🆚 Paddle vs. PayKickstart

Type

Online payment service
E-commerce platform

About

Paddle is a software-as-a-service commerce platform that provides payments, tax compliance and subscription infrastructure for software companies.

It acts as the merchant of record, handling global sales tax collection and remittance across 200+ markets, supports hosted and inline checkouts, one-time and recurring billing, offers developer APIs and webhooks for subscription lifecycle events, and provides reporting on MRR, churn, and ARR.

PayKickstart is a multi-featured subscription billing and affiliate management solution that allows you to sell courses, software and other digital products.

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom
Wake Forest, North Carolina, United States

Website

Pricing

Payment processing 5% + 50¢/transaction
Payout fees
Via PayPal Subject to PayPal fees
Via Payoneer Subject to Payoneer fees
Wire Transfers
In the same currency $0
Via SWIFT $/€/£15
Free version ❌Free 14-day trial
Starter $99/month
Growth $199/month

Categories

Online Payments › Rank #28
Online Payments › Rank #119
Subscriptions › Rank #11
Subscriptions › Rank #33
E-Commerce › Rank #226

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Paddle online payment service is 21 times more popular than PayKickstart.
Total websites

Market share

Online Payments
Subscriptions

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Paddle is more popular than PayKickstart in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
India
France
Netherlands
Australia
Poland
Bangladesh
Canada

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Paddle is more popular than PayKickstart in all market segments.
Internet Services
Business
Software/Hardware
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Interactive Web Applications
Entertainment
Games

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#1,030
#1,458
#3,975
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Name
Rank
#177,551
#254,116
#301,730
#672,415
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See also

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