Connect Lemon Squeezy
Lemon Squeezy, counted as revenue rather than as turnover.
They are a Merchant of Record, so the sales tax was never yours. Income is booked from the subtotal.
One API key from your own account settings.
Merchant of Record
The tax on that order is not your income and never was.
Booking the total as revenue inflates your year by the VAT they remit.
- →Income is booked from the order subtotal, so the tax they collect never appears as money you earned
- →The day is always re-read in full rather than topped up, so a rollup cannot end up holding half a day's orders
- →Refunds subtract from the day they belong to
What we do not guess
Their platform fee is not in the data, so it is not in your book as a number we made up.
They do not expose their cut per order, and we do not estimate it.
- →Fees stay at zero on this connection rather than carrying an estimate that would look like a fact
- →The amount that actually reached you shows on the bank side, where it is a real payment with a real figure
- →The Lemon Squeezy account holds nothing: they publish no balance and no payouts, so nothing here pretends to know what is still with them
The key you give us
Made in your account, checked before it is stored.
Settings, then API, then create a key.
- →The key is tried against Lemon Squeezy before the connection is created, so a dead key never reaches the database
- →Encrypted at rest, and never returned by our API again
- →Revoking it in their settings is enough to cut us off, without asking us anything
Questions
The questions people ask before connecting.
Why is my income lower here than the order total?
Because Lemon Squeezy is a Merchant of Record: they collect and remit the sales tax on that order, and it was never your money. Income is booked from the subtotal, so your year is not inflated by whatever VAT your customers happened to pay.
Why are the fees zero?
Their platform fee is not exposed per order. We could estimate it from the published rate, and an estimate in a ledger looks exactly like a fact. Instead fees stay at zero here and the amount that actually reached you shows on the bank side.
Does it hold a balance?
No. They publish no balance and no payouts, so the account holds nothing and the money counts once, when it lands in your bank.
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Connect Lemon Squeezy, and see the year without their VAT in it.
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