Lemon Squeezy

API

Merchant of record for selling subscriptions and digital products

Price: Fee per transaction
Access: API key

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About

Merchant of record for digital products and SaaS, with checkouts, subscriptions, license keys and tax handling. Its 2026 update names Stripe Managed Payments as the way forward and promises a migration path.

What you can do with it

Sell products and SaaS subscriptions with hosted or overlay checkouts
Activate and validate license keys for your software
Hand off sales tax and VAT collection to a merchant of record

Get started

Create a store
Create an API key in test mode

Example

curl "https://api.lemonsqueezy.com/v1/users/me" \
  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.api+json' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LEMONSQUEEZY_API_KEY"

Details

Hosting: Hosted service
Available in: Worldwide
Official SDKs: JavaScript/TypeScript, PHP
MCP server: None