Sep 25, 2026
Who owes the tax on your sale: merchant of record or you
The name on your buyer's card statement does not settle who owes the tax. Here is how to tell whether your platform files it or you do, and what each route costs on a $10 sale.
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5 articles
- Sep 18, 2026
One sale, two events: the duplicate your buyer sees
A single purchase can reach your system more than once, by design. What your buyer gets twice depends on what the platform decided counts as the same thing.
- Sep 15, 2026
One upload: what answering a chargeback actually asks of you
A dispute is not a conversation. It is one file upload, under 4.5 MB, inside a window somebody else set - and for a digital sale the proof has to already exist.
- Sep 4, 2026
Your first sale is waiting on Stripe
We built the platform side of Stripe Connect. Between connecting it and your first sale sits a verification step no platform shows you, and it reopens later.
- Aug 25, 2026
Four settings your platform picked that decide what you keep
Your money lands in a Stripe account with your name on it and someone else's settings on it. We built that platform side - here is what those settings do.
