“If a customer looks at their bank statement, And you are buying a product from a company that uses a third party merchant of record. They're not going to see the company's name on their bank statement. They're going to see paddle, or they're going to see gum road, or they're going to see lemon squeezy, the name of the third party merchant of record. And a lot of times that causes customers to kind of freak out and say, why am I getting charged by this business?”
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