<story><title>Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc</title><url>https://fruits.de/en</url><text>Hi HN!&lt;p&gt;Whilst trying to build an online community for content creators, we failed!
Taking the learnings and stripping down our product to a true MVP, we now started working on &amp;quot;fruits&amp;quot;, which allows creators to sell files such as ebooks, designs, checklists, music and online coachings online in less than two minutes.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fruits.de&amp;#x2F;en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fruits.de&amp;#x2F;en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It works as simple as this:&lt;p&gt;1. upload a file at &amp;quot;fruits&amp;quot; &amp;amp; set a price
2. you will receive your individual fruits-sales-link
3. share the link wherever your customers are (e.g. website, newsletter, social media)&lt;p&gt;In addition, we also take care of the tedious office work such as invoicing and VAT collection for you, and this is completely automated.&lt;p&gt;What do you think? We are looking forward to your feedback!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>101008</author><text>I am working on a SaaS product with a friend that will be mostly a B2B (although it can work as B2C too) and besides all the tech, what I am afraid mostly is all the tax&amp;#x2F;money&amp;#x2F;stuff.&lt;p&gt;I am not from Europe neither USA - I&amp;#x27;d like only to get paid monthly for the service I provide. Is it difficult? If anyone can give some advice I&amp;#x27;d be grateful.</text></item><item><author>mstolpm</author><text>Congrats on your launch! But honestly, your site gives me some huge red flags regarding your service:&lt;p&gt;You don&amp;#x27;t have a legally valid &amp;quot;Impressum&amp;quot; on fruits.de: It points to fanbase.com and that one isn&amp;#x27;t even mentioning fruits.de. So, as a German startup, it seems you&amp;#x27;re at least bending German and EU law by not providing the information necessary for proving services on the domain fruits.de. And as a result, as a potential user, I can&amp;#x27;t trust you with my business.&lt;p&gt;Moreover, I couldn&amp;#x27;t find information about your &amp;quot;sales tax&amp;quot; claim. You know better than me that selling digital products in the EU and across borders can be kind of tricky, depending on what you are selling (e.g. ebook vs software), if you&amp;#x27;re selling B2B or B2C, and depending on the origin of your customer. As a user, I&amp;#x27;d need much more information about how you handle this and the bookkeeping you mentioned, but it somehow looks like you&amp;#x27;re relying on PayPal as the payment gateway and are not handling sales tax &amp;#x2F; USt by yourself?&lt;p&gt;And no: As someone looking for a simple solution to sell my digital products, I don&amp;#x27;t want do book a consultation for answers to the questions above.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>helen_fruits</author><text>&amp;gt; what I am afraid mostly is all the tax&amp;#x2F;money&amp;#x2F;stuff.&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;At fruits, we are automatically handling all the taxes &amp;amp; invoicing for you - internationally &amp;amp; correctly, so you don&amp;#x27;t have to be afraid of making illegal billing mistakes. It&amp;#x27;s all handled for you, you and your customers automatically receive an automated invoice &amp;#x2F; billing overview. :-)</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc</title><url>https://fruits.de/en</url><text>Hi HN!&lt;p&gt;Whilst trying to build an online community for content creators, we failed!
Taking the learnings and stripping down our product to a true MVP, we now started working on &amp;quot;fruits&amp;quot;, which allows creators to sell files such as ebooks, designs, checklists, music and online coachings online in less than two minutes.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fruits.de&amp;#x2F;en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fruits.de&amp;#x2F;en&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It works as simple as this:&lt;p&gt;1. upload a file at &amp;quot;fruits&amp;quot; &amp;amp; set a price
2. you will receive your individual fruits-sales-link
3. share the link wherever your customers are (e.g. website, newsletter, social media)&lt;p&gt;In addition, we also take care of the tedious office work such as invoicing and VAT collection for you, and this is completely automated.&lt;p&gt;What do you think? We are looking forward to your feedback!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>101008</author><text>I am working on a SaaS product with a friend that will be mostly a B2B (although it can work as B2C too) and besides all the tech, what I am afraid mostly is all the tax&amp;#x2F;money&amp;#x2F;stuff.&lt;p&gt;I am not from Europe neither USA - I&amp;#x27;d like only to get paid monthly for the service I provide. Is it difficult? If anyone can give some advice I&amp;#x27;d be grateful.</text></item><item><author>mstolpm</author><text>Congrats on your launch! But honestly, your site gives me some huge red flags regarding your service:&lt;p&gt;You don&amp;#x27;t have a legally valid &amp;quot;Impressum&amp;quot; on fruits.de: It points to fanbase.com and that one isn&amp;#x27;t even mentioning fruits.de. So, as a German startup, it seems you&amp;#x27;re at least bending German and EU law by not providing the information necessary for proving services on the domain fruits.de. And as a result, as a potential user, I can&amp;#x27;t trust you with my business.&lt;p&gt;Moreover, I couldn&amp;#x27;t find information about your &amp;quot;sales tax&amp;quot; claim. You know better than me that selling digital products in the EU and across borders can be kind of tricky, depending on what you are selling (e.g. ebook vs software), if you&amp;#x27;re selling B2B or B2C, and depending on the origin of your customer. As a user, I&amp;#x27;d need much more information about how you handle this and the bookkeeping you mentioned, but it somehow looks like you&amp;#x27;re relying on PayPal as the payment gateway and are not handling sales tax &amp;#x2F; USt by yourself?&lt;p&gt;And no: As someone looking for a simple solution to sell my digital products, I don&amp;#x27;t want do book a consultation for answers to the questions above.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bityard</author><text>&amp;gt; what I am afraid mostly is all the tax&amp;#x2F;money&amp;#x2F;stuff&lt;p&gt;You shouldn&amp;#x27;t be afraid, you should pay a professional CPA and&amp;#x2F;or tax accountant to take care of all of that stuff for you.&lt;p&gt;You wouldn&amp;#x27;t draft your own legal documents (I hope), correct? It&amp;#x27;s no different on the money side of things.</text></comment>