Description
Paddle – Payment Gateway Plugin for Acelle
Paddle – Payment Gateway Plugin for Acelle Accept global card payments and recurring subscriptions through Paddle without writing a single line of webhook code. Drop-in plugin for Acelle Mail SaaS billing. Paddle handles tax, hosted checkout, dunning, and renewals. You just collect the payout.
Why Paddle?
- Sales tax / VAT / GST: Paddle calculates, collects, and remits in 200+ jurisdictions for you.
- PCI / SCA / 3DS: Paddle’s hosted checkout is fully compliant; you never touch card data.
- Dunning + retries: Paddle’s smart-retry logic recovers failed renewals automatically.
- Refunds, chargebacks, fraud: Paddle handles disputes; you don’t field bank calls.
- Local payment methods: Cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, iDEAL, Alipay — Paddle adds them, you get them for free.
Feature highlights
- ✅ Drop-in installation — upload the ZIP through Acelle’s standard plugin installer; activate with one click
- ✅ Sandbox + Production environments selectable per gateway
- ✅ Paddle Billing API — current generation, not Paddle Classic (see compatibility note below)
- ✅ Recurring subscriptions with renewal sync, cancellation sync, plan-change sync
- ✅ One-off transactions also supported
- ✅ Plan ↔ Paddle Price mapping through Acelle’s existing Remote Plan Mapping screen
- ✅ Saved payment-method display at customer checkout (card brand + last 4)
- ✅ Connection test on save — if your API key is wrong, you find out before any customer hits checkout
- ✅ Multi-tenant friendly — each Acelle tenant can configure its own Paddle account
- ✅ Disable without uninstall — flip the plugin to inactive and Paddle disappears from the gateway picker; existing rows are preserved
- ✅ Translated — English included; ships with translation hooks so your installed Acelle language packs (FR, DE, ES, ZH, …) auto-cover the new strings
