Stripe Managed Payments is Stripe's merchant of record solution.
2026-05-24
tax/MoR
high
“Stripe merchant of record solution”
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Verified 2026-05-24
Stripe Managed Payments
Stripe's MoR offering bundled with Stripe Tax. Targets digital goods and software with familiar Stripe APIs.
True Merchant of Record MoR / reseller
Link is shown as merchant of record to customers.
2026-05-24
tax/MoR
high
“The customer sees Link as the merchant of record”
Important for profile copy: customer-facing seller may be Link.
Managed Payments handles tax in supported countries.
2026-05-24
tax/MoR
high
“Calculates and collects the correct tax amount”
Tax coverage has country exceptions.
Managed Payments supports digital products including SaaS/software/downloads.
2026-05-24
eligibility
high
“SaaS, software, and digital content or downloads”
Official overview.
Managed Payments supports online courses and training.
2026-05-24
eligibility
high
“Online courses and training”
Eligible product categories.
Managed Payments does not support marketplaces/platforms.
2026-05-24
eligibility limit
high
“not through a platform or marketplace”
Also says Connect/platform integrations are unsupported.
Managed Payments does not support consulting/professional services.
2026-05-24
eligibility limit
high
“Professional services, such as consulting”
Human intervention/live 1:1 coaching also disqualifies products.
Managed Payments pricing is 3.5% in addition to Payments fees.
2026-05-24
pricing
medium
“3.5% per successful Managed Payments transaction”
Pricing page may localize by country; verify account-region pricing.
Caveats
- • Confirm access, because Stripe determines eligibility by business review and geography.
- • Confirm country-specific tax-coverage exceptions, especially Japan/Singapore domestic rules and unsupported countries.
- • Confirm whether a specific AI product qualifies under eligible tax codes.
Accepted or likely accepted
- SaaS Accepted
- Downloadable software Accepted
- AI tools Accepted
- Mobile apps Likely accepted
- Online courses Likely accepted
- Digital downloads Likely accepted
- Ebooks Likely accepted
- Templates Likely accepted
Risky, refused or unclear
- 1:1 coaching Refused
- Group coaching Likely refused
- Consulting Refused
- Marketplaces Refused
- Physical goods Refused
Unclear
- Communities Unclear
Tax coverage
- EU VAT
- Yes
- UK VAT
- Yes
- US sales tax
- Yes
- Canada GST/HST
- Yes
- Australia GST
- Yes
Stripe acts as MoR for managed digital products; eligibility per category — verify.
Product features
- Hosted checkout
- Yes
- API
- Yes
- Subscriptions
- Yes
- One-time payments
- Yes
- Installments
- No
- Usage-based billing
- Yes
- Refund handling
- Yes
- Chargebacks
- Yes
- Affiliate system
- No
Geography and payouts
- Seller countries
- Sellers in supported Stripe countries.
- Customer countries
- Sells in Stripe-supported markets.
- Payout countries
- Standard Stripe payouts.
- Payout currencies
- Stripe-supported currencies.
Source links
- Managed Payments docs
- Stripe Tax tax
Information missing?
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