Quaderno

About Quaderno

Quaderno meters transactions rather than jurisdictions or filings, and it is the only one of the category's self-serve options whose bill is published end to end. Five tiers: Hobby at $29/month covers 25 transactions with one user, one jurisdiction and one integration; Startup at $49 raises the allowance to 250 transactions and, more importantly, removes the user, jurisdiction and integration caps entirely; Business at $99 covers 1,000; Growth at $149 covers 2,500; anything above that is Enterprise and quoted. That Hobby-to-Startup step is where the product actually begins, since the $29 tier is a single-channel trial in disguise. One definition deserves attention before you size a plan: a transaction is any sale, refund or purchase recorded in the app, so refund-heavy or high-volume low-ticket sellers burn allowance faster than revenue alone predicts. Functionally the platform tracks economic nexus and VAT/GST thresholds in real time, applies local rates across more than 12,000 jurisdictions, files automatically or hands you Quaderno Reports to file yourself, embeds tax-compliant checkout, and issues invoices translated into the buyer's language and currency, invoicing being a real differentiator against US-first rivals. Integrations lean commerce and creator economy: Stripe, PayPal, Shopify, WooCommerce, GoCardless and Kajabi, plus a documented developer API and spreadsheet upload. Founded in 2014 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and bootstrapped for roughly a decade, Quaderno was acquired by Norwegian software group Visma in 2023. Seven-day free trial, no card required.

Pricing

Model

Paid

Starting price

$29/mo

Notes

Fully published tiers metered on transactions: Hobby $29/mo (25 transactions, 1 user, 1 jurisdiction, 1 integration); Startup $49/mo (250 transactions, unlimited users/jurisdictions/integrations); Business $99/mo (1,000 transactions); Growth $149/mo (2,500 transactions); Enterprise custom above 2,500/mo. A transaction is defined as any sale, refund or purchase recorded in the app, so refunds consume allowance. 7-day free trial, no credit card required.

Key Features

• Transaction-metered pricing published in full across five tiers from $29/mo
• Real-time economic nexus and VAT/GST threshold tracking with registration alerts
• Automatic rate application across 12,000+ tax jurisdictions worldwide
• Automatic filing or self-managed returns via Quaderno Reports
• Localized invoicing translated into the customer's language and currency
• Tax-compliant embedded checkout flows
• Integrations with Stripe, PayPal, Shopify, WooCommerce, GoCardless and Kajabi, plus a developer API and spreadsheet upload

Platforms

• Web
• API

Alternatives to Quaderno

• Anrok
• Numeral
• Avalara
• Stripe Tax
• Paddle