Aureon as your Billing Platform
Introduction
What is a Billing Platform?
We provide the infrastructure to streamline payments, automate tax calculations, and route funds directly to you. So you can focus on growing your business instead of building payment gateways. Leave the complex billing infrastructure to us.
PSP vs. Platform
Payment Service Provider (PSPs)
Stripe and other Payment Service Providers (PSPs) offer an accessible and convenient abstraction to facilitate transactions on top of underlying credit card networks & banks.
- Powerful, flexible & low-level APIs to facilitate transactions
- Can be used to power all business- and pricing models under the sun.
- You are responsible for building the entire checkout, subscription logic, and customer portal yourself.
- Low-level APIs require significant development time even for common software monetization use cases.
Aureon Platform
Aureon acts as a comprehensive billing and entitlement layer on top of Stripe Connect. We abstract away the complexity of subscriptions, invoicing, and digital product delivery.
- Higher-level Dashboard, APIs & SDKs to instantly facilitate digital products, services & orders beyond basic transactions.
- Automated payouts directly to your bank account via Stripe Connect.
- Built-in integrations for GitHub, Discord, and file downloads.
- A small platform fee is applied in exchange for the out-of-the-box infrastructure.
Go with a raw PSP API if...
- You have a large engineering team dedicated to building and maintaining internal billing systems.
- You require completely custom, low-level transaction flows that standard checkout pages cannot handle.
- You want to build your own webhooks for every single subscription lifecycle event.
Go with Aureon if...
- You want product-, customer-, order- and subscription management via an intuitive, ready-to-use dashboard.
- You want to offer file downloads, license keys, Discord- and/or private GitHub repository invites instantly.
- You prefer high-level APIs and SDKs optimized for developer monetization.
- You want automated tax calculations integrated directly into your checkout flow.
International Sales Tax Handling
Most countries, states and jurisdictions globally impose sales taxes on digital goods and services (VAT, GST, US Sales Tax etc). Handling this compliance is critical when scaling your software business globally.
For example, a $10/month subscription should cost $12.5/month for a Swedish (25% VAT) consumer, but $10/month for a Swedish business with VAT registration (reverse charge).
As a merchant on Aureon, you maintain control of your business entity, but we provide the tools to make compliance as frictionless as possible.
Capturing Taxes
Charging the correct tax amount dynamically based on the customer's location is a technical hurdle. Aureon seamlessly integrates with Stripe Tax to automate this process. We detect the location, apply the correct rate, and capture the tax amount at checkout—zero extra code required.
Remitting Taxes
Filing and paying the captured sales taxes with the tax authorities remains your responsibility. Because Aureon is a platform (not an MoR), you retain your own tax thresholds and liability. We provide comprehensive export reports to make your accounting and remittance straightforward.
Many jurisdictions don't require tax registration until you reach a certain threshold in terms of sales volume. Others require registration after a very low threshold.
For example, United Kingdom and EU countries require upfront registration for international companies, but Texas (United States) does not until you've sold for more than $500,000.
By operating on Aureon, your sales count towards your own business thresholds. This is often highly beneficial for growing startups, as you won't be forced to charge taxes in jurisdictions where you haven't yet reached the legal threshold, keeping your pricing competitive.
The Aureon Advantage
- Real-time tax calculation during checkout via Stripe Tax integration.
- Support for EU VAT B2B reverse charge validation.
- You retain your own tax thresholds, potentially saving customers from paying unnecessary taxes early in your journey.
- Clear, exportable reports for when you do need to remit taxes to authorities.
Ready to make the switch?
Join thousands of teams who have already transformed their payment infrastructure with Aureon.