💡 Summary
Polar is an open-source monetization platform enabling developers to sell digital products effortlessly.
🎯 Target Audience
🤖 AI Roast: “The README does not specify security measures for handling sensitive data, which poses risks like data breaches or unauthorized access. Implementing encryption for sensitive transa”
Risk: Medium. Review: shell/CLI command execution; outbound network access (SSRF, data egress); API keys/tokens handling and storage. Run with least privilege and audit before enabling in production.
Website • Docs • API Reference
Polar: Open Source payments infrastructure for the 21st century
Focus on building your passion, while we focus on the infrastructure to get you paid.
- Sell SaaS and digital products in minutes
- All-in-one funding & monetization platform for developers.
- Sell access to GitHub repositories, Discord Support channels, File Downloads, License Keys & much more with Digital Products & Subscriptions.
- We're the merchant of record handling the...
- ...boilerplate (billing, receipts, customer accounts etc)
- ...headaches (sales tax, VAT)
Pricing
- 4% + 40¢
- No fixed monthly costs
- Additional fees may apply. Read more
Roadmap, Issues & Feature Requests
🎯 Upcoming milestones. Check out what we're building towards
💬 Shape the future of Polar with us. Join our Discord
🐛 Found a bug? Submit it here
🔓 Found a security vulnerability? We greatly appreciate responsible and private disclosures. See Security
Polar API & SDK
You can integrate Polar on your docs, sites or services using our Public API and Webhook API.
We also maintain SDKs for the following languages:
- JavaScript (Node.js and browsers): polarsource/polar-js
- Python: polarsource/polar-python
Contributions
Our DEVELOPMENT.md file contains everything you need to know to configure your development environment.
[!TIP] Want to get started quickly? Use GitHub Codespaces.
Contributors
Monorepo
♥️🙏 To our pyproject.toml friends: FastAPI, Pydantic, Dramatiq, SQLAlchemy, Githubkit, sse-starlette, Uvicorn, httpx-oauth, jinja, blinker, pyjwt, Sentry + more
♥️🙏 To our package.json friends: Next.js, TanStack Query, tailwindcss, openapi-typescript-codegen, axios, radix-ui, cmdk, framer-motion + more
♥️🙏 To IPinfo that provides IP address data to help us geolocate customers during checkout.
License
Licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0.
Pros
- No fixed monthly costs
- Handles sales tax and VAT
- Quick setup for selling digital products
- Comprehensive API and SDK support
Cons
- Transaction fees can add up
- Limited documentation on advanced features
- Dependency on third-party services
- Potential learning curve for new users
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