Web Checkout by Paddle - The smart alternative to in-app payments

Hey Product Hunt! 👋🏼

Super excited to share what the Paddle team has been cooking up for the app community!

With the US App Store now open to external payments for in-app purchases, app developers are buzzing about the potential to avoid Apple’s 30% commission & significantly grow their margins.

But we’ve also heard that building new web infra for an external checkout and making it play nice with your app’s codebase isn’t easy.

So we raced to build two new tools that make it effortless to set-up your first external payment flow & connect it to your app - and trust me when I say this - the Paddle team has been burning the candle at both ends to get this shipped 🕯️

So what are we launching? Hosted Checkouts & our Checkout Starter Kit Vercel template:

🌐 Hosted Checkouts lets you build a web checkout right from the Paddle dashboard – no coding required. Just fill in a few fields and hit deploy. Paddle hosts the checkout on a custom URL that you can link to right from your app’s paywall.

⚙️ Checkout Starter Kit has all the code you need for a working web checkout, in a Vercel template. Extend or customize it as much as you like; then click “deploy” to go live – Vercel deploys it on your own domain, that you can link to from your app.

The best part is they’re both built on Paddle, so you also get the world’s best Merchant of Record automating away the pain of global payments.

Chargebacks? Fraud? Billing support? Global tax remittance? Paddle's got your back here (just like the App Store does) so you’re not stuck with a sudden burden when you add external payment methods, and become responsible for these things yourself :)

Excited to hear what the app community thinks! What should we build next?

All the best for the launch @gavin_dove1 & team!

Hosted checkouts are here! This would be awesome :)

Why only get payment management from another source when you can get so many more useful things as a small + scaling app builder? Taxes are something easily overlooked until it hits you in the face. I would rather have Paddle help me with that from the start!

Hey PH fam! 👋

This is HUGE for the app community and I'm genuinely excited to be hunt this launch! 🚀

The 30% Apple commission has been every app developer's nightmare 💸 - and that's before you factor in losing all your customer data and relationship to Apple's black box. Seeing Paddle move this fast to solve such a real pain point is incredible.

Here's why this matters: The recent US App Store court ruling is a game-changer because now you are able to use external checkouts beyond Apple, but most devs I know have been stuck on the "how do I actually build this?" part.

Paddle just removed ALL the friction.

What I love about this launch:

→ Hosted Checkouts = A quick low code solution right from Paddle's dashboard 🖥️

→ Vercel template = developer-friendly with full customization and easy to deploy ⚡️

→ Paddle as MoR = You don't inherit the nightmare of global compliance 🙏

The timing couldn't be better. App developers are literally sitting on potential margin gains but need the infrastructure to capture it.

I've seen our Paddle team ship consistently great products, but this feels different - they spotted a massive market shift and built the exact tools developers need to capitalize on it.

For any app founders reading this: if you've been hesitant about external payments because of the technical complexity, this is your moment ⚡

Gavin, me and a few of us from Paddle are here all day - drop your questions below! Excited to see how many apps unlock better margins with this 📈

Great launch guys!!

will use this for Actor AI Assistant https://actordo.com
Apple fees were huge!