2026 Update: Lemon Squeezy + Stripe Managed Payments

Hey everyone,

I know it's been way too quiet on our end since our last real update. That's on me.

Here's the thing: while we've been heads-down building something big with Stripe’s new merchant of record product, I realize we left you in the dark. And honestly, that meant some tradeoffs for the Lemon Squeezy community: slower support responses and less frequent product updates. I know that's been frustrating.

It’s important to me that we own that. The last year has been a whirlwind. Coming off an acquisition, hypergrowth, and building the next iteration of what we believe a merchant of record should be.

That said, I wanted to share what we've actually been up to and why I'm more excited than ever about what's coming.

We're building the future of merchant of record

When Stripe acquired Lemon Squeezy in 2024, it wasn't just about joining a bigger company. It was about taking everything we learned building Lemon Squeezy. That “easy-peasy” approach to selling digital products and building it at Stripe scale.

That’s what we’re doing with Stripe Managed Payments: Stripe’s merchant of record solution.

Think Lemon Squeezy's simplicity, but with Stripe's infrastructure handling global payments, tax compliance, fraud protection, disputes, and customer support across key markets. The goal is simple: remove as many barriers as possible between you and selling globally.

The same team. The same 🍋 flavor. Just with the resources to build something we could never build alone.

The momentum is real

The good news is Stripe Managed Payments is here, and it’s moving fast.

We’re expanding to more regions, learning a ton from users, and pushing on the details that matter: reliability, compliance depth, easy onboarding experience, and making global selling feel… simple.

It feels like the early Lemon Squeezy days again, except now it’s backed by Stripe’s global infrastructure.

If you’re interested in gaining early access to Managed Payments, sign up for our waitlist here. 

Today Managed Payments support merchants in 35+ countries and we’re expanding to more later this year. If you do not operate in a country that Stripe supports, check out Atlas where you can incorporate your own C-Corp or LLC.

Very soon we will announce public access for Stripe Managed Payments allowing users to sign up without needing an invite. Our goal is to provide Lemon Squeezy users an easy way to migrate to Stripe Managed Payments. I can't say it enough how important it is for me and the team for our Lemon Squeezy users to have a great experience moving over to Stripe.

Why Stripe Managed Payments is the future

In short, Stripe brings years of payments experience. A lot of Stripe works quietly behind the scenes and that's the way it was intended. But that also makes it hard to experience the power of those optimizations. One example is authorization rates. These are much better when you're directly on Stripe. Not to mention, there are 100's of engineers focused on core features like Checkout, API's, latency, and much more.

By choosing Stripe as your merchant of record, you instantly gain all the years of product development, optimizations, 99.9999% uptime, and everything else you've come to love from Stripe. All wrapped in the global compliance features you'd expect from a merchant of record.

Thank you

Thank you for sticking with us through a quieter chapter.

Lemon Squeezy exists because of this community. From the founders, developers, creators, and teams who just wanted a clean way to sell globally without the usual headaches.

We don’t take that for granted. Not for a second.

More soon,
JR Farr
Co-Founder, Lemon Squeezy (Stripe)

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