- Yes Subscriptions and recurring billing. Subscriptions through Stripe or PayPal.
- Partly Affiliates. An affiliate system comes with the paid Pro license.
- Partly Email marketing. Email campaigns and automations come with the paid Pro license.
- Yes Online storefront. Storefront homepage with all published products.
Sources:github.com/Paymug/paymug#featurespaymug.coworkersnative.directory/api/apps/paymug