A tax engine
Rates, thresholds and digital-goods rules change constantly. Keeping up with them is our problem now.
Merchant of Record
Sell worldwide. We are the one on the invoice.
CheckoutWeb is the legal seller in every transaction. Sales tax, compliant invoicing and liability move to us, so you can sell into a new country the same week you decide to.
Merchant of record · Tax filed and remitted · One payout
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Pro Plan
- Subtotal
- €20,92
- VAT · Germany (19%)
- €3,98
Total charged€24,90
Sold by
CheckoutWeb · merchant of record
Buyer's country
- We are the seller
- You sell to CheckoutWeb, CheckoutWeb sells to the buyer. Our name is the one on the receipt and on the obligation.
- Tax handled end to end
- Calculated at checkout for the buyer's country, collected with the payment, then filed and remitted by us.
- Liability moves with it
- Fraud and chargeback exposure on the sale sits with the merchant of record, which is no longer you.
- One payout, one company
- Sell into a new country without opening an entity, registering for a tax number or hiring a local accountant.
Gateway vs merchant of record
A gateway moves the money. It does not take the obligation.
This is the difference people discover late, usually in the second market, usually from an accountant. It is worth understanding before you expand rather than after.
With a payment gateway
- You are the seller of record in every market
- You register for VAT, GST or sales tax where you owe it
- You file and remit in each jurisdiction, on its calendar
- You issue invoices that satisfy each country's rules
- You carry the chargeback and fraud liability
- You open entities to expand
With CheckoutWeb
- CheckoutWeb is the seller of record
- Registrations are ours, not yours
- We file and remit on those obligations
- Compliant receipts are issued automatically
- Chargeback and fraud liability sits with us
- You expand from the company you already have
How it works
Three parties, and only one of them is your problem.
You sell to us. We sell to the buyer. The paperwork that expansion normally generates never reaches your side of the transaction.
You publish the product
Set your price once. The checkout presents it in the buyer's currency and resolves the tax treatment for their country.
We sell it to the buyer
CheckoutWeb is the contracting party on that sale. The buyer gets a compliant receipt with the right tax line and our name on it.
You get paid, net
Tax never lands in your balance because it was never yours. One payout arrives in your currency, already clean.
- BrazilBRL
R$ 149,90
Pix · Cards
- United StatesUSD
$29.00
Cards · Crypto
- GermanyEUR
€24,90
Cards · Crypto
- JapanJPY
¥4,200
Cards
The same checkout, priced and paid the way each market expects.
What you stop owning
The work that moves off your roadmap.
Every item here is something teams routinely build in-house to sell across borders, and routinely regret owning.
Tax registrations
No numbers to apply for, no local representative to appoint, no renewal to forget.
Invoicing per market
Receipts carry the fields each country expects, without a template fork for every launch.
Chargeback operations
Disputes on the sale are handled by the party that made it, which is us.
Cross-provider reconciliation
One ledger for every country, so month-end is a report rather than an investigation.
A second gateway per region
One integration covers the markets you sell into instead of one contract per country.
Records
The paperwork your buyers and your accountant ask for.
Selling across borders creates questions after the sale. The answers should already be in the dashboard rather than in someone's inbox.
- Compliant receipts and invoices issued to the buyer automatically
- Every sale tagged with its country, currency, method and tax treatment
- Exports your accountant can reconcile against a single payout
- A full history per customer, wherever in the world they bought
FAQ
Merchant of record, plainly.
What does merchant of record actually mean?
It means CheckoutWeb is the legal seller in the transaction. You sell to us, we sell to your customer. The tax obligations, the compliant invoice and the liability on that sale are ours, and you receive a single settlement for what you sold.
Do I still need a company in every country I sell to?
No. That is the point of the model. You sell from the entity you already have, and the local obligations created by the sale sit with us as the merchant of record.
Whose name does the customer see?
The checkout carries your brand and your domain, so the buying experience is yours. The receipt names CheckoutWeb as the seller, because legally that is who sold it.
Does this cover my own taxes?
No, and be careful of anyone who says otherwise. We handle the sales tax, VAT, GST and equivalents created by the transaction. Corporate income tax on the revenue you receive from us remains yours, in your own country.
Which countries and taxes are covered?
Coverage is specific and it changes as we register in new places. Talk to sales for the current list of markets and tax regimes before you plan a launch around one.
Who handles refunds and chargebacks?
We do, as the seller of record. Refunds are issued against the original payment, including the tax that was collected, and disputes are defended by us rather than landing on your team.