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Lemon Squeezy

Digital product sales acting as merchant of record, so it handles tax.

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Counts, not a score. 8 of 8 things we look for are published by Lemon Squeezy. A ratio would need a denominator from outside this site. A count does not.

What it costs you

What it really costs to startAll in, not the first-year promotional price.Free to open a store: $0/month, no card and no contract required. The only entry cost is the 5% + 50c fee taken per transaction.Cost to start · source · checked 2026-09-07

What it costs to keep alivePer year, once the introductory pricing is over.No monthly fee. Running cost is the 5% + 50c platform fee per sale, plus +1.5% international, +1.5% PayPal and +0.5% subscription surcharges.Ongoing platform fee · source · checked 2026-09-07

The gate before the first cent

The gate before it pays anythingThe traffic, sales or balance you must reach before a single cent moves.$50 minimum payout threshold. Below it the balance stays Pending and rolls into the next payout cycle.Payout threshold · source · checked 2026-09-07

How long before the first paymentThe gap you have to fund out of your own pocket.Net sales are held 13 days, released on the 14th and 28th of the month, then 1-5 days more to land in the bank.Payout lag · source · checked 2026-09-07

Is it yours or theirs

Who owns what you buildYours, or a room you are allowed to sit in until the rules change?The store sits on a Lemon Squeezy sub-domain by default; any custom URL must be bought, owned and maintained by the seller.Store domain · source · checked 2026-09-07

Can you take it with youThe domain, the list, the content. What actually leaves with you.The export window closes with the account: after termination there is no access to the service or the data stored in it.Export window · source · checked 2026-09-07

Can it be soldIs there a resale market, and what does it pay?The account is not freely sellable: assignment needs Lemon Squeezy's prior written consent and its review and approval of the buyer.Account transfer · source · checked 2026-09-07

What takes it all awayThe single rule, ban or dependency that ends it overnight.Single-vendor dependency: store, checkout, customer list and payouts all sit with one entity, now trading as Link, LLC, formerly Lemon Squeezy LLC.Counterparty entity · source · checked 2026-09-07

How to read this page

The ten things above are not our idea of what matters. They are what the checklists in twenty hand-written articles on this site already asked, counted up: country and eligibility came first in nineteen of them, waiting time and what you are paid in came next. The payout minimum, the number most people search for, barely appeared. It is one row here, not the headline.

A row marked not publishedmeans we opened the company's own pages looking for it and it was not there. That is a finding, and it is dated. A row marked not checked yet means we have not done the work. Those two are kept apart on purpose: an empty box because we were slow should never look like an empty box because they were quiet.

Found something that has moved? Tell us. It gets checked against the source and the change is dated on the corrections page.

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