Stripe alternatives
Alternatives to Stripe include Paddle, PayPal Enterprise Payments, Square, Adyen, Helcim, and Airwallex, each offering different benefits depending on your business needs.
- Paddle / Lemon Squeezy: Ideal for digital products and software (SaaS), they act as a Merchant of Record, managing global sales tax, VAT, and compliance.
- PayPal Enterprise Payments (formerly Braintree): A developer-friendly option with robust APIs and support for popular digital wallets like PayPal and Venmo.
- Square: Suitable for businesses blending online and in-person sales, offering free point-of-sale (POS) hardware and software integrations.
- Adyen: Recommended for large global enterprises, using direct-to-bank infrastructure for high authorization rates and fast processing.
- Helcim: Ideal for high-volume savings, offering automatic volume-based interchange pricing that reduces transaction costs as sales grow.
- Airwallex: Suitable for cross-border businesses, allowing creation of multi-currency local bank accounts for global transactions with low conversion fees.
- Skydo: An RBI-authorised cross-border payments platform for Indian freelancers, exporters and small businesses, enabling them to receive payments from international clients into their Indian bank account.