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Zoneless is an open-source alternative to Stripe Connect for payouts, offering minimal fees and easy integration for developers.

Hey, I&#x27;m Ben. I built Zoneless because I was paying so much to use Stripe Connect on my own marketplace. The fees were really, really bad, and it was also limiting in terms of the seller countries I could onboard. To give you an idea, I was paying around $9,000 per month in fees just to run payouts. Using Zoneless, that cost goes down to around $6.<p>I&#x27;ve been using it personally for the past few months, and onboarded 5,000+ sellers and done 3,000+ payouts. 74% of new sellers on my marketplace choose Zoneless over Stripe, which is really interesting. I appreciate crypto and stablecoins are a bit of a touchy subject, but for this use case of sending global payouts cheaply, it&#x27;s perfect.<p>The project is open source with an Apache 2.0 licence, which means there&#x27;s the benefit of no lock-in and no risk of your account getting flagged or shut down. It also has an almost identical API and dashboard to Stripe.<p>Would love to hear any feedback you may have in the comments.
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# Zoneless | Open-Source Stripe Connect Alternative Source: [https://zoneless.com/](https://zoneless.com/) ## Open\-source payouts Pay sellers and creators anywhere, without fees\. Add Zoneless alongside Stripe or PayPal with one prompt\. ## Your own Stripe It's yours\. No, really\. Try it yourself in test mode ## Fees, stacked up 1,000 payouts a month, $50 each, for a year\. ### Calculate your savings See how much you could save each year Monthly active account payouts1,000 1010,000 International sellers50% 0%100% Stripe: $1\.50/payout \+ ~0\.75% cross\-border \+ ~1% FX\. PayPal: 2% \(cap $20\) \+ 4% FX\. Stripe Connect$40\.5k/yr PayPal Payouts$19\.5k/yr Zoneless~$26/yr ## nocryptobullsh![](https://zoneless.com/assets/images/doodles/star-outline.png) ## Switch from Stripe Same API you already know\. ``` // import Stripe from 'stripe';// const client = new Stripe('sk_live_...'); const account = await client.accounts.create({type: 'express',country: 'US',email: '[email protected]',});await client.transfers.create({amount: 1000,currency: 'usdc',destination: account.id,}); ``` ## Live in production Used by a couple of cool companies\. ## And all this goodness ### Pay anyone anywhere From the North Pole to North Yorkshire\. ### Supports any business We don't judge, all companies welcome\. ### Open source Apache 2\.0, to be precise\. View the code\. ### Made by people who care Real support from marketplace operators\. ## One prompt to start Changing payout providers is hard \(and scary\)\. We made it easy\. Add Zoneless as a payout option, without touching your existing setup\. ## More to explore Learn about Zoneless and open\-source payments\.

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