Villow

Private early access · Built for Europe

Keep building your product. Not the billing company around it.

Villow is European Merchant of Record infrastructure built for the AI era. Drop our AI-ready API into your editor and ship checkout, subscriptions, usage billing, tax, and payouts — live in minutes, not sprints.

Set up by promptTax & invoices handledYou sell, we're liable

Go live across Europe in minutes. VAT, invoicing, and payouts handled.

Why a Merchant of Record

You ship the product. We're on the hook.

A payment processor moves the money — the tax, invoices, chargebacks, and refunds stay your problem. As Merchant of Record, Villow becomes the seller of record and takes them on.

What Villow takes on

  • checkWe become seller of record and carry the tax liability
  • checkInvoicing & receipts handled
  • checkWe carry chargeback exposure and run the evidence workflow
  • checkRefunds handled
  • checkReserves & reason-coded payout holds on our side
  • checkRecords kept for audit defense

A regular payment processor

  • closeCalculate, collect & remit VAT (OSS / IOSS)
  • closeIssue compliant invoices & receipts
  • closeChargeback & dispute liability
  • closeRefund handling
  • closeFraud exposure, reserves & payout timing
  • closeAudit defense

Subject to legal and tax review by country and product category.

Built for the AI era

Ship checkout in one prompt.

Building your SaaS with Cursor, v0, or Claude? Villow's docs are written to be read by your AI. Point it at our llms.txt, or connect the Villow MCP server, describe what you want to sell, and it wires up checkout, billing, tax, and entitlements for you — usually in under two minutes. No billing sprint, no tax research.

llms.txtOpenAPI 3.1MCP server

"Add Villow to my app so I can sell: checkout, subscriptions, EU VAT and invoices, all handled."

// Villow: checkout, subscriptions, EU VAT & invoices — set up in 1m48s.

AI-ready by design. Your editor does the integration.

Accepting payments is the easy part.

Then you're the billing department. The list only grows:

check_box_outline_blankSubscription state
check_box_outline_blankUsage tracking & metering
check_box_outline_blankCredit balances & quotas
check_box_outline_blankPlan limits and access control
check_box_outline_blankInvoice generation
check_box_outline_blankVAT, OSS and IOSS workflows
check_box_outline_blankRefunds and disputes
check_box_outline_blankPayout reconciliation

The second product you never meant to build.

That whole second product? Villow hands it to you through a single integration.

Billing

Subscription state, plan changes, trials, coupons, cancellations.

Usage

Bill the API calls, tokens, and compute your app reports, including quotas and overages.

Credits

Balances, reservations, hard caps, expiry, invoice lines.

Entitlements

Feature access, plan limits, download access, overrides.

Tax & invoices

VAT workflows, invoice fields, buyer receipts, records.

Disputes

Refund history, access proof, fulfillment evidence.

Payouts

Gross, fees, tax, reserves, refunds, net payout.

Compliance

Product and country checks before checkout.

Raw usage goes in. Revenue comes out.

Charge for usage before it burns you.

AI and API teams need revenue control before expensive usage happens.

  • boltAuthorize usage before tokens, API calls, or compute are consumed
  • boltCheck credits before usage
  • boltEnforce hard quota limits
  • boltSupport overages cleanly
  • boltLink every invoice line to a raw usage event
  • boltShow customers their own usage history
  • boltCall entitlement checks straight from your product
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Built for European tax reality.

check_circleLocal currency and clear tax display
check_circleVAT ID and regional invoice fields where needed
check_circleBuyer receipts and proper invoice records
check_circleCountry-specific product policy
check_circleCompliance checks before checkout creation

Subject to legal and tax review by country and product category.

Is this you?

Good fit

  • checkEuropean SaaS
  • checkAI products with credits, tokens, quota or seat-plus-usage pricing
  • checkAPI businesses with usage-based billing
  • checkSoftware selling subscriptions across Europe
  • checkTeams about to build billing, tax, usage or entitlement logic themselves

Lower fit for the first private beta

  • removeHigh-risk categories (gambling, pharma, etc.)
  • removeSellers who only need a basic payment button
  • removeLarge enterprises with mature in-house billing teams
  • removeProducts needing money movement outside licensed payment infrastructure

Frequently asked

Are you a payment processor? add

No. Villow is the revenue and Merchant of Record layer for software businesses.

Will you act as Merchant of Record? add

Yes — that is the core of the product, subject to legal and tax review by country and product category.

How fast can I integrate? add

Most teams paste our AI-ready API into their editor and have checkout, billing, and tax live in minutes.

Will you support usage-based billing and AI credits? add

Yes. Your product sends usage events; Villow bills them and enforces limits, including credits and overages.

Will you handle VAT and invoices? add

European VAT workflows, invoice fields, and receipts are part of the planned scope, subject to legal and tax review.

What will it cost? add

One simple rate that already includes Merchant of Record, tax, billing, and payouts — no setup fee. Exact pricing is shared with design partners.

When will this be available? add

Villow is in private early access. We are onboarding a small group of design partners first.

Apply for early access

Private design-partner validation for European SaaS, AI, API, and digital-product teams.

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