Connect Lemon Squeezy
Lemon Squeezy, counted as revenue rather than as 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.
The Lemon Squeezy card and its drawer: what Orla reads, what it never does, and the API key it asks for. The credential is tried against Lemon Squeezy before the connection exists, and encrypted once it is accepted, and never returned by the API again.
Merchant of Record
The tax on that order is not your income and never was
Booking the total as revenue inflates your year by the VAT they remit.
- Income is booked from the order subtotal, so the tax they collect never appears as money you earned.
- The day is always re-read in full rather than topped up, so a rollup never holds half a day.
- Refunds subtract from the day they belong to.
What we do not guess
Their platform fee is not in the data, so it is not in your book
They do not expose their cut per order, and we do not estimate it.
- Fees stay at zero on this connection rather than carrying an estimate that would look like a fact.
- The amount that actually reached you shows on the bank side, where it is a real payment with a real figure.
- The Lemon Squeezy account holds nothing: they publish no balance and no payouts, so nothing here pretends to know what is still with them.
The key you give us
Made in your account, checked before it is stored
Settings, then API, then create a key.
- The key is tried against Lemon Squeezy first, so a dead key never reaches the database.
- Encrypted at rest, and never returned by our API again.
- Revoking it in their settings is enough to cut us off, without asking us anything.
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.
Other platforms
Connect Lemon Squeezy, and see the year without their VAT in it
Platforms connect on the paid plans; the free plan keeps the book.
- 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.
- Bandcamp →
- The partner sales report as rows, in the currency each sale happened in.
See it on your own books
Thirty minutes: we connect an account, drop a real bill in, and close a month together.