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Quaderno
Company blog · quaderno.io/blog · on HN as polimorficobusinessstartups
Quaderno is the company blog at quaderno.io, writing about business and startups. Since 2014, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “Quaderno: Automated Billing and Tax Handling”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (27) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mention Quaderno as an invoicing and sales tax tool that plugs into Stripe, mainly for EU VAT handling. The linked posts cover VAT, sales tax and invoicing rules for SaaS and subscriptions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 27 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Automate sales tax, VAT, and GST compliance in 150+ countries with Quaderno, the tax compliance software built for SaaS, e-commerce, and digital platforms.
Most-linked posts?
- /6 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2015-09-17
- /4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-01-21
- Quaderno: Automated Billing and Tax Handling3 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2015-02-09
- Quaderno.js makes your Stripe subscriptions to comply the EU VAT MOSS rules2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-12-18
- /resources/eu-vat-guide/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-30
What Hacker News says?
In short, it’s painful :) Looking into a Stripe plugin like https://www.quaderno.io/ I really enjoy using Stripe, and their support is great, but sales tax compliance makes me a bit jealous of those using Paddle.
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on “The architecture behind a one-person tech startup”Submitted Show HN: Quaderno.io – Invoicing for Stripe as a story · 69 points
HN discussionNope, it's called freedom! https://www.quora.com/Are-US-companies-not-required-by-law-t... https://quaderno.io/blog/really-need-adjust-invoicing-countr...
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on “I Can’t Stop Winning”Submitted Quaderno.js makes your Stripe subscriptions to comply the EU VAT MOSS rules as a story · 48 points
HN discussionHave a look at https://quaderno.io/ for handling the EU VAT stuff. I actually don't use it, but I remember that they provided a checkout experience similar to Stripe.
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on “Ask HN: Describe your first enterprise sale”Submitted Show HN: The Ultimate Guide to EU VAT MOSS (infography) as a story · 17 points
HN discussionYes. I've been researching this in recent weeks, and have found several operators that build on top of Stripe and PayPal, in various ways, to handle the VATMOSS burden. Without offering any recommendation for them, here are two I've investigated: * https://www.taxamo.com/ * https://quaderno.io/
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on “The toxic side of free – how I lost the love for my side project (part 4)”Submitted Is Hacker News a Good Platform to Launch Your Product? as a story · 16 points
HN discussionEU SaaS founder here. It really is not as complicated as people are making it out to be, at least for digital services (I have no experience with physical products). Use a service like Quaderno https://quaderno.io for the invoicing, they plug into Stripe. Once you get that set up it's not a big issue.
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on “Going Global with Your Startup”Submitted How a silly landing brought us more traffic as a story · 11 points
HN discussionWe (SaaS, https://geocoder.opencagedata.com/ ) use https://quaderno.io/ plus their Stripe connector which handles inter-european VAT well. It takes care of invoice PDF generation, UI for users to change their billing details, list of past invoices etc.
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on “Hidden work when launching a SaaS”Submitted Quaderno: Automated Billing and Tax Handling as a story · 9 points
HN discussionYou don't need to have so many subscription plans to deal with this issue. I built https://quaderno.io to deal with this mess. Let me know if you have any questions. Happy to help!
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on “Lessons Learned with Stripe Subscriptions”Submitted Show HN: A tax management service for platforms and marketplaces as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI recommend https://quaderno.io/ used them with four different kinds of business running through Stripe including a SaaS doing > $1 million ARR. Works great and their customer support is excellent.
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on “Lessons Learned with Stripe Subscriptions”Submitted Quaderno – Stripe VAT subscriptions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOne word of caution: at least if you're based in the EU, this is basically impossible to do legally correctly by yourself globally unless you spend many thousands of dollars VAT-registering yourself in all kinds of places around the world and knowing global tax laws to make sure you get everything right, since electronically delivered goods (like your SaaS) are taxed in the country of the recipient of the services.…
Comment linking /resources/eu-vat-guide/
on “Tools and Services I Use to Run My SaaS”Submitted Tax Debate: Should Morals Come into It? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI found the VAT place of supply rules to be inconvenient but reasonably straightforward to comply with. Several billing platforms will collect VAT across the EU on your behalf, or there are third-party solutions that will integrate with your own payment gateway. I have no idea what the situation is in Poland, but there's no such thing as a "felony" in my country; an honest mistake on my tax return is an honest mista…
Comment linking /resources/eu-vat-guide/
on “Ask HN: Anyone doing business using Estonian e-residency?”Submitted Quaderno: Automated Billing and Tax Handling as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI built Quaderno to deal with the VATMOSS nightmare on Stripe. More information at https://quaderno.io/integrations/stripe/ . Let me know if you have any questions. Glad to help.
Comment linking /integrations/stripe/
on “Stripe Acquires Touchtech”Hey fellas, we've being building a solution to this http://quaderno.io/stripe-vat-invoicing/ So far, VAT management for Stripe Drop me a line in case you need further info or help hello@quaderno.io
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on “EU’s New VAT Rules Could Create a Mess for Startups”That is a good question that you should discuss with your tax accountant :) I don’t know about the specifics of how payment works on patreon, but there are services that help with the tax issue. Quaderno https://www.quaderno.io/ is one that we have used for selling (remote) trainings. It ties into stripe, so that’s fairly simple to set up. Keep in mind that if you have to do the VAT dance, you’ll most likely need to…
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on “Total number of Brave Browser Publishers”If you're using Stripe or Paypal, you can use Quaderno ( https://quaderno.io ). We're #VATMOSS complaint and help you to calculate VAT rates and track all the customer location evidences. Let me know if you have any questions.
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on “Patreon to Europe on #VATMOSS: “Not our problem, mate.””Not really, every business with European based customers needs to comply with EU vat https://quaderno.io/blog/is-your-business-ready-for-the-new-...
Comment linking /blog/is-your-business-ready-for-the-new-eu-2015-vat-rules/
on “Patreon to Europe on #VATMOSS: “Not our problem, mate.””All I know is from https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2014/11/25/how-small-com... : http://rachelandrew.github.io/eu-vat/third-parties.html https://www.taxamo.com/ https://quaderno.io/
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on “Ask HN: Stripe or Braintree?”Much of this (as admitted in the tweet thread) is due to the VAT changes, I don't think it is wise to blame this on Brexit and move on as it ignores the growing problem. The only connection Brexit has to this is timing, these VAT changes are EU wide and will rolled out to EU member states this year. Foreign companies will need to charge VAT at the member states rate (some have multiple) and register for VAT in the E…
Comment linking /blog/digital-taxes-around-world-know-new-tax-rules/
on “BrexitImpacts: Companies charging more, or stopping sales because of Brexit”Hi there! I'm Carlos, founder of Quaderno ( https://quaderno.io ). Thanks for the referral, Keats. I built Quaderno two years ago because I was tired to deal with payments, invoicing, accounting, and tax rules (specially now when there are more and more digital taxes worldwide) in my past projects. My goal was to automate the whole accounting process for any SaaS. Of course you can use your own billing system, but a…
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on “Ask HN: How do you deal with recurring payments?”You can use Quaderno for that https://quaderno.io/stripe-vat-subscriptions/
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on “Ask HN: How do you deal with recurring payments?”There are existing solutions for this such as https://quaderno.io/stripe-vat-subscriptions/
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on “Ask HN: How do you deal with recurring payments?”
