Web Checkout by Paddle - The smart alternative to in-app payments
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Direct your app users to external checkouts and bypass Apple's fees. Choose Paddle-managed Hosted Checkouts or Vercel-built Starter Kit. Take advantage of lower fees, more control & faster growth with Paddle — a Merchant of Record trusted by 6,000+ companies.
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Hey PH fam! 👋
This is HUGE for the app community and I'm genuinely excited to be hunt this launch! 🚀
The 30% Apple commission has been every app developer's nightmare 💸 - and that's before you factor in losing all your customer data and relationship to Apple's black box. Seeing Paddle move this fast to solve such a real pain point is incredible.
Here's why this matters: The recent US App Store court ruling is a game-changer because now you are able to use external checkouts beyond Apple, but most devs I know have been stuck on the "how do I actually build this?" part.
Paddle just removed ALL the friction.
What I love about this launch:
→ Hosted Checkouts = A quick low code solution right from Paddle's dashboard 🖥️
→ Vercel template = developer-friendly with full customization and easy to deploy ⚡️
→ Paddle as MoR = You don't inherit the nightmare of global compliance 🙏
The timing couldn't be better. App developers are literally sitting on potential margin gains but need the infrastructure to capture it.
I've seen our Paddle team ship consistently great products, but this feels different - they spotted a massive market shift and built the exact tools developers need to capitalize on it.
For any app founders reading this: if you've been hesitant about external payments because of the technical complexity, this is your moment ⚡
Gavin, me and a few of us from Paddle are here all day - drop your questions below! Excited to see how many apps unlock better margins with this 📈
this is such a stand out feature. for those not in the mobile app game, being able to do external check outs makes a big difference to our business and having paddle make this a smooth process is a game changer - at Clippit, we'll be signing up!
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Finally, A Stripe alternative!!
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Payment routing solutions require careful compliance architecture-balancing fee optimization with platform policies through PCI-compliant tunneling and smart deep linking.
Great to see the constant improvement to the platform 🚀🚀
I checked out Paddle’s external checkout options and they’re a game-changer — letting me bypass Apple’s fees while keeping full control over the experience. Whether it’s the hosted checkout or the Vercel starter kit, it’s fast, flexible, and built for growth. Definitely worth it for scaling apps.