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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.

Integrate Polar in minutes

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:

  • 🇦🇱Albania
  • 🇩🇿Algeria
  • 🇦🇴Angola
  • 🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda
  • 🇦🇷Argentina
  • 🇦🇲Armenia
  • 🇦🇺Australia
  • 🇦🇹Austria
  • 🇦🇿Azerbaijan
  • 🇧🇸Bahamas
  • 🇧🇭Bahrain
  • 🇧🇩Bangladesh
  • 🇧🇪Belgium
  • 🇧🇯Benin
  • 🇧🇹Bhutan
  • 🇧🇴Bolivia
  • 🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • 🇧🇼Botswana
  • 🇧🇳Brunei
  • 🇧🇬Bulgaria
  • 🇰🇭Cambodia
  • 🇨🇦Canada
  • 🇨🇱Chile
  • 🇨🇴Colombia
  • 🇨🇷Costa Rica
  • 🇭🇷Croatia
  • 🇨🇾Cyprus
  • 🇨🇿Czech Republic
  • 🇩🇰Denmark
  • 🇩🇴Dominican Republic
  • 🇪🇨Ecuador
  • 🇪🇬Egypt
  • 🇸🇻El Salvador
  • 🇪🇪Estonia
  • 🇪🇹Ethiopia
  • 🇫🇮Finland
  • 🇫🇷France
  • 🇬🇦Gabon
  • 🇬🇲Gambia
  • 🇩🇪Germany
  • 🇬🇭Ghana
  • 🇬🇷Greece
  • 🇬🇹Guatemala
  • 🇬🇾Guyana
  • 🇭🇰Hong Kong
  • 🇭🇺Hungary
  • 🇮🇸Iceland
  • 🇮🇳India
  • 🇮🇩Indonesia
  • 🇮🇪Ireland
  • 🇮🇱Israel
  • 🇮🇹Italy
  • 🇨🇮Ivory Coast
  • 🇯🇲Jamaica
  • 🇯🇵Japan
  • 🇯🇴Jordan
  • 🇰🇿Kazakhstan
  • 🇰🇪Kenya
  • 🇰🇼Kuwait
  • 🇱🇦Laos
  • 🇱🇻Latvia
  • 🇱🇮Liechtenstein
  • 🇱🇹Lithuania
  • 🇱🇺Luxembourg
  • 🇲🇴Macao
  • 🇲🇬Madagascar
  • 🇲🇾Malaysia
  • 🇲🇹Malta
  • 🇲🇺Mauritius
  • 🇲🇽Mexico
  • 🇲🇩Moldova
  • 🇲🇨Monaco
  • 🇲🇳Mongolia
  • 🇲🇦Morocco
  • 🇲🇿Mozambique
  • 🇳🇦Namibia
  • 🇳🇱Netherlands
  • 🇳🇿New Zealand
  • 🇳🇪Niger
  • 🇳🇬Nigeria
  • 🇲🇰North Macedonia
  • 🇳🇴Norway
  • 🇴🇲Oman
  • 🇵🇰Pakistan
  • 🇵🇦Panama
  • 🇵🇾Paraguay
  • 🇵🇪Peru
  • 🇵🇭Philippines
  • 🇵🇱Poland
  • 🇵🇹Portugal
  • 🇶🇦Qatar
  • 🇷🇴Romania
  • 🇷🇼Rwanda
  • 🇱🇨Saint Lucia
  • 🇸🇲San Marino
  • 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
  • 🇸🇳Senegal
  • 🇷🇸Serbia
  • 🇸🇬Singapore
  • 🇸🇰Slovakia
  • 🇸🇮Slovenia
  • 🇿🇦South Africa
  • 🇰🇷South Korea
  • 🇪🇸Spain
  • 🇱🇰Sri Lanka
  • 🇸🇪Sweden
  • 🇨🇭Switzerland
  • 🇹🇼Taiwan
  • 🇹🇿Tanzania
  • 🇹🇭Thailand
  • 🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago
  • 🇹🇳Tunisia
  • 🇹🇷Turkey
  • 🇦🇪United Arab Emirates
  • 🇬🇧United Kingdom
  • 🇺🇸United States
  • 🇺🇾Uruguay
  • 🇺🇿Uzbekistan
  • 🇻🇳Vietnam