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Welcome to Polar

Focus on shipping. We'll focus on the infrastructure to get you paid - from first donation to IPO.

Features

  • GitHub Login & Official funding partner (FUNDING.yaml)
  • Funding
    • Accept one-off donations
    • Crowdfunding behind GitHub issues - beautifully embedded
    • Reward contributors to funded issues
  • Commercialization (Sponsorware to SaaS)
    • Pay once digital products, or...
    • Recurring subscriptions (monthly/annual)
    • Built-in & powerfully automated product & subscription benefits, e.g License Keys, File Downloads, GitHub Repo(s) access, Discord access and more.
  • Polar is the Merchant of Record (MOR) handling billing, sales tax & EU VAT.
  • Beautiful Polar page out of the box (official GitHub funding link) or...
  • API & SDK for seamless integrations across docs, sites & services

You'll be up and running in 5 minutes. Let's get started.

Built Open Source (Apache 2.0)

  • 100% of our product, code and docs available on GitHub
  • 19 contributors and growing (Contributions welcome)
  • Feature requests, feedback and issues - all in public
  • Self-hosting while possible is not supported or encouraged (no MOR benefits)

Pricing

  • No fixed, monthly, costs
  • 4% + 40¢ on transactions - we earn when you do
  • Some payments may be subject to additional fees
  • Large or fast-growing business? Reach out to us for volume discounts

Why Polar vs. X?

There are a lot of options out there. So why use Polar?

Supported countries

Polar is built on Stripe Connect and currently supports the following list of countries for payouts:

  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Bulgaria
  • Canada
  • Croatia
  • Cyprus
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Malta
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • United Kingdom
  • United States