How to switch from Lemon Squeezy to SaySo

The move itself is mostly copying and pasting. The part that takes real thought is what you're giving up by leaving a merchant of record, so I've put that right up front.

What moves and what doesn't

Before you start

Sales tax becomes yours. Lemon Squeezy is a merchant of record, so it handles sales tax and VAT on your sales. SaySo isn't. SaySo doesn't calculate or add sales tax or VAT at checkout, so working out and paying what you owe is on you. If you sell to buyers around the world, this is the decision to make first. (It's also the honest reason some sellers happily stay on Lemon Squeezy.)

You need your own Stripe account for taking payments. On Lemon Squeezy, buyers pay Lemon Squeezy and it pays you out. On SaySo, buyers pay straight into your own Stripe account. Creating one is free, and SaySo walks you through it.

Your Lemon Squeezy balance pays out on its schedule. Leave your Lemon Squeezy store open until your last payout has landed.

If you send newsletters from Lemon Squeezy, you'll want an email service of your own. SaySo doesn't send newsletters. It adds buyers to Bento, Kit, beehiiv, MailerLite, ActiveCampaign or Flodesk, and you send from there.

Step 1: Export everything from Lemon Squeezy first

Do this before you change anything, so you have a copy of it all.

1. 1Your orders. Go to the Orders page and click Export. Lemon Squeezy emails the CSV to the store owner's email address. It has each buyer's name, email, product and order total.
2. 2Your email subscribers. In Lemon Squeezy's email section, request an export of your subscribers. You'll get an email with a download link when it's ready.
3. 3Your products. Copy each product's name, description, price, variants and discount codes into a doc. Gather your original files too. If the only copy of a file is on Lemon Squeezy, download it now.

Step 2: Set up SaySo

1. 1Start your SaySo membership at getsayso.io. It begins with a 7-day free trial, card up front, and nothing is charged until day eight.
2. 2Add your business details. Buyers can't pay until these are in.
3. 3Connect Stripe from Getting started. Sign in if you already have Stripe, or create an account on Stripe's page.
4. 4Leave your store on Coming soon while you build, so nobody can buy before you're ready.

Step 3: Rebuild your products

This is where Claude saves you the most time. Connect Claude to your store, paste in a product's Lemon Squeezy description, and ask it to make a SaySo draft with the same name, description and price. It creates the draft and you check it over.

Then, for each product:

1. 1Open the Files tab and upload the files buyers get. Claude can't upload files for you, so this part is yours.
2. 2If a product had variants on Lemon Squeezy, make each one its own product in SaySo, or pick the one you want to keep.
3. 3Recreate your discount codes. If Claude creates one for you, you'll get an approval link to check before it goes live.
4. 4Add an order bump, upsell or downsell if you'd like one.

Step 4: Move your email list

The subscriber export has a status column, and it's the one to sort by. Import only the people marked subscribed. Leave out anyone marked unsubscribed, bounced, invalid_email, archived or requires_verification, which means they haven't confirmed their signup yet.

Your orders export is a list of buyers, not a list of people who agreed to marketing emails, so check that before you import anyone from it.

Then connect your email service to SaySo under Settings › Email list. New buyers join your list from then on.

Step 5: Test a purchase

Open the More menu next to a published product and choose Test purchase. You go through checkout without a card, get the receipt, land on the download page and join your own email list, just like a buyer. Nothing is charged and it never counts as a sale.

Step 6: Open your store and point your links at it

1. 1Switch your store to Open for sales.
2. 2Update every link that points at Lemon Squeezy: your link in bio, website buttons, email sequences and pinned posts.
3. 3If you run ads, add your Meta Pixel and Google Analytics IDs in SaySo so your tracking carries on.
4. 4Tell your list where to find you now.

Step 7: Wind down Lemon Squeezy gently

There's no rush to close your Lemon Squeezy store. Past buyers still get their downloads there, and your balance still has to pay out. Before you unpublish or delete anything, check what Lemon Squeezy says happens to buyer access, so nobody loses something they paid for.

If you sell subscriptions on Lemon Squeezy

Active subscriptions can't come with you. Lemon Squeezy is the merchant of record, so your subscribers' payments run through Lemon Squeezy, and I couldn't find a way in Lemon Squeezy's docs to move a running subscription to another platform.

Here's the gentlest way I know to handle it:

1. 1Set up the same plan in SaySo, with Every month or Every year pricing.
2. 2Email your subscribers before their next billing date. Tell them where the plan lives now and give them the new link.
3. 3Ask them to cancel on Lemon Squeezy and join on SaySo when their current period runs out, so nobody pays twice.
4. 4If you'd like to say thank you for the hassle, SaySo lets you offer a cheaper first payment.

Some subscribers won't make the move. If subscriptions are most of your income, or you sell software that depends on license keys, you might move your one-time products first and leave the rest where it is for now.

FAQ

Can SaySo import my Lemon Squeezy products for me? Not automatically. Connect Claude, paste in your descriptions, and Claude can create the drafts. You upload the files yourself.

Will my Lemon Squeezy links redirect to SaySo? No. Lemon Squeezy product links keep pointing at Lemon Squeezy, so update them wherever you've shared them.

Can my past Lemon Squeezy buyers download from SaySo? Not their old purchases. They keep getting those through Lemon Squeezy, which is a good reason to leave your store open for a while.

Do I need a Stripe account? Yes. Buyers pay into your own Stripe account, and SaySo never holds your money. If you don't have one, you can create it while you connect.

What happens to sales tax and VAT? On Lemon Squeezy, Lemon Squeezy handles it as merchant of record. On SaySo, you're the seller, so tax is yours to manage. SaySo doesn't calculate or add it at checkout.

Can I still take PayPal? Not on SaySo yet. SaySo works with Stripe only.

Is it worth switching? That depends on what you sell and how much. I've put the numbers side by side in SaySo vs Lemon Squeezy.

Sources

All checked October 29, 2026.

• Lemon Squeezy's Exporting Orders: the Export button and the CSV emailed to the store owner
• Lemon Squeezy's Exporting Subscribers: the subscriber CSV and what each status means
• Lemon Squeezy as merchant of record: who handles tax on your sales
• Getting paid on Lemon Squeezy: how payouts work
• SaySo's help center: Add your first product, Upload the files buyers download, Connect Stripe to get paid, Connect your email service, Test your store before you open, Check what your Claude can change