# Managed Payments

Sell your digital products globally and let Stripe manage tax, fraud prevention, dispute management and customer support for transactions.

Use Managed Payments to sell digital products such as SaaS, software, and digital content or downloads. The Stripe merchant of record solution handles indirect tax compliance in more than 80 countries, along with fraud prevention, dispute management, and transaction-level customer support.

## Learn more

[How Managed Payments works](https://docs.stripe.com/payments/managed-payments/how-it-works.md): Learn how Managed Payments works.

[Managed Payments eligibility](https://docs.stripe.com/payments/managed-payments/eligibility.md): Learn which products, countries, and integrations are supported.

[Tax coverage with Managed Payments](https://docs.stripe.com/payments/managed-payments/tax-coverage.md): Learn how Managed Payments handles indirect tax compliance in more than 80 countries.

## Use cases

[Build a Checkout integration](https://docs.stripe.com/payments/managed-payments/how-it-works.md): Build a new Checkout integration with Managed Payments enabled.

[Update your Checkout integration](https://docs.stripe.com/payments/managed-payments/update-checkout.md): Update an existing Checkout integration to use Managed Payments.

[Create payment links](https://docs.stripe.com/payments/managed-payments/use-payment-links.md): Create payment links with Managed Payments enabled to start collecting payments for digital products.

[Accept mobile app payments](https://docs.stripe.com/payments/managed-payments/set-up-mobile.md): Use Managed Payments to accept payments from a mobile app.

## Compare Managed Payments with other Stripe products

|                                        | **Managed Payments**                                         | **Other Stripe products**                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| -------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Merchant of record**                 | Stripe                                                       | Your business                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| **Manage indirect tax compliance**     | ✓ Supported 1                                                | Available with [Tax](https://docs.stripe.com/tax.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| **Checkout page compatible with**      | [Checkout](https://docs.stripe.com/payments/checkout.md)     | [Checkout](https://docs.stripe.com/payments/checkout.md), [Elements](https://docs.stripe.com/payments/elements.md), [Hosted Invoice Page](https://docs.stripe.com/invoicing/hosted-invoice-page.md), [Payment Links](https://docs.stripe.com/payment-links.md) |
| **Support for subscriptions**          | Available with [Billing](https://docs.stripe.com/billing.md) | Available with [Billing](https://docs.stripe.com/billing.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| **Protect against fraud**              | ✓ Supported                                                  | Available with [Radar](https://docs.stripe.com/radar.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| **Respond to disputes**                | ✓ Supported                                                  | Available with [Payments](https://docs.stripe.com/disputes/smart-disputes.md)                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| **Transaction-level customer support** | ✓ Supported                                                  | - Unsupported                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| **Support for platforms**              | - Unsupported                                                | Available with [Connect](https://docs.stripe.com/connect.md)                                                                                                                                                                                                   |

1 Managed Payments handles [indirect tax compliance](https://docs.stripe.com/payments/managed-payments/tax-coverage.md) (sales tax, VAT, and GST) on transactions in more than 80 countries.

## Unsupported integrations

Managed Payments doesn’t support:

- Stripe [Connect](https://docs.stripe.com/connect.md) (platform or marketplace integrations)
- Payment flows that use [embeddable web components](https://docs.stripe.com/payments/accept-a-payment.md?payment-ui=elements&api-integration=checkout) or other [advanced integrations](https://docs.stripe.com/payments/advanced.md)
- Attaching [invoice items](https://docs.stripe.com/billing/invoices/subscription.md#adding-upcoming-invoice-items) on a `Customer` object to a Managed Payments subscription
- Generating a [one-off invoice](https://docs.stripe.com/billing/invoices/subscription.md#generating-invoices) on a `Customer` object or for a subscription outside the billing period
- Creating a subscription outside of Checkout or Payment Links
- Third-party tax integrations