Anyway

Anyway is an agent-ready Merchant of Record and global payments platform for developers, independent teams, SaaS businesses, API companies, and AI-native products. It helps builders sell globally without assembling and maintaining a fragmented payments stack. Teams can create a product, set a price, and publish a hosted payment link on a website, README, product page, or direct message, without building a custom checkout from scratch.

As the Merchant of Record, Anyway manages the operational work behind international digital sales. The platform handles payment processing, recurring subscriptions, sales tax, VAT, GST, compliant invoices, refunds, and net payouts. This gives small teams a simpler way to accept payments from customers in different markets while reducing the engineering and administrative overhead normally associated with billing and tax compliance.

Anyway is designed for commerce involving both people and software agents. Human customers and AI agents can purchase through the same checkout flow. For agent builders, the platform also supports funded agent wallets, programmable spending limits, pay-per-call access to APIs, and an auditable trace for every transaction. These controls let developers give agents access to paid services while keeping spending visible and bounded.

A typical workflow is straightforward: create a product, define the price, publish the payment link, and start accepting purchases. Anyway then supports the billing, compliance, invoicing, and payout lifecycle behind that purchase. This makes it useful for indie founders, developer-tool companies, AI startups, SaaS teams, and API businesses that want to validate or monetize an offering without spending weeks integrating separate payment, subscription, tax, and invoicing systems.

By bringing checkout, subscriptions, global tax handling, invoices, payouts, agent wallets, and machine-to-machine commerce into one platform, Anyway gives technical teams a faster path from shipping a product to collecting revenue. The focus is practical: fewer integrations to manage, a consistent purchase experience, and infrastructure that can support both conventional online customers and emerging agent-driven transactions.

What problem it solves

Developers and small teams often need to assemble checkout, subscriptions, tax compliance, invoicing, refunds, and global payouts from several providers. Anyway combines these functions in one Merchant of Record platform and also supports controlled payments by AI agents.

Alternatives & competitors

Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, Stripe Billing, Polar, Dodo Payments