Welcome to Polar
The Merchant of Record for Developers
Our mission is to get developers paid coding on their passion.
By building the best monetization platform for developers - open source maintainers, indie hackers, builders and startups alike. How?
- Offer a world-class Dashboard, Checkout, API & SDKs designed for developers to make shipping & monetizing easier and faster vs. with PSPs.
- Richer Product & Subscriptions support with built-in automation for common upsales across our ecosystem, e.g file downloads, license keys, Discord roles & invites, GitHub repositories and more.
- Be a Merchant of Record (MoR) provider to reduce headaches, overhead & operations from selling digital services internationally.
- Build Polar open source and in public (Discord & Twitter) together with our community and with exceptional support.
Focus on shipping and leave billing, taxes and headaches to us.
Get up and running in 5 minutes.
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
Integrate Polar in minutes
Built Open Source (Apache 2.0)
- 100% of our product, code and docs available on GitHub
- 36 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)