Payments

Payments tools are for accepting and billing for payments — the kind of work every indie hacker eventually hits and would rather not build from scratch. 7 tools are listed here, each picked and written up individually rather than pulled from an affiliate feed. Chargebee is usually the first one people try: handles the messy subscription billing logic — proration, dunning, usage-based pricing — once you outgrow simple checkout. Gumroad takes a different angle — fastest way to slap a checkout link on a digital product with zero infrastructure — built for solo creators, not enterprises. And Lemon Squeezy is worth a look too: simple merchant-of-record checkout indie hackers actually like, now being folded into Stripe's own MoR product. Every listing below includes the actual tradeoff, not marketing copy, so you can pick based on what you're building instead of what ranks highest in a sponsored roundup elsewhere.