RepoAccess's answer:
Two groups solve this, and the differences are not the same in each.
The billing platforms - Polar, Dodo Payments, GitHub Sponsors, Anystack,
GitPaywall - hand you a checkout and take a percentage of every sale forever.
They are also Stripe-bound, which locks out sellers across much of the CIS,
MENA, Africa and Asia. RepoAccess inverts that: you keep your provider, your
margins and your region, and the grant logic runs on your own infrastructure.
The self-hosted tools - HonorBox, Pay2Clone, SellRepo, Lemonrepo - share that
premise, so the differences are narrower and more concrete. Provider coverage:
HonorBox is Stripe-only, Lemonrepo is a Lemon Squeezy template; RepoAccess
ships Stripe in the open-source core and adds Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, Gumroad,
Razorpay and Telegram Stars.
Buyer identity: no "Login with GitHub" - GitHub's
own invitation is the check, so nothing extra holds your buyers' accounts.
And what a refund actually does: revocation is per product rather than per
person, pending invitations are cancelled, membership is reconciled against
live GitHub state rather than a local record, and chargebacks follow a
separate path that never restores access on its own.
The core is open source, so the code holding your GitHub credentials is code
you can read before you run it.
CodeSandbox
replit
CodePen
JSFiddle
Glitch
GitHub Codespaces
vscode.dev
Polar.sh
GitHub Sponsors
Repobear
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