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Receipts, tax, and where every payment went
Receipts and invoices that send themselves, sales tax handled as part of the payment route you and I set up, and every payout in plain sight.
What arrives
- A receipt
- for every purchase, sent without you opening anything
- Invoices
- raised and sent on their own, against the right customer
- Sales tax
- worked out, collected and filed as part of the payment route
- Every sale
- and every payout visible to you, with nothing held back
- Refunds
- issued back down the same route the money came in
- Disputes
- handled through a proper process rather than guesswork
The part that goes wrong quietly#
Nobody starts a business worrying about sales tax. It becomes a problem later, all at once, and usually in a country the owner had not thought of as a country - just as somewhere a customer happened to live.
Handled as part of the route the money already takes, it stops being a thing you keep up with. The rate that applies is worked out when the sale happens, it is collected then, and it is filed on the schedule that country expects.
Which countries and currencies you can reach#
That follows from the payment route we set up together, not from the software. Some routes reach most of the world; some are narrower, and one or two markets are awkward wherever you start from. You will know which yours reaches before anything goes live, because I will tell you as part of choosing it.
If you later want a market the route does not cover, that is a change to the route rather than a setting. It is a conversation, and it is one worth having before you promise a customer anything.
What I will not tell you it does#
Money crossing a border takes days rather than minutes. That is the banking system, it is the same for everybody, and any arrangement that claims otherwise is describing the moment a customer pays rather than the moment you can spend it.
So: the sale is instant, the record is instant, and the money landing in your account is not. Plan the month around the slower one.
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