Lemon Squeezy vs Sellwire

Lemon Squeezy is an all-in-one platform for SaaS businesses selling digital downloads, subscriptions, and software licenses. It says it acts as merchant of record for digital sales taxes and compliance. Merchants can embed no-code checkout forms on an existing site or share checkout links; its no-code and API solutions support 20+ payment methods and global bank payouts. Subscription billing can run weekly, monthly, or yearly, with management for upgrades, downgrades, cancellations, and free trials. The platform can issue software license keys and provides signed, throttled download links. Lemon Squeezy says its fraud protections use machine learning and real-time analytics to identify suspicious transactions. Its REST API documentation states a limit of 300 calls per minute, and documented integrations include ConvertKit, Mailchimp, and Zapier. Ecommerce has no monthly charge and costs 5% + $0.50 per transaction when sales are generated, with sales tax collection and remittance included. Email marketing is free for up to 500 subscribers. Lemon Squeezy was founded in 2019.

Sellwire lets sellers offer downloadable digital goods through product links, handling checkout and file delivery. Sellers upload products such as plugins, scripts, ebooks, songs, videos, or photos, but remain responsible for having a store or website. Customers can access earlier versions of files and receive alerts when sellers add a new version. Sellwire provides order tracking, receipt pages, per-file and overall reports, and a six-month breakdown report. Sellers can set fixed or percentage discounts with time or redemption limits, offer product upgrades, and generate software license keys with renewals and API validation. PayPal and Stripe are supported, and Sellwire says it adds no fees on top of those processors. The service lists EU VAT MOSS support and reporting for VAT MOSS and EC Sales List for B2B sales. Its free plan is free and allows one file. Solo is $9 a month, Agency is $29 a month, and Enterprise is $89 a month. The maximum file size is 300MB, which the FAQ says makes the service a poor fit for large files such as videos.