Lemon Squeezy
revenue, not turnover
They are a Merchant of Record, so the sales tax was never yours. Income is booked from the order subtotal, never the total. One API key from your own account settings.
What lands in the book
The subtotal
because the tax was never yours
- Subtotal today
- $1,200.00
- Tax they remit
- Not your income
- Platform fee
- Not in the data
- From the subtotal
- The tax they collect never appears as money you earned.
- The whole day, every time
- The day is always re-read in full rather than topped up, so a rollup never holds half a day.
- Refunds on their day
- Refunds subtract from the day they belong to.
- No balance invented
- They publish no balance and no payouts, so the account holds nothing and pretends to know nothing.
What goes by itself
Read every day
and nothing guessed
- Yesterday's ordersBooked from the subtotal
- A refundSubtracted from its own day
- Their feeLeft at zero, not estimated
- What reached youSeen from the bank side
- Fees at zero
- They do not expose their cut per order, and an estimate would look like a fact.
- Nothing sent
- The key reads orders. Nothing is ever paid from Lemon Squeezy.
The key you give us
Made in your account
checked before it is stored
- API key
- ••••••••
- Made in
- Settings, API
- Revoke
- In their settings
- Where to make it
- Settings, then API, then create a key.
- Tried first
- The key is tried against Lemon Squeezy first, so a dead key never reaches the database.
- Encrypted, never shown again
- At rest, and never returned by our API again.
- Yours to cut off
- Revoking it in their settings is enough to cut us off, without asking us anything.
Other platforms
- Stripe →
- One restricted key, with the fees split out and the payouts matched.
- Shopify →
- Sales, Shopify Payments fees and refunds apart, plus the balance still held.
- PayPal →
- Sales, refunds and payouts as earnings; what you spend from the same PayPal is left alone.
- Gumroad →
- Every sale with its price and Gumroad's cut as separate figures.
On autopilot
What goes by itself
and what still waits for you
Goes by itself
- A bill or a payout inside its budget in the mandate
- From Airwallex, PayPal or the account inside Orla
- An agent's card or API spend inside its cap
Waits for you
- A new payee, and bank details that changed
- Anything past a budget or a limit
- Every payment from Mercury, Slash, a Safe or a wallet you sign
The brakes above both
- $2,000 a payment and $10,000 a day until you change them
- Loosening a limit waits 24 to 72 hours
- One pause stops every payment at once
Questions
The questions people ask before they connect it
Why is my income lower here than the order total?
Because Lemon Squeezy is a Merchant of Record: they collect and remit the sales tax on that order, and it was never your money. Income is booked from the subtotal, so your year is not inflated by whatever VAT your customers happened to pay.
Why are the fees zero?
Their platform fee is not exposed per order. We could estimate it from the published rate, and an estimate in a ledger looks exactly like a fact. Instead fees stay at zero here and the amount that actually reached you shows on the bank side.
Does it hold a balance?
No. They publish no balance and no payouts, so the account holds nothing and the money counts once, when it lands in your bank.
Connect Lemon Squeezy
and see the year without their VAT in it
Platforms connect on the paid plans; the free plan keeps the book.