Quaderno
Automates sales tax, VAT and GST calculation, invoicing and filing for digital businesses selling worldwide.
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Description
If you sell a digital product or subscription online, the tax you owe changes depending on which country or state the buyer is in — a tangle of over 12,000 different local rules that no human should try to track by hand. Quaderno is a service that quietly handles that in the background: it calculates the right tax on every sale, sends a properly localized invoice, and tells you when you've crossed a threshold that means you need to register somewhere new.
Concretely, Quaderno connects to Stripe, Shopify, WooCommerce and PayPal, calculates sales tax/VAT/GST across 12,000+ jurisdictions in real time, generates compliant invoices in the customer's local language and currency, and produces the reports you (or your accountant) need to actually file. It's been part of the Visma group (a large European software conglomerate) since 2023 but still runs as an independent, self-serve product with transparent published pricing — a five-tier plan structure from $29 to $149/month based on transaction volume, plus a custom enterprise tier, all with a 7-day free trial.
💬 Our review
The short version: Quaderno is a good fit if you want straightforward, transparently-priced tax automation for a digital business selling internationally, and its acquisition by Visma actually works in its favor — it gets the stability of a larger parent without losing its independent self-serve pricing page.
The standout strength versus category peers like Anrok or Kintsugi is that Quaderno publishes real prices you can compare without a sales call, and it's been doing this specifically for digital-goods/SaaS sellers for years, so the jurisdiction coverage (12,000+) and invoice localization are mature, not a new bolt-on feature.
The honest caveat: Quaderno focuses on calculation, invoicing and reporting — for actual VAT registration and return filing in complex jurisdictions, some users still need a specialist service (or a tool like Marosa/Anrok that goes further into filing automation). It's also priced per transaction volume, so a very high-volume marketplace may find a flat-fee competitor cheaper at scale.
💰 Pricing
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Hobby 29$/mois (25 transactions), Startup 49$/mois, Business 99$/mois (le plus populaire), Growth 149$/mois (2500 transactions), Enterprise sur devis. Essai gratuit 7 jours.
Pros
Tarification publiée et transparente, comparable sans appel commercial
Couvre 12 000+ juridictions fiscales avec calcul en temps réel
Facturation automatique localisée (langue et devise du client)
Produit mature et indépendant malgré le rachat par le groupe Visma en 2023
Cons
Se concentre sur le calcul/la facturation, moins sur l'immatriculation et le dépôt de déclarations complexes
Tarifs basés sur le volume de transactions — peut coûter cher à très grande échelle
Moins spécialisé SaaS pur que certains concurrents plus récents