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Anthropic turned eight months of threat intelligence into a public report. Why every startup should document what it learns, plus v1.113.28: Reports, grace periods, and blocklists....
A practical guide to AP2, the Agent Payments Protocol: checkout and payment mandates, open versus closed authorization, verifiable digital credentials, and what it means for merchants....
Compare 7 Lago billing alternatives across open-source and hosted options, weighing self-hosting cost, metering depth, and Merchant of Record coverage for SaaS and AI teams....
Compare 7 m3ter alternatives on pricing transparency, usage metering depth, quote-to-cash fit, and Merchant of Record coverage for B2B SaaS and AI companies....
A technical guide to the x402 protocol: how the HTTP 402 payment handshake works, the PAYMENT-REQUIRED and PAYMENT-SIGNATURE headers, facilitators, payment schemes, and where x402 fits next to card rails....
Outbid.lol turned a 3-hour build into $220K and a million visitors. Why small ideas scale, plus v1.113.6: subscription pause, PPP, and Charm Pricing....
Compare the best GoCardless alternatives for direct debit and recurring billing. Verified 2026 pricing, international coverage, and merchant of record options....
Compare the best Memberstack alternatives for auth, gated content and member billing. Verified 2026 pricing, transaction fees, and global tax handling....
Compare the best Mollie alternatives for European payments. Verified 2026 pricing, local payment methods, payout fees, and merchant of record options....
Compare the best RevenueCat alternatives for mobile subscription management. Verified 2026 pricing, web checkout options, and how to cut app store fees....
Compare the best Teachable alternatives for selling online courses. Verified 2026 pricing, transaction fees, and which platform handles global tax for you....
Compare the best Worldpay alternatives for online payments. Contract terms, monthly fees, settlement times, and merchant of record options explained....
Compare the best Xsolla alternatives for game payments and web shops. Merchant of record coverage, global tax handling, and payout terms explained....
Whop's headline 2.7% + 30¢ climbs toward 7% once FX and payout fees stack. Compare seven alternatives with verified 2026 pricing and pick the right fit....
Recurly vs Stripe for subscriptions: compare Recurly's $249 + 0.9% against Stripe Billing's 0.7%, find the crossover volumes, and see what neither one covers....
Chargebee vs Recurly in 2026: compare Chargebee's 0.80% pay-as-you-go against Recurly's $249 + 0.9% Starter plan, with the exact volumes where each becomes cheaper....
A plain-English PSD3 and PSR guide for SaaS founders: where the legislation stands in 2026, what changes on fraud liability and SCA, and what it means for checkout....
Polar vs Stripe in 2026: compare Polar's tiered MoR plans from 5% + 50¢ down to 3.4% + 30¢ against Stripe's 2.9% + 30¢ PSP model, plus tax and usage billing....
Lemon Squeezy vs Stripe in 2026: compare the 5% + 50¢ MoR model against Stripe's 2.9% + 30¢ PSP pricing, plus what Stripe Managed Payments changes for both....
TikTok explores payments in DMs and Venmo moves into tuition. Why founders should offer the payment methods customers already trust, plus v1.112.0 updates....
Compare the best Kajabi alternatives in 2026 for courses, memberships and digital products, covering platform cost, payment ownership, and global tax coverage....
Compare the best Mighty Networks alternatives for paid communities in 2026, covering monthly cost, member billing control, global tax handling, and best-fit use cases....
Compare the best Substack alternatives for paid newsletters in 2026, covering revenue share, payment ownership, global tax handling, and who each platform actually suits....
Compare the best Thinkific alternatives for selling online courses in 2026, covering platform fees, checkout control, global tax handling, and the best fit for each seller....
AI-assisted attacks move from lab tests into real incidents, including Taiwan. Plus v1.112.0: rebuilt webhooks, flexible discount codes, Cash App Pay, and SEPA....
Compare the best Razorpay alternatives for Indian companies selling worldwide, including Dodo Payments, PayPal, Cashfree, PayU, and Payoneer, with verified fees and tax ownership....
An unauthorised party exploited CVE-2026-72898 in a Metabase instance used for internal reporting. Payments, card data, funds and credentials were unaffected....
A practical comparison of ThriveCart alternatives for course creators and digital sellers, covering the Pro+ sales tax paywall and where the $495 lifetime licence still wins....
Compare Buy Me a Coffee alternatives with the real stacked fee math, the global tax liability gap most creators miss, and which platform fits memberships and digital products....
SendOwl plans cap your annual sales and your monthly bandwidth. Here is what those limits mean for digital sellers, plus five SendOwl alternatives compared in detail....
Anrok charges per market per month. Here is what a market actually costs, how the math scales across states and countries, and five Anrok alternatives compared....
A practical look at TaxJar alternatives in 2026, covering AutoFile credit costs, the US-only filing scope, the Stripe ownership question, and five options to compare....
Compare Avalara alternatives for SaaS and digital sellers in 2026, including per-state cost scaling, quote-only enterprise pricing, and who actually carries the tax liability....
How credit card surcharging works, where it is legal, what the card network caps and disclosure rules require, and better alternatives for SaaS pricing....
How reverse charge VAT works on cross-border B2B software sales, when it applies, what your invoice must say, and why VAT number validation matters....
What KYB verification involves, which documents payment providers request, why beneficial ownership matters, and how to pass business verification first time....
What a sales tax exemption certificate is, when a B2B SaaS buyer can claim one, how to validate and store it, and what happens in an audit if you cannot....
Our AI-enhanced office photos hit 11M views and a Community Note. Plus v1.112.0: amount discount codes, rebuilt webhooks, Cash App Pay, and SEPA Direct Debit....
How pay by bank and account-to-account payments work, what they cost compared with cards, and where they fit in a global SaaS checkout....
Comparing Fungies.io alternatives for SaaS, game, and digital product sellers. Includes verified pricing, provider risk criteria, and a step-by-step card token migration path that keeps active subscriptions billing....
Why payment providers classify a business as high risk, what a high risk merchant account actually costs, and which alternatives work for digital sellers....
What the W-8BEN and W-8BEN-E forms are, when a non-US software business actually needs one, how treaty benefits cut withholding, and who collects the form....