The detail
What it means in practice.
The merchant of record is the seller on the customer's receipt and the taxpayer for sales tax and VAT wherever it sells. You deliver the product and receive a payout after the service's fee, which is higher than a payment processor's. It needs no US company and no Stripe review, which makes it a common first step for a solo founder abroad selling software.
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Answer the questions. We do the filing.
It takes about four minutes. You see the whole order, state fee included, before anything is charged.
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