Let Lemon Squeezy Handle Sales Tax as Merchant of Record

Lemon Squeezy becomes the seller on each transaction and collects and remits sales tax, VAT and GST. Customers pay on a hosted checkout, Lemon Squeezy bills renewals for subscription products, and you manage orders from your J2Commerce admin.

What Lemon Squeezy Brings to Your Joomla Store

Merchant of Record tax handling, renewals for subscription products and admin controls on every order.

Merchant of Record
Lemon Squeezy is the seller on every transaction, so it collects, reports and remits VAT, GST and sales tax.
Card Data Stays With Lemon Squeezy
Buyers pay on Lemon Squeezy's hosted checkout, as a full page or an overlay, so card numbers never reach your server.
Renewals for Subscription Products
Lemon Squeezy bills subscribers, retries failed cards and notifies your store, which records each renewal as an order (requires the Subscriptions And Memberships app).
Customer Self-Service Billing Portal
Subscribers update cards, view invoices and manage their plan in Lemon Squeezy's customer portal.
Cancel, Pause and Resume From the Order
Each order, including renewals, has actions to cancel, pause or resume the subscription.
Full & Partial Refunds From the Order Screen
Refund a charge in full or in part from the order view, and the order status updates.
Overlay or Full-Page Checkout
Configure whether the payment step opens as a floating overlay on your Joomla store page or redirects to Lemon Squeezy's dedicated checkout. Two experiences, one plugin, your call.
Geo-Zone & Basket-Size Restrictions
Show Lemon Squeezy only to buyers in specific regions, or only when the cart hits a minimum or maximum value. Pair it with other payment methods for total checkout control.
Test Mode & Live Connection Verify
Run the entire checkout flow with test credentials before going live. The connection test button confirms your account name and key mode in one click. Flip to live when you're ready.

Lemon Squeezy Files the Tax Returns

Each new market can add VAT rules, GST registrations or U.S. nexus thresholds. As Merchant of Record, Lemon Squeezy is the seller, so it files those returns.

VAT, GST and sales tax collected and remitted for Lemon Squeezy sales
Tax rule changes handled by Lemon Squeezy

A Separate Order for Every Renewal

With the Subscriptions And Memberships app, each Lemon Squeezy renewal becomes its own order with its own transaction record and refund and subscription controls.

Each renewal order has its own Cancel, Pause, Resume, and Refund controls
Billing events match to renewal orders automatically
Subscription lifecycle tracked in J2Commerce order history throughout

Card Collection Handled by Lemon Squeezy

Lemon Squeezy's hosted checkout collects card details, so card numbers never reach your server or database.

Hosted checkout as an overlay on your page or a full redirect
Card numbers never arrive on your server or in your database
No card data to store or protect on your side

Sell Worldwide With Lemon Squeezy

Lemon Squeezy is the seller of record, and you manage every order, renewal and refund from your J2Commerce admin.

Merchant of Record
Card Data Stays With Lemon Squeezy
Renewals for Subscription Products

Use Cases

The Digital Download Shop Selling Globally

A store selling guides, templates and licenses in many countries uses Lemon Squeezy as Merchant of Record, so it no longer files VAT returns for those sales.

The Subscription Software Business

A developer sells monthly access to a Joomla plugin with the Subscriptions And Memberships app. Forty subscribers billed monthly. Every month: a handful of cards that need updating, a couple of subscriptions being paused while a client's project is on hold, one refund request because a client double-billed by accident. With Lemon Squeezy in J2Commerce, each renewal creates its own order. Each order has a Refund button and a Cancel button. Subscribers update their own cards in the customer portal.

The Agency Running Multiple Client Stores

An agency sets up the plugin differently for three client stores: overlay checkout, full-page checkout, and a minimum basket value.

Languages

Translated into 21 languages.

Arabic Unitag ar-AA
Chinese, Traditional zh-TW
Danish da-DK
Dutch nl-NL
English (United Kingdom) en-GB
English (United States) en-US
Finnish fi-FI
French fr-FR
German de-DE
Greek el-GR
Hebrew he-IL
Italian it-IT
Japanese ja-JP
Norwegian Bokmål nb-NO
Polish pl-PL
Portuguese, Brazil pt-BR
Portuguese, Portugal pt-PT
Russian ru-RU
Spanish es-ES
Swedish sv-SE
Turkish tr-TR

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