Aquadratic vs Tebex

Aquadratic is a merchant of record for selling digital products. It handles payment, product delivery, tax compliance, fraud protection, and payouts for independent creators, developers, and digital product suppliers. Sellers can provide a hosted checkout, an embeddable widget, or REST API access. After payment, the service can email license keys and digital products. Listed payment methods include cards through Stripe, PayPal, and cryptocurrency; named processing integrations are Stripe, PayPal, and NOWPayments. Aquadratic says it calculates, collects, and files sales tax and VAT worldwide, and manages disputes and chargebacks. The core platform has no monthly fee and costs nothing, billed at 7% per transaction; processor fees may apply. AquaDrop Starter is free, while AquaDrop Pro is $19 a month and AquaDrop Scale is $49 a month. Aquadratic says payment data is primarily handled by processors, and that it does not store complete card numbers. Its support response time is 24–48 business hours.

Tebex provides storefronts and payment processing for digital goods sold by game servers and studios. Its in-game stores and webstores can offer items, subscriptions, season passes, and DLCs, with options to customize the storefront. Developers can connect through Webstore Builder, Headless API, or Checkout API; the latter requires prior compliance approval and is not available to some user-generated-content creators, including FiveM and RedM creators. Tebex lists more than 130 local and global payment methods and says it acts as Merchant of Record, handling sales-tax calculation, collection, and remittance. Fraud detection and chargeback handling are included, and Tebex says it manages disputes. Official server plugins cover Minecraft, Hytale, Rust, ARK, and FiveM, which also has a built-in integration. The free Starter plan has a 5% platform fee for most games and 15% for FiveM. Plus costs £12.49/mo. New stores receive a free 90-day Plus trial without providing payment details.