Welcome to Polar
Focus on shipping. We'll focus on the infrastructure to get you paid - from first donation to IPO.
Features
- GitHub Login & Official funding partner (
FUNDING.yaml) - Funding
- Accept one-off donations
- Crowdfunding behind GitHub issues - beautifully embedded
- Reward contributors to funded issues
- Commercialization (Sponsorware to SaaS)
- Pay once digital products, or...
- Recurring subscriptions (monthly/annual)
- Built-in & powerfully automated product & subscription benefits, e.g License Keys, File Downloads, GitHub Repo(s) access, Discord access and more.
- Polar is the Merchant of Record (MOR) handling billing, sales tax & EU VAT.
- Beautiful Polar page out of the box (official GitHub funding link) or...
- API & SDK for seamless integrations across docs, sites & services
You'll be up and running in 5 minutes. Let's get started.
Integrate Polar in minutes
Built Open Source (Apache 2.0)
- 100% of our product, code and docs available on GitHub
- 19 contributors and growing (Contributions welcome)
- Feature requests, feedback and issues - all in public
- Self-hosting while possible is not supported or encouraged (no MOR benefits)
Pricing
- No fixed, monthly, costs
- 4% 40¢ on transactions - we earn when you do
- Some payments may be subject to additional fees
- Large or fast-growing business? Reach out to us for volume discounts
Why Polar vs. X?
There are a lot of options out there. So why use Polar?
- We're the Merchant of Record and handle Sales tax & EU VAT so you don't have to
- Built-in benefits to upsell designed for the developer ecosystem, e.g Discord invites, GitHub repository access, file downloads and more.
- Official GitHub funding.yaml option
- Powerful API & built 100% open source for the developer ecosystem
- Competitive pricing. Our fees are 20% lower than other popular merchant of record solutions.
Supported countries
Polar is built on Stripe Connect and currently supports the following list of countries for payouts:
- 🇦🇱Albania
- 🇩🇿Algeria
- 🇦🇴Angola
- 🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda
- 🇦🇷Argentina
- 🇦🇲Armenia
- 🇦🇺Australia
- 🇦🇹Austria
- 🇦🇿Azerbaijan
- 🇧🇸Bahamas
- 🇧🇭Bahrain
- 🇧🇩Bangladesh
- 🇧🇪Belgium
- 🇧🇯Benin
- 🇧🇹Bhutan
- 🇧🇴Bolivia
- 🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 🇧🇼Botswana
- 🇧🇳Brunei
- 🇧🇬Bulgaria
- 🇰🇭Cambodia
- 🇨🇦Canada
- 🇨🇱Chile
- 🇨🇴Colombia
- 🇨🇷Costa Rica
- 🇭🇷Croatia
- 🇨🇾Cyprus
- 🇨🇿Czech Republic
- 🇩🇰Denmark
- 🇩🇴Dominican Republic
- 🇪🇨Ecuador
- 🇪🇬Egypt
- 🇸🇻El Salvador
- 🇪🇪Estonia
- 🇪🇹Ethiopia
- 🇫🇮Finland
- 🇫🇷France
- 🇬🇦Gabon
- 🇬🇲Gambia
- 🇩🇪Germany
- 🇬🇭Ghana
- 🇬🇷Greece
- 🇬🇹Guatemala
- 🇬🇾Guyana
- 🇭🇰Hong Kong
- 🇭🇺Hungary
- 🇮🇸Iceland
- 🇮🇳India
- 🇮🇩Indonesia
- 🇮🇪Ireland
- 🇮🇱Israel
- 🇮🇹Italy
- 🇨🇮Ivory Coast
- 🇯🇲Jamaica
- 🇯🇵Japan
- 🇯🇴Jordan
- 🇰🇿Kazakhstan
- 🇰🇪Kenya
- 🇰🇼Kuwait
- 🇱🇦Laos
- 🇱🇻Latvia
- 🇱🇮Liechtenstein
- 🇱🇹Lithuania
- 🇱🇺Luxembourg
- 🇲🇴Macao
- 🇲🇬Madagascar
- 🇲🇾Malaysia
- 🇲🇹Malta
- 🇲🇺Mauritius
- 🇲🇽Mexico
- 🇲🇩Moldova
- 🇲🇨Monaco
- 🇲🇳Mongolia
- 🇲🇦Morocco
- 🇲🇿Mozambique
- 🇳🇦Namibia
- 🇳🇱Netherlands
- 🇳🇿New Zealand
- 🇳🇪Niger
- 🇳🇬Nigeria
- 🇲🇰North Macedonia
- 🇳🇴Norway
- 🇴🇲Oman
- 🇵🇰Pakistan
- 🇵🇦Panama
- 🇵🇾Paraguay
- 🇵🇪Peru
- 🇵🇭Philippines
- 🇵🇱Poland
- 🇵🇹Portugal
- 🇶🇦Qatar
- 🇷🇴Romania
- 🇷🇼Rwanda
- 🇱🇨Saint Lucia
- 🇸🇲San Marino
- 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
- 🇸🇳Senegal
- 🇷🇸Serbia
- 🇸🇬Singapore
- 🇸🇰Slovakia
- 🇸🇮Slovenia
- 🇿🇦South Africa
- 🇰🇷South Korea
- 🇪🇸Spain
- 🇱🇰Sri Lanka
- 🇸🇪Sweden
- 🇨🇭Switzerland
- 🇹🇼Taiwan
- 🇹🇿Tanzania
- 🇹🇭Thailand
- 🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago
- 🇹🇳Tunisia
- 🇹🇷Turkey
- 🇦🇪United Arab Emirates
- 🇬🇧United Kingdom
- 🇺🇸United States
- 🇺🇾Uruguay
- 🇺🇿Uzbekistan
- 🇻🇳Vietnam