Merchant of record
Legal seller in every market, so the liability and the paperwork sit with Nordgate.
100%
of seller-of-record liability carried for them
All customers
Indie game studioGames
How an indie game studio could handle a global launch spike across many countries without standing up a payments team.
Games, shipping globallyIllustrative scenario
Launch, absorbed
a global launch spike without a payments team
The challenge
Without a merchant of record.
A small studio launching its first big title worldwide on a single day may have no payments team, no tax registrations abroad, and no way to absorb a launch-week traffic spike.
Players expect to pay in their own currency with their own methods, and the studio needs to refund and support buyers in markets where it has never operated.
The starting point
- Vendors to manage6+
- Markets they could bill inlimited
- Liability on their team100%
Illustrative snapshot of a typical pre-Nordgate stack.
What Nordgate does
With Nordgate.
Nordgate would carry the launch as merchant of record, scaling checkout through the spike and settling many currencies into one payout the studio can actually read.
Buyer support would handle refunds and questions in players' own languages, so the studio's small team can stay focused on the game during its most important week.
Illustrative settlement over time
indexed, illustrativeSample shape only, not actual figures.
What Nordgate would run
Subscriptions
Recurring billing with automatic retries, so failed cards recover without anyone watching.
Recovered revenuecompounding
Tax & compliance
VAT, GST, and sales tax calculated, collected, and filed in every region they reach.
Every
region they sell in
0
filings on them
Fraud, disputes & support
Real-time scoring, dispute representment, and buyer support in the local language.
Local
buyer support
Their
language
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Tell us what you are launching.
We will map the fastest route to revenue and the markets worth opening first, the same way Nordgate would for a team like yours.
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