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 File Downloads, GitHub Repo(s) access, Discord access, Premium newsletter and more.
- Newsletters
- Write posts with code highlighting + using GitHub flavoured markdown
- Free, premium or early access posts (premium until set date)
- 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
- 5% + 0¢ on transactions - we earn when you do
- + Payment & Payout fees (Stripe, Open Collective)
Why Polar vs. X?
There are a lot of options out there. So why use Polar?
- We're the Merchant of Record and handle Sales tax & EU VAT so you don't have to
- Built-in benefits to upsell designed for the developer ecosystem, e.g Discord invites, GitHub repository access, premium newsletter, file downloads and more.
- Official GitHub funding.yaml option
- Newsletter is built-in vs. a costly add-on
- Powerful API & built 100% open source for the developer ecosystem
- Transparent pricing. No games or schemes. Others say 5%, but apply it to the full amount including VAT. We don't - you deserve not to get squeezed.
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