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With the launch of Managed Payments, Stripe began acting as a merchant of record in April 2025, but only for a narrow subset of transactions. Its eligibility rules exclude more...

June’s release is about localization, recovery, and refinement. Makers get more ways to sell in the currencies and languages their buyers expect, more control over trial cancellation emails and license...

One free user asks a short question and costs you almost nothing. Another uploads a long document, triggers several model calls, and turns your “generous” free tier into an $18...

Whether your AI app is built on top of an existing model has nothing to do with whether users will pay for it. That worry just costs you time because...

You can launch a SaaS and accept payments globally in a matter of hours. But every new market brings tax, invoicing, and compliance rules that your checkout does not handle...

The moment people are ready to pay, your AI app stops being just a prototype. Now comes the part that feels riskier than shipping the product itself: adding payments without...

For the better part of a decade, Bram van der Giessen worked on software where performance problems have nowhere to hide. Most recently, that meant streaming: keeping video running smoothly...

You shipped your product, you’re ready to charge for it, and now you need a payment setup that won’t turn into a compliance nightmare the moment you sell outside your...

May’s release is about reach. RTL language support at checkout and in transactional emails gives makers selling in local markets a checkout and email experience that matches the rest of...

You pick a payment platform, integrate it, and ship. Then you find out your product violates their acceptable use policy. Payment platform restrictions for AI apps are one of the...

You built an AI app, people are using it, and now you need a pricing model that can survive real usage. The problem? Most pricing guides are written for funded...

The ideal merchant of record provider evolves with your SaaS company’s growth, offering features optimized for distinct needs across various stages. Selecting an unsuitable provider can lead to outgrowing your...

Choosing the wrong merchant of record can cost you far more than a higher transaction fee — fund freezes, account limits, surprise compliance issues in your target markets, contracts designed...

April’s release improves the experience on both sides of the transaction — for the makers building on Freemius and the buyers using their products. App makers get more native tooling....

On April 13, 2026, Lovable launched Lovable Payments: a built-in way to handle subscriptions and one-off payments through Paddle or Stripe. It’s a helpful step forward, especially for makers who...

Lovable Payments is Lovable’s built-in monetization feature. It lets you add subscriptions and one-time payments to any Lovable app using Stripe or Paddle without setting up a separate payment account...

What does it actually take to monetize a Lovable app from scratch? Not much, it turns out. With Freemius’ Lovable integration, the full setup — pricing page, checkout, paywalls, subscription...

March’s release opens a door. The Lovable integration brings Freemius monetization to a new generation of makers building with AI. Anyone with an idea can now go from vibe coding...

Getting your SaaS go-to-market strategy right without a budget doesn’t mean doing everything on a smaller scale. It means doing one thing well. The three motions that work for early-stage...

A SaaS lifetime deal can fund your next three months of development or drain the next three years of it. The difference comes down to how it’s structured before launch....