Paddle is a complete payment infrastructure designed for SaaS companies. It offers subscription billing, global tax compliance (including VAT and sales tax), fraud prevention, and revenue recognition in a single platform. Unlike traditional payment processors, Paddle acts as a merchant of record (MoR), simplifying compliance and reducing legal risk for developers. Its APIs and checkout flows are optimized for software subscriptions, with support for trials, discounts, dunning, and account upgrades. Paddle is especially popular with B2B SaaS, indie software developers, and companies seeking to reduce overhead related to taxes, chargebacks, and currency conversion.

Paddle is fully blocked in China. Its primary domain (paddle.com) and checkout endpoints are inaccessible from Chinese networks. Attempting to complete purchases via Paddle-hosted checkouts or embedded flows results in failures due to DNS resolution issues and firewall restrictions. Paddle does not support Chinese payment methods like Alipay or WeChat Pay, and its customer support and tax compliance systems are not localized for Chinese regulations. Developers targeting global users from China-based infrastructure will face difficulty integrating Paddle, and local users will not be able to complete transactions. For subscription-based apps in China, developers typically integrate with local SaaS billing platforms such as Qingsuanbao (轻算包), UMPay SaaS Billing, or custom implementations using Alipay Subscriptions. Paddle’s merchant-of-record model is unique, but replicating its legal and tax abstraction requires working with specialized Chinese SaaS payment solution providers or resellers.

The information regarding service availability in China is provided for general reference purposes only. Due to the dynamic nature of network conditions and regulatory environments, the actual accessibility of these services may vary over time and by location. Users are advised to verify the current status independently.