Reach provides merchant-of-record infrastructure for businesses selling across borders. It handles payments, tax, and compliance inside an existing commerce stack for digital and retail brands selling subscriptions, software, and physical products. Reach states that it supports more than 200 markets, over 130 local currencies, transactions processed locally across more than 70 countries, and more than 40 local payment methods. Its tax service calculates, files, and remits VAT, GST, and sales taxes where customers sell. Reach also assumes fraud liability and manages chargeback relationships and disputes with the merchant’s support. Businesses can connect through APIs for checkout, payments, or reporting, or use integrations with services including Adyen, Chargebee, Checkout.com, PayPal, Recurly, Shopify, Stripe, and Worldpay. Merchants can keep existing payment providers, billing tools, checkout, and commerce platforms. Transaction data remains the merchant’s and can connect with existing systems. Pricing is available on request.
Who it is for
Reach is aimed at digital and retail brands handling cross-border subscriptions, software, or physical products. It suits merchants wanting tax, payment, fraud, and dispute handling added to an existing commerce setup.
What is good
- Supports more than 200 markets
- Offers over 130 local currencies
- Calculates, files, and remits sales taxes
- Assumes fraud liability and handles disputes
- Provides APIs and pre-built integrations
What to know first
- Pricing is available on request
- Existing PSP rate terms are specified only for listed markets
- No security certification is specified
Verdict
Reach centralizes merchant-of-record responsibilities while allowing merchants to retain their existing commerce stack. Its market, currency, tax, and payment coverage should fit businesses expanding across borders.
Compared on merchant of record software
- Tax handling
- full
- Subscription billing
- Yes
- Checkout options
- multi-channel
