Note
There are several options for MoR service, we’re using Lemon Squeezy in this course, but you can use what we teach here in Paddle, Polar, or any other service you like. We have no preference, we just happened to pick Lemon Squeezy for this course.
Do you have an amazing product that you want to sell to your customers? Are you looking for a payment processor to be a Merchant of Record to handle tax compliance so that you can focus on more revenue? Lemon Squeezy to the rescue! Start selling your digital products fast and easy.
In this tutorial, we'll build a full checkout system for our awesome product and learn all about the next topics:
- Manage your store in the Lemon Squeezy dashboard
- Use Lemon Squeezy storefront to sell products
- Charge a one-time fee with single payments
- Use API to talk to Lemon Squeezy and sell products directly from your website
- Use the Lemon.js script to stream the checkout workflow via overlay
- Prefill customer's info and add custom data
- Automatic invoice email on successful order
- Link Lemon Squeezy customers to the users in our DB
- Use webhooks to sync data in our database
- Handling the order_created webhook event
- Live webhook handling with Ngrok
- Test webhooks by simulating their sending with fake data
Finally, bonus - users' card credentials are never sent to our servers, but directly to Lemon Squeezy. That means we do not save sensitive card credentials on our servers. Yay!
