Quaderno
Cross-border VAT for digital products, without the spreadsheet
Hobby
25 transactions/month, 1 user, 1 jurisdi...
€29
/month
Startup
250 transactions/month with unlimited us...
€49
/month
Business
1,000 transactions/month, unlimited ever...
€99
/month
Growth
2,500 transactions/month; above that, En...
€149
/month
Quaderno watches every sales channel you run — Stripe, Paddle, Shopify, PayPal — calculates the right tax per jurisdiction, issues compliant invoices in the customer's language, and warns you before you cross a registration threshold. It matters once you sell digital products to consumers across EU borders, where VAT is owed in the buyer's country rather than yours. Be clear on the limit: Quaderno prepares and reports, it does not file. Nothing goes to the Estonian e-Tax Board on your behalf.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Sees every sales channel at once — unlike Stripe Tax, which only knows about Stripe
- Threshold alerts warn you before you owe VAT somewhere you are not registered
- Priced per transaction count, so a €500 sale costs the same to process as a €50 one
- Unlimited jurisdictions and integrations from the €49 tier upward
- Issues tax-compliant invoices in the customer's own language and currency
Cons
- Reports only — it does not file anything, least of all an Estonian KMD return via e-MTA
- Punishing economics on low-ticket, high-volume sales; users report paying 1-2% of revenue on €5-10 transactions
- The €29 Hobby tier caps you at one jurisdiction and one integration, which defeats the purpose for most sellers
- No bookkeeping ledger — this sits alongside your accounting, it does not replace it
- Reviewers cite a 3-month cap on report date ranges and fiddly initial setup