About Paddle
The merchant of record for subscription software.
Paddle is a merchant of record built for SaaS and app businesses, meaning it becomes the legal seller of your product and takes on the sales-tax, VAT, fraud and billing-support obligations that go with that role. It covers smart payment routing, localised checkouts, multi-product subscriptions, failed-payment recovery and global tax remittance. The company reports more than six thousand customers and around three hundred million dollars of investor funding on its site.
The point of pulling Paddle into a warehouse is that the merchant-of-record model is powerful for the seller and opaque for the data team. The cash hits the bank as a net payout, tax sits in Paddle's ledger, and churn, MRR, expansion and downgrades live in a reporting view that finance cannot cross-check against the general ledger. In a warehouse, the Paddle subscription, the Paddle transaction and the Paddle adjustment line up with the CRM account, the invoice and the support ticket, and MRR, tax and cash finally read the same story.