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Press Release: FastSpring CEO David Nachman on Google Play Case Ruling: “This is a Win For Gamers and Studios”

FastSpring

FastSpring, founded in 2005, is an e-commerce platform that allows companies to sell video games, SaaS, software and digital products at a global scale. As a Merchant of Record, FastSpring provides a fully managed payment solution including checkout, fraud mitigation, and comprehensive sales tax and VAT compliance.

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FastSpring and EBANX Forge Partnership to Expand Pix Payments for Digital Products in Brazil

FastSpring

Director of Payments, Risk, and Compliance at FastSpring. As a merchant of record, FastSpring provides a fully managed payment solution including checkout, fraud mitigation, comprehensive sales tax and VAT compliance, and more. Adding Pix opens up the Brazilian market to new buyers who do not have internationally enabled cards.

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News: U.S. Federal Judge and Epic Games Challenge Whether Apple Has Complied With Order to Allow Payment Steering

FastSpring

The evidentiary hearing regarding Apple’s subsequent compliance began on Wednesday, May 8. As a Merchant of Record, FastSpring provides a fully managed payment solution including checkout, fraud mitigation, and 100% automated sales tax and VAT compliance.

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News: U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Appeals From Apple and Epic in Antitrust Case

FastSpring

Sweeney then threaded a list of “glaring problems we’ve found so far,” concluding with “ Epic will contest Apple’s bad-faith compliance plan in District Court ” and attaching an image of the aforementioned “scare screen” Apple has included in its Developer Support update regarding external purchase links.

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5 Best Paddle Alternatives in 2024

FastSpring

FastSpring includes global payment processing and recurring revenue management, of course, but the platform also takes care of the end-to-end checkout process, including optimization of your checkout flow, collecting and remitting sales tax and VAT, localization, fraud prevention, global compliance, and more.

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Is What Epic Wants for App Stores What Other Game Developers Actually Want?

FastSpring

Google Play does offer a third-party payment integration option for a limited number of game developers through their “ user choice billing ” pilot; however, “user choice billing” comes with pricey evergreen marketplace fees of 26% even if you bring your own payment provider and take on all of the risk and compliance obligations of payments.

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Software Transcends Borders—Why Not Money?

Andreessen Horowitz

has had real-time payments since 2005 via the Faster Payments network. In addition, compliance, capital requirements, governance, and data storage are all country-specific and require significant local expertise. Today, U.K. consumers use contactless payments for nearly 90% of in-person transactions.