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Digital River Alternatives

Digital River and Paddle are two Merchant of Record solutions for companies selling globally. If you’re looking for Digital River alternatives, here’s how they compare to Paddle.

Paddle is the MoR of choice for SaaS and digital products

Paddle is an all-in-one MoR solution that manages payments, subscription billing, sales tax compliance, fraud protection, chargebacks, and more. It is the only MoR purpose-built for SaaS and digital product companies.

Digital River is a legacy MoR that supports software and physical products

Digital River is a MoR solution offering payments, fraud, tax, and compliance management. It was built for physical goods and adapted to work with digital products.

Go-to-market faster with flexible plans and packages

With Digital River subscription software, creating and editing a range of subscription packages can be clunky and require product support to execute, especially if you offer multiple products or tiers.

With Paddle, you can build and modify your subscription logic to offer competitive subscription packages:

  • Sell multiple products in one plan, with multi-seat plus add-ons
  • Give buyers more choice and increase average order value
  • Maximize revenue potential with regional pricing, and set prices based on willingness to pay
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Easily customizable checkout that drives conversions

Optimizing Digital River's checkout for better conversion rates can often require significant ongoing engineering effort.

Paddle’s simple APIs let you easily create a customized and intuitive checkout. 

  • Modern and sleek inline or overlay checkouts
  • Show users the most popular payment methods in their region 
  • Full localization: Set region-specific pricing, support for 17+ languages and 29+ local currencies
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Tailored support from day one

Digital River facilitates transactions but offers little support to customers or buyers (your customers’ customers).

Paddle’s customer support team works with each Paddle customer to optimize their success.

  • Customer support will respond to queries within 24 hours
  • Buyer support to handle your customers’ billing queries within 14 hours
  • 93% customer satisfaction score

Aggressively fight churn, out-of-the-box

When payments fail, Digital River leaves churn management up to you without built-in tools for payment retries or customer reminders. This means you could be missing out on recoverable revenue and flying blind when it comes to understanding your churn rates.

Paddle’s churn intervention has industry-leading payment recovery rates:

  • Smart, data-driven retries catch failed payments and rescue lost revenue
  • Timely reminders prompt customers to update expiring cards before they are lost
  • Clear, actionable reports give a full picture of churn and key revenue metrics

Simplified pricing from the start

Wondering about costs? Digital River doesn't publish their prices - you'll need to get in touch with them to find out what you'll pay.

In comparison, with Paddle, you get access to everything for one simple fee of 5% + 50¢ per transaction. This fee includes:

  • Checkout
  • Transaction processing
  • Subscription management
  • Invoicing
  • Localization
  • Tax compliance
  • ProfitWell Metrics
  • Payment recovery
  • Churn interventions
  • Expert growth and pricing advisory
  • Buyer and seller support

When we needed to find a new e-commerce partner back in June 2019, it was only Paddle that provided all the features we required to run our company effectively. The transition was seamless, with a whole database of transactions dating from January 2007 being supported. Since then, Paddle have continued to evolve their web-store solution making it easier for our customers to purchase locally; using methods they’re used to using in their country. As Paddle innovate, it allows Literature & Latte to grow too. Here’s to many more years of working together!

David JohnsonSales Director, Literature & Latte

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