Polar
Open-source financing platform enabling product sales, subscriptions, and sponsorships with seamless checkout and analytics.
| Date | Investors | Amount | Round |
|---|---|---|---|
| - | investor | €0.0 | round |
* | €8.6m | Seed | |
| Total Funding | 000k | ||
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Polar is an open-source platform that helps developers and startups monetize their software and digital products. It provides infrastructure for selling products online, handling payments, subscriptions, and entitlements with minimal setup. The platform is built with developers in mind, offering both code-based integration and a no-code dashboard for managing products, customers, and billing.
One of Polar's core offerings is acting as the merchant of record. This means it manages international tax collection and compliance, including VAT and GST, removing that burden from creators. Users can sell a wide range of products including one-time purchases, recurring subscriptions, and usage-based pricing. Entitlements are automatically delivered after purchase, such as license keys, downloadable files, GitHub repository access, or Discord roles.
Polar is designed to work well with modern development stacks. It includes SDKs and APIs, along with support for popular frameworks like Next.js. Developers can integrate checkout flows and product access in just a few steps. For those not wanting to write code, the platform also includes a dashboard that handles product setup, analytics, and customer management.
The platform is open source, licensed under Apache 2.0, and its code is publicly available on GitHub. This allows for full transparency and encourages contributions from the community. Polar’s pricing model is based on transactions, charging a percentage fee and fixed amount per transaction, with no monthly or fixed costs.
Customers who purchase products through Polar receive access to a self-service portal where they can manage their orders, subscriptions, and access to purchased items. This helps reduce support overhead for creators and improves the experience for end users.
keywords: open-source monetization, developer tools, billing platform, merchant of record, sell software, digital product sales, GitHub integration, usage-based billing, one-time purchase, subscription billing, developer-friendly APIs, no-code dashboard, SaaS monetization, automated entitlements, VAT compliance, digital sales infrastructure.