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Try demoAikeedo Checkout Now Runs on Stripe
Published Aug 17, 2026 ⦁ 7 min read
Your AI SaaS business, ready by this week!
Try demoPublished Aug 17, 2026 ⦁ 7 min read
We have moved Aikeedo checkout from Lemon Squeezy to Stripe, with Keyplar handling delivery the moment a payment clears. Here is what changes, what does not, and where your existing orders live.
Buying Aikeedo now goes through Stripe.
Until this week, every purchase — the Commercial License, add-ons, support plans — ran through Lemon Squeezy. As of today, checkout is powered by Stripe directly, and delivery is handled by Keyplar, which is our own product.
Nothing about what you are buying has changed. The plans, the prices, and the license terms are exactly the ones we published yesterday. What changed is the machinery underneath the Buy button.
Here is the whole picture.
Click any buy button on aikeedo.com and you land on a Stripe checkout page instead of a Lemon Squeezy one.
You pay. Stripe confirms it. Keyplar picks it up from there and grants everything the purchase entitles you to — your license key, your downloads, your access — and posts it to your account at my.aikeedo.com. You get an email with a sign-in link, and your order is waiting there.
The whole thing is automatic. There is no waiting on a human, no support ticket to open, no "your license will be issued shortly." Payment clears, access exists.
If a payment is refunded, the same pipeline runs in reverse and the access is revoked. That is not a footnote — it is the reason a delivery layer has to be wired into the payment events rather than bolted on beside them.
The part worth explaining is the second half, because it is new.
Keyplar is the delivery layer that runs after Stripe checkout. Stripe handles the payment, and that is the whole of what a payments product is meant to do. Everything after it — issuing a license key, serving a download that cannot be passed around, granting access to a private repository, and withdrawing all of it if a refund lands — is a separate job, and it is not one Stripe sets out to do. Splitting the two means each half is handled by something built for it.
What Keyplar delivers for us, per order:
It also handles the revocation side, which is the part everyone forgets until the first chargeback.
Keyplar is also built by us. If you sell digital products through Stripe and need the delivery half, it is worth a look.
Three reasons, plus the thing that made it possible.
The first is that Lemon Squeezy stopped feeling like a product under active development. We are describing our own experience here rather than making an announcement on someone else's behalf, but over recent months we saw errors turn up more often, customers hitting problems signing in to their accounts, and occasional trouble at checkout itself — with no visible product movement alongside it. Checkout is the one part of the business that has to work every time. Once we were fielding support messages caused by the storefront rather than by our software, staying put stopped being the low-risk option.
The second is All-Access. The Plugin Pass grants every add-on we make, including the ones we have not released yet, for as long as a subscription is active. That is an entitlement that changes shape over time, and it was going to be awkward to manage as a growing pile of individually attached downloads. We needed entitlements to be something we could define once and have granted, extended, and revoked automatically.
The third is control over the flow. Checkout, delivery, and the customer account were three things happening inside someone else's product, shaped by someone else's roadmap. Running checkout on Stripe and delivery on Keyplar means the buying experience is something we can actually change.
What made it practical is that Stripe now sells as merchant of record, the same arrangement we had under Lemon Squeezy. That is a seller's problem, not a buyer's — it decides who is legally the seller and who registers, collects, and remits sales tax across every jurisdiction we sell into. Without it, moving off Lemon Squeezy would have meant taking on tax registration in dozens of countries ourselves, and we would not have done it. If you are weighing the same decision for your own product, we wrote about how taxes work on an AI SaaS platform separately.
For what it is worth, Lemon Squeezy ran our checkout for years and did it well for most of them. This is not a grievance. It is a stack we outgrew, replaced at the point where staying would have cost our customers more than moving.
Your license is unaffected. Perpetual licenses stay perpetual, subscriptions keep their terms, and nothing about what you already own changes because our payment processor did.
Your orders are already in the new portal. Every customer we have had through Lemon Squeezy has been imported into my.aikeedo.com. Sign in with the same email address you used at Lemon Squeezy checkout and your orders, downloads, and license keys are there. There is no migration step for you to perform and no code to redeem.
Your Lemon Squeezy account still works too. Our Lemon Squeezy account is open and we have not set a date to close it. You can sign in at app.lemonsqueezy.com/my-orders for receipts, past invoices, and the original records of purchases you made there.
Worth being precise about one thing: that page is Lemon Squeezy's own customer portal, run by Lemon Squeezy, not by us. We do not operate it and cannot make promises on its behalf. If you need old invoices for your books, saving copies is never a bad idea.
Going forward, my.aikeedo.com is the place to go for anything to do with your product.
We wrote up the portal in more detail in Introducing my.aikeedo.com.
Do I need to do anything? No. If you are an existing customer, sign in at my.aikeedo.com when you next need a download or a key. That is the entire action item.
Will my license key change? No. Existing keys were imported as they are and keep working.
What about receipts and invoices for past purchases? Those live with the processor that handled the payment. Purchases made through Lemon Squeezy keep their receipts in Lemon Squeezy's own customer portal, which they run. Purchases made from today forward are handled by Stripe.
Will I be charged sales tax or VAT? If your location requires it, yes — calculated and shown at checkout before you pay, and itemised on your receipt. That was true under Lemon Squeezy and it is true now. Because we sold through a merchant of record before and still do, the legal seller on your invoice was never Aikeedo and still is not — the only change is which company is named there.
Does this change what I pay? Not by itself. Prices did change yesterday — we restructured onto monthly and annual plans, and wrote up the whole thing here — but that was a separate decision that happened to land the same week. Moving checkout to Stripe changes none of the numbers on the pricing page.
Something is missing from my account. Email sales@aikeedo.com with the email address you bought under and we will sort it out directly. An import of this size is not something we would claim was flawless without hearing from you first.
And if you have not bought yet, the demo is still the fastest way to decide.
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