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How do you accept subscription payments in your apps or websites without a registered company?

We have launched our first startup which is in a form of an android and iOS app, and we are planning to accept subscription payments to offer premium features,
We have one option which is "Stripe", however "Stripe" requires a registered company in USA, which we don't have, so, does anyone has a suggestion for any alternative?

on June 9, 2019
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    Whenever such questions are asked, I have noted gumroad.com is never mentioned. The only drawback currently in Gumroad is you cannot prefill custom fields. @sahil is working on this and will launch the feature soon.
    However, I have used their license key feature, which you can use to check if the subscription is valid or expired. Worth checking it out.

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      You can prefill custom fields now!

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        Wow! That's super. :)
        Could you please help with the docs? Can't find them.

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      Would you recommend it over Paypal? because it seems that Gumroad pricing is higher than Paypal

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        Yes. the pricing is higher. Not sure about the recommendation here. I tend to find using Paypal a little tedious. It asks the customer to signup.
        Let me know how, if you used Paypal.

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    Paddle.com is a good but expensive alternative. I use it right now on one of my projects and for the time being I'll probably stick around with it!

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      Very expensive indeed

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      It seems that Paypal offers online payment gateway as mentioned by @hamzoun and it's fees is 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction, is there a specific reason why have you chose Paddle instead?

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        Yup, Paypal has some weird restrictions when it comes to South Korea, which is unfortunately where my company is located.

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        you can use PayPal Checkout, this is supposed to work with one payment only, but I use it for subscriptions, each month users have to pay manually.
        setting up Checkout is very easy and quickly (1 - 2 hours for the first time you read the docs).
        Google also provides Google Pay which works the same as PayPal Checkout.
        this is my own solution for my MVP.

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    same questions :D

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