Tested, then written
Guides for WooCommerce stores and people who sell software. Each one rests on something we measured, built or broke, and says how we did it.
- Selling software
Merchant of record, explained: what it takes off you, and which ones work with WooCommerce
What a merchant of record does and doesn't do for a software seller, what Polar, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, Stripe Managed Payments and Freemius really cost at $1k, $10k and $50k a month, and which of them you can use from a WooCommerce store.
- Selling software
Payments via Polar now works with Easy Digital Downloads
A new Easy Digital Downloads payment gateway for Polar, the merchant of record that handles sales tax and VAT worldwide: what it does, what it checks, what it doesn't do yet, and how it was tested.
- Media storage
What Cloudflare R2 really costs for a WordPress site
Cloudflare R2 pricing worked out for a real WordPress media library: what one upload stores, the monthly cost against S3, CloudFront, Backblaze B2 and your host's disk at three store sizes, the one-off cost of moving, and a calculator for your own numbers.
- Selling software
Stripe isn't available in your country? How to sell software to the world anyway
From Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and other countries Stripe doesn't support: which payment routes work, what a $79 sale leaves you on each, when the money arrives, and the mistakes that freeze accounts.