Since October 2014, we&#x27;ve been building an automatic invoicing solution for businesses throughout the European Union. After a year of customer feedback and a lot of US market demands, we have decided to simplify the payment implementation and integrate the tax calculation feature to the checkout. We aim to automate all billing without needing any developing knowledge.<p>Are you an « early stage » startup and want to get paid faster for your product?
We coded a back-office to collect payments in the easiest and fastest way possible. You just have to choose your options like your revenue model: recurring or one-off payments with coupons or marketplaces. And more specifically the details linked to this revenue model like plans, tax handling, invoicing... Then, we generate a single javascript line of code. Insert this line into your code and you’re done. You can collect payments via your checkout.<p>Are you an expanding startup and want to solve this fucking sales tax problem?
&quot;A State is authorized to require a remote seller to collect sales and use taxes under this Act only if the remote seller has gross annual receipts in total remote sales in the United States in the preceding calendar year exceeding $1,000,000.&quot; - Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.congress.gov&#x2F;bill&#x2F;114th-congress&#x2F;senate-bill&#x2F;698&#x2F;text" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.congress.gov&#x2F;bill&#x2F;114th-congress&#x2F;senate-bill&#x2F;698...</a>
As your business starts expanding and you start selling to multiple states within the United States or to other countries such as the European Union, this is where things get complicated because you have to collect sales tax or VAT (Value Added Tax) from all your customers which differ from state-to-state and country-to-country. Handling taxes and keeping up-to-date with them is very hard, that’s why we provide a tax API and the sales tax calculation feature directly within the checkout.<p>We want to simplify your billing flow.
We provide webhooks, API, widgets that make receipts immediately available via the billing page for your customers.
Our goal is to connect to a maximum number of payment solutions and to open the checkout to third-party applications like accounting &amp; analytics apps.<p>Bonus: With our back-office, you can design your own checkout to fit your identity, magnifying your customers experience and increasing your conversions.<p>In conclusion, Checkout by Octobat is pretty simple:
1- Just connect your payment gateway(s)
2- Select the options you need and style your checkout
3- Paste the single javascript line of code into your code